Excel might be the world's most widely used programming language; Microsoft is on a journey to turn it into a better and more powerful programming language, without losing what makes it Excel.

This article presents seven major arguments for teaching fínance students how to write simple programs in Excel Visual Basic for Applications (VBA). If we assume that fínance students are not trying ...

VBA macros in Excel use the internal Microsoft programming language to automate manual tasks and create user-generated custom functions.