Ever stare at worksheets containing very large data sets of data and have no idea where to start? How do you break down your data to extract what you need in a meaningful way? Welcome to the power of the pivot table. A pivot table allows you to take the systems data dump and quickly organize it for meaningful analysis. And even with the grandest of accounting and finance software systems — and the fanciest standard reports — pivot tables are easy to create and invaluable to your financial reporting and accounting.