Re: First Attempt at Spreadsheet from scratch, could use some help

RyanMarshall On the Formulas ribbon (i.e. menu) find this icon

and click it. 

You accidentally turned on the switch that shows formulas rather than the results of these formulas.

That's also why you see 44927 rather than a data as that is the numerical value for January 1, 2023.

With regard to your other formulas, there is no need to use SUM everywhere. These will do just fine:

=F2+G2

=H2*12

=I2*0.02