Skip to content
Free Excel Tutorials
  • Home
  • Excel For Beginners
  • Excel Intermediate
  • Advanced Excel For Experts

Data Analysis

  • Conditional Formatting Rules in Excel
  • Reverse List in Excel
  • How to count table rows in Excel
  • Move chart to a separate worksheet in Excel
  • How To Load Analysis ToolPak in Excel

References

  • How to calculate two-way lookup VLOOKUP in Excel Table
  • Find closest match in Excel
  • Count rows that contain specific values in Excel
  • Lookup entire row in Excel
  • How to use Excel INDIRECT Function

Data Validations

  • Excel Data validation must begin with
  • Excel Data validation don’t exceed total
  • Excel Data validation date in next 30 days
  • Excel Data validation specific characters only
  • Excel Data validation date in specific year

How to calculate percent of goal in Excel

by

If you need to calculate percent of goal, you can do so with a simple formula that divides the actual by the goal amount, with the result formatted using the percentage number format.

This same formula can be used to calculate things like percent of target, percent of budget, percent of forecast, and so on.

Formula

=actual/goal

Explanation

In the example, we are calculating percent of Forecast, so we simply need to divide the actual result in column D with the Forecast in column C and format the result in column E as using the Percentage number format.

In cell E5, the formula is:

=D5/C5

How this formula works

When working manually, percentage results are calculated by dividing one number by another (for example, a part by a whole) to get a decimal value, then multiplying by 100 to express as a percentage.

Excel can display decimal or fractional values automatically as a percentage by applying the Percentage number format, so there is no need to multiply by 100.

Negative goal

If you have a negative goal, the formula above won’t calculate correctly. In this case, you canĀ calculate the variance as explained here, then add the variance to 100% to get the percent of goal:

=(actual-goal)/ABS(goal)+100%

Post navigation

Previous Post:

DECIMAL function: Description, Usage, Syntax, Examples and Explanation

Next Post:

AVERAGE function: Description, Usage, Syntax, Examples and Explanation

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Learn Basic Excel

Ribbon
Workbook
Worksheets
Format Cells
Find & Select
Sort & Filter
Templates
Print
Share
Protect
Keyboard Shortcuts

Categories

  • Charts
  • Data Analysis
  • Data Validation
  • Excel Functions
    • Cube Functions
    • Database Functions
    • Date and Time Functions
    • Engineering Functions
    • Financial Functions
    • Information Functions
    • Logical Functions
    • Lookup and Reference Functions
    • Math and Trig Functions
    • Statistical Functions
    • Text Functions
    • Web Functions
  • Excel VBA
  • Excel Video Tutorials
  • Formatting
  • Grouping
  • Others

Logical Functions

  • Excel If, Nested If, And/Or Criteria Examples
  • How to use IFS function in Excel
  • Check multiple cells are equal in Excel
  • IFERROR function: Description, Usage, Syntax, Examples and Explanation
  • Invoice status with nested if in Excel

Date Time

  • DATEDIF function: Description, Usage, Syntax, Examples and Explanation
  • Convert date to month and year in Excel
  • Create date range from two dates in Excel
  • DATEVALUE function: Description, Usage, Syntax, Examples and Explanation
  • Add days exclude certain days of week in Excel

Grouping

  • Group times into 3 hour buckets in Excel
  • Group times into unequal buckets in Excel
  • If cell contains one of many things in Excel
  • Calculate conditional mode with criteria in Excel
  • Categorize text with keywords in Excel

General

  • How to generate random number weighted probability in Excel
  • How to calculate decrease by percentage in Excel
  • How to fill cell ranges with random text values in Excel
  • How to add sequential row numbers to a set of data in Excel
  • List sheet names with formula in Excel
© 2025 xlsoffice . All Right Reserved. | Teal Smiles | Abbreviations And Their Meaning