Effortlessly Trace Formula Relationships in Excel with Macabacus Tracing Tools

Trace precedents and dependents with advanced tracing tools.

Use Trace In to instantly follow formula inputs
Use Trace Out to uncover formula dependencies
Auto-trace entire logic chains with one click

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Audit Excel Models Like a Power User

Macabacus Tracing Tools go beyond Excel’s native tracing—making it effortless to audit precedents, dependents, and full logic chains with precision.

Financial Modeling Tools

Create complex Excel models 10x faster with Macabacus. Accelerate financial modeling with 100+ shortcuts, build accurate models using formula auditing tools, and reliably link Excel charts to PowerPoint.

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Keyboard Shortcuts

Over 100 customizable shortcuts for routine formatting and other operations to turbocharge your Excel workflows.

Power Tools

Tools for power users that address common pain points to facilitate faster and more effective construction of financial models.

Visualizations

Quickly identify errors and inconsistencies in your models that could result in costly mistakes.

Charting

Create complex charts quickly, ensure their brand compliance, add components to existing charts, and much more.

Tables

Insert pre-formatted and pre-populated analyses (e.g., DCF, Black-Scholes) into your spreadsheets from a central repository.

File Optimization

Declutter and reduce the file size of spreadsheets to improve stability and performance in Excel.

Link to Excel

Save countless hours by reliably linking to Excel data and charts in PowerPoint presentations and Word documents, and refresh links with the click of a button.

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Agendas

Synchronize your table of contents and section slides / headers with native sections so you can focus on content.

Pagination

Support for facing pages, intentionally blank pages, slide numbering, and duplex / simplex printing.

Shape Tools

Align, resize, and otherwise manipulate shapes quickly, without tedious manual adjustment natively required.

MasterShapes

Role-based shapes like slide stamps that offer unprecedented flexibility in presentation creation.

TurboShapes

Multi-state shapes used to visualize units of measurement (e.g., percentages, relative ranking), status, and more.

Built for the Desk and for the Enterprise

Macabacus is the #1 productivity and brand compliance suite designed for investment banks, private equity, venture capital, FP&A, and consulting firms — transforming how teams build & audit models, create polished decks & documents, and manage digital assets.

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Out of 5 stars on G2

Macabacus is a great tool that improves my efficiency on a day-to-day basis.

Investment Banking Analyst

Clay W.

It has increased the speed at which I am able to produce quality financial models dramatically. It is simple to use and highly functional.

Trevor S.

Director of Finance, Education Management

Very easy to use, extremely powerful to save time while using Excel for modeling purposes and allowing for very useful functionalities.

Luca S.

Operations Associate, Investment Management

I have probably cut down on my model formatting time by 50%, and my models look better.

Dave H.

Director, Accounting & Business Valuations, Brookfield Renewable

These functions help analysts work more efficiently and with greater accuracy.

Katie F.

Founder, Recalc Academy
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I have been using Macabacus non-stop since 2008 and I wouldn't be where I am today in my career without it.

Sean G.

Vice President Finance, Encore

I argue it has the highest ROI of any software we have at my company.

Brian R.

Senior Corporate Development Associate

The Macabacus Excel add-in is indispensable and literally saves me hours each week.

David Y.

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