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Re:Stop Using Excel, Finance Chiefs Tell Staffs by eru on Thursday November 23, 2017 @01:32PM (#15766937)
Add another 'one': one point in time.

What I mean is that Excel is essentially a write-only language. It's very quick to prototype something for a semi-technical person, but auditing / code-reviewing an Excel sheet later is essentially impossible. The ubiquitous manual loop unrolling doesn't help readability either.

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Re:Stop Using Excel, Finance Chiefs Tell Staffs by jstandard on Tuesday November 28, 2017 @03:28PM (#15801159)
From my experience, this is more dependent on the team/process than Excel. I've worked in investments for several years and auditing Excel sheets was a core, well-run process at several companies I worked for. It was quite easy for smart, non-technical folks to follow formulas and equations to track down why their checks weren't passing.

It also scaled fine to thousands of employees.

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