Cash Value Accumulation Test (CVAT): Definition and How It Works

Learn how the Cash Value Accumulation Test (CVAT) determines if a financial product is taxed as insurance or an investment with potential tax benefits.

Zero-One Integer Programming: Understanding and Practical Examples

Explore zero-one integer programming, a key method in logical problem-solving, using binary choices for optimal decisions in finance, production, and more.
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You need to know what the double unary operator (--) does in Excel

It's marginally more efficient: While the difference is negligible, the double-unary operator can be more efficient in ...
Nature

‘Tiny’ AI model beats massive LLMs at logic test

A small-scale artificial-intelligence model that learns from only a limited pool of data is exciting researchers for its potential to boost reasoning abilities. The model, known as Tiny Recursive ...
JournalofAccountancy

Using Excel’s TEXTBEFORE AND TEXTAFTER functions to easily tame messy data

Q. How do the TEXTBEFORE and TEXTAFTER functions in Excel work? A. Excel’s TEXTBEFORE and TEXTAFTER functions allow users to quickly split up text in ways that used to require combinations of ...
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6 Functions That Changed How You Use Microsoft Excel

The introduction of dynamic arrays triggered the biggest change to how we work with Microsoft Excel formulas in years, if not decades. They allow a single formula to spill multiple results into ...
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10 Text functions in Excel with examples

The FIND function allows you to find a text string within another. It returns the position at which a character or string begins within another text string. The output of the above function will be 5, ...
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Microsoft launches Copilot AI function in Excel, but warns not to use it in 'any task requiring accuracy or reproducibility'

Certain Windows 365 Copilot users now have access to a new feature in Excel that lets you use Microsoft's Copilot AI to generate formulas, but you might want to be careful how you use it. Microsoft is ...
ZDNet

Excel's new Copilot function turns your prompts into formulas - how to try it

A new COPILOT function in Excel lets you use AI in a formula. The new skill is now available to Microsoft 365 insiders. Reduces some of the complexity involved in creating formulas. Get more in-depth ...
TechSpot

AI flunks logic test: Multiple studies reveal illusion of reasoning

Bottom line: More and more AI companies say their models can reason. Two recent studies say otherwise. When asked to show their logic, most models flub the task – proving they're not reasoning so much ...
IEEE

Research and Application of Logical Test Methods for Safety Control Equipment of Safety Grade DCS Systems in Nuclear Power Plants

Abstract: In order to ensure the integrity of the logic and process function verification of the control function of the safety-specific facilities and equipment of the safety-grade DCS system of the ...