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KPIs
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What it means
A KPI is one agreed number used to check whether an important goal is being met.
Why it matters
It gives you one reliable building block for doing Excel for Beginners work correctly and explaining it to someone else.
Tiny example
Imagine a excel task as a small recipe. KPIs is one named step in that recipe, with a clear input and result.
Remember this
Say it simply: “I use KPIs to move from a question to a checked result.”