How to calculate percentages is easier than you think. Quick, what’s 36% of 25? Or how about 250% of 20? Learn a quick and dirty tip to help you calculate all of those pesky percentages in your head.

Let's face it: Even the best budgets can't always predict your actual expenses. Things happen. Unexpected costs arise. That's life. That's why it's so useful to review your budget after a project is ...

Percentages are a way of expressing proportion. Proportion tells you how much of one thing there is in relation to the whole. 'Per cent' means ‘out of 100’ and a percentage is written as a number with ...

For anyone who is interested in analyzing and assessing a company's performance, calculating percentages of total revenues -- or using the percentages that have been calculated for you -- can be very ...

This post explains how to calculate Weighted Average in Excel with percentages. In a standard arithmetic average where the sum of values is divided by the number of values, each data value is treated ...

One way to find a percentage of an amount is to use 1%, 10% and 50% as building blocks. 1%, 10% and 50% can be used as building blocks for working out percentages in your head. 1% is 1⁄100. Work out 1 ...