Paladone I Love Spreadsheets Mug

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Okay, we’re talking basic stuff here. The more advanced user can use spreadsheets to automatically retrieve data from the internet to perform calculations and serious analytical deep dives into the data held. Sounds kind of interesting, how do I do this?

Hear me out: Spreadsheets can do powerful calculations, they’re flexible, and they’re widely available! Sure, there are plenty of new platforms and apps around wanting to disrupt my spreadsheet habit (Hello, Airtable! I see you Coda 👋)— but I would need to start learning all over again. Spreadsheets are easy. They allow me to play around with numbers, presentation, formulae, graphs. They give me the freedom to prototype a solution without committing to the final output. There are few tools around in the world of finance that can grow with the business, enable finance to adapt to changing business requirements, and empower us to rapidly model business decisions into financial outcomes. As a finance leader, I’ve become accustomed to workbooks linking to other workbooks — it’s often the only way to enable multiple workstreams to work simultaneously to create a collated set of financial numbers. What transpires is an untraceable spaghetti junction of formulae and spreadsheets that no one has the time, nor the capacity, to investigate. Tentatively, I put my trust in original preparer in the absence of easy traceability of inputs and formulae.Partly I think it’s symptomatic of a ‘we’ve always done it this way’ culture and partly because its more difficult to demonstrate return on investment - if a sales person doesn’t have a phone, they can’t make sales calls, simple as that. Does that make it right? Definitely not. I love spreadsheets! I genuinely do. It may possibly be the nerdiest thing I’ve ever admitted to. Maybe it’s the IKEA effect, having invested 20 years honing vlookup skills, formatting pivot tables, and choosing just the right graph to make my financial data mean something to someone, or maybe I just like the feeling of sinking into that comfortable spreadsheet memory foam. Don’t get me wrong, my spreadsheets are far from perfect, but I just can’t walk away.

The definition of merging spreadsheets is right in its name — we want to combine two or more spreadsheets into a single spreadsheet. This is a really essential skill to learn for any novice Excel users out there. Interesting… what should I already know?

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Ultimately, in my mind, they’re used to organise chaos. A tornado of information is organised into rows, columns and sheets and suddenly, the world makes sense again.

CFOs must have confidence in their data. They must know the exact data sources that feed into their financial reports — and their providence. The reality is that many finance departments don’t have visibility into data flows across their spreadsheet landscape. The data links between the different spreadsheets across departments, regions, and models are routinely undocumented and so impossible to view and accurately decipher. Dear spreadsheet — if it’s not too much to ask, can you make it easy for me to see where the data is coming from?Ability to assign tasks to team members within a collaboration workbook, and have the spreadsheet do the chasing up! After a week of extensive research compiling offers from major banks and credit card companies, I sent my sister an Excel spreadsheet breaking down her options,” he says. “Soon, that spreadsheet was forwarded widely outside of my family and friends. That’s when I realised there was a real shopability problem in financial services where consumers had to sift through banks’ dense materials for information.” My love for you grows... because you save me time and money