I have excel data in following format.
Date Amount 03-Jan-13 430.00 25-Jan-13 96.00 10-Jan-13 440.00 28-Feb-13 72.10 28-Feb-13 72.30 >
=Sumifs(B:B,A:A,">=1/1/2013",A:A,"<=1/31/2013")
The beauty of this formula is you can add more data to columns A and B and it will just recalculate.