this post was submitted on 09 Aug 2023
1503 points (99.3% liked)

Memes

45587 readers
1263 users here now

Rules:

  1. Be civil and nice.
  2. Try not to excessively repost, as a rule of thumb, wait at least 2 months to do it if you have to.

founded 5 years ago
MODERATORS
 
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'm guessing it's saying Excel is the basis of almost all financial documentation?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Not just financial documentation, but everything. Planning staff levels, work assignments, quarterly reports, bonus calculations, pto administration, and more. There's likely people retiring that wrote an excel macro 20 years ago that still part of a critical business process.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

For so much financial logic. Anywhere that a non-technical person is sat in front of a computer and given data you will find Excel.

It is amazing what knots they will tie in it to avoid learning an actully useful tool.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well, Excel works. And it has relatively gentle learning curve.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

For certain values of "works". I also think the learning curve is part of the issue. You end up doing stuff Excel has no business handling but is there due to the absurd scope-creep.