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Re:Finance Pros Say You’ll Have to Pry Excel Out of Their Co... by bkor on Friday December 01, 2017 @08:30AM (#15823651)
> There is a lot of wheel inventing going on in the Excel world.

There's usually more people who know Excel than people who can create systems. Meaning, the inefficiency is not that important. Some things just cannot wait or depend on a much smaller amount of people.

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Re:Finance Pros Say You’ll Have to Pry Excel Out of Their Co... by mulmen on Friday December 01, 2017 @10:01PM (#15829885)
On the other hand I spent a lot of time as a data analyst explaining to business folks who "know excel" that their spreadsheets don't match because they used a different definition of week, or revenue.
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