Excel

So far this class has taught me a great deal about excel. Coming into the class I barely knew the basics of excel, but so far this semester I have become pretty sufficient at operating excel. Excel can be used for an endless amount of different things, from planning a vacation, as we learned last week, to just simply managing a budget. Excel can be an extremely useful tool in life.

Even though at the moment I don't have the biggest need to use excel other than for completing my CSC 175 assignments, there are plenty of things I could use it for. One of the best things I could think of using excel for, would be to make myself a schedule of all my classes and also my work hours. I would be able to just check my schedule and figure out when would be the best time to do my homework and when the best time just to relax would be. And because of this class, I would also be able to add different styles and formats to make each time block on my schedule distinguishable from each other. Other reasons I might use excel for my personal use is for creating a table for my budget. I can include school expenses, expenses for gas and the  amount of money I make a week for working. Clearly as a student I wouldn't have a lot to include in the budget but I feel like making one, would be a great way for me to monitor my expenses and maybe even devise a plan to save money.

I will however be using excel a lot in the future. I am majoring in finance and whatever job I end up with, I am sure using excel will be a big part of my job. It is likely that I will be creating budget spreadsheets and using excel to input other types of financial information. There are also many different ways that excel can be used to help control financial data to help with investments. So as I progress through college and into my future field, I am sure that I will only use excel more and more. The most important part for me is to not lose my knowledge about excel in the time between this class and my future job, especially if I am not required to use it a lot in my other classes. But I have a feeling that I will be using it some journey to receiving a finance degree and hopefully it is enough to keep me sharp enough on all the ins and outs of excel for my future job.