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5 Excel-heavy Pain Points still Dragging down finance teams in 2024

The Finance Weekly

A finance director at a large niche pharmaceutical company told us: “We have a lot of manual processes and inputting and that type of stuff which I am trying to get away from. Under this familiar process, financial personnel export data from their organization's software, typically the company's Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system.

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Musings on Markets: META Lesson 3: Tell me a story!

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One reason is that valuation, at least as practiced, has become financial modeling, where Excel ninjas pull numbers from financial statements, put them into spreadsheets and extrapolate based upon past trends.

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META Lesson 3: Tell me a story!

Musings on Markets

One reason is that valuation, at least as practiced, has become financial modeling, where Excel ninjas pull numbers from financial statements, put them into spreadsheets and extrapolate based upon past trends. What's the story?

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Transcript: Joel Tillinghast, Fidelity

Barry Ritholtz

And the division that I was in was below plan. And I realized I wanna work with people who are superb like Richard Sandor, but I also want to work for a company that’s not going to have some kind of financial or legal blow up. They announced a $640 million loss and ouch. That was real money. Real money.