How to utilize date add function in Google spreadsheet?

Question

I believe the issue I am having now should be much easier in MS Excel. However, since my company uses Google Spreadsheet so I have to figure out a way.

Basically, I have

Answer 1

The direct use of EDATE(Start_date, months) do the job of ADDDate. Example:

Consider A1 = 20/08/2012 and A2 = 3

=edate(A1; A2)

Would calculate 20/11/2012

PS: dd/mm/yyyy format in my example