If my figure in Column A2 is $53,000 for annual sales and my column A$ is
$75,000 for the budget amount, how to calculate the percentage of the sales
amount to the budget?

Hi,
I assume that the 75000 are in cell A3, so in cell A4 enter

=A2/A3
format as %

or if you don't want to format as % use

=A2/A3*100

"rpi929" wrote:

If my figure in Column A2 is $53,000 for annual sales and my column A$ is
$75,000 for the budget amount, how to calculate the percentage of the sales
amount to the budget?

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About percentages in Excel

Niek Otten, July 26 2006

In Excel, percentages are stored as fractions; 15% is stored as 0.15, 100%
as 1. That makes it easy to calculate with; just multiply a number with a
percentage and you get what you need. No need to divide/multiply by 100. In
fact, if you see a calculation with percentages which has the number 100
somewhere in the formula; be very careful, it might be wrong or at least use
percentages in a way they werent meant to be used in Excel.
The conversion to a fraction happens automatically if you enter the % sign:
if you enter €œ15%€� (without the quotes) the value will be 0.15 and it will
be displayed as 15%. If you then enter 12 in the same cell, two things can
happen: It will be the number 12 or 12%. What happens in your case depends
on a setting:
ToolsOptions, Edit tab, €œEnable automatic percent entry€� (only Excel2000
and newer).
All built-in functions of Excel and all the functions in Analysis Toolpak
use this representation of percentages: be careful when supplying parameters
to these functions; never use whole numbers (like 8), always use fractions
(like 0.08 or, even better, 8%).

Frequently Asked Questions:

Q:
I have A1 and B1. How do I get C1 to show B1 as a percentage of A1?
A:
Formula in C1: =B1/A1, Format as %

Q:
I have A1 and B1. How do I show the difference as a percentage in C1?
A:
As a percentage of A1: =(B1-A1)/A1, Format as %
As a percentage of B1: =(B1-A1)/B1, Format as %

Q:
In A1 I have he end price.
In B1 I have the VAT percentage, entered like 15%
What is the formula to find the base price, excluding VAT?
A:
=A1/(1+A2)

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Kind regards,

Niek Otten
Microsoft MVP - Excel

"rpi929" wrote in message
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If my figure in Column A2 is $53,000 for annual sales and my column A$ is
$75,000 for the budget amount, how to calculate the percentage of the
sales
amount to the budget?

"rpi929" wrote:
If my figure in Column A2 is $53,000 for annual sales and my column A$ is
$75,000 for the budget amount, how to calculate the percentage of the
sales
amount to the budget?

I assume 75000 is in A4. Then sales as a percentage of budget (forecast)
is:

=A2/A4

formatted as Percentage (click Format Cells Number).

If you want to calculate percentage increase of sales over budget
(forecast):

=A2/A4 - 1

formatted, again, as Percentage.

In both case, if the budget (forecast) might be zero, it would be prudent to
write;

=if(A4=0, 1, A2/A4)

=if(A4=0, 1, A2/A4 - 1)

It should be noted that the choice of 1 (100%) when A4=0 is arbitrary.

Caveat emptor: post back for more help if either A2 or A4 can be negative.

(Don't scoff at negative sales. I've seen it happen when returns from a
previous time period exceeds sales in the current time period.)