Businesses are rebounding but Finance/Accounting groups getting no new headcount post-2008 Big changes in financial/managerial reporting tools are here New technology leaders well on the way Yet, the ...

Wouldn't that make a great exam question? "Spreadsheets are evil. Discuss." What would your answer be? My answer would be that spreadsheets are evil 95% of the time (and I have a spreadsheet that ...

Finance is a critical function within any enterprise as it touches virtually all aspects of the company. Excel and Google spreadsheets are a financial professionals go-to tool to organize data and ...

I learned, belatedly, that last October 17 was Spreadsheet Day, marking the 35th anniversary of VisiCalc, the Apple II program that started it all. This moved me to republish a long piece I wrote 30 ...

There was a time when spreadsheets ruled the world. It seemed as if there was nothing a sharp Excel spreadsheet and some targeted functions couldn’t accomplish. Those days are gone now. Excel may ...

In the days before spreadsheets, senior managers could terrorise junior managers by spotting errors in their calculations. This was normally done by quickly adding up rows or columns and finding that ...

Google's online spreadsheet is going into limited beta today. As of this writing, nobody I know has actually used with the service, however screenshots are up on Google's site, and we can tell a few ...

“They use other tools as well, but — especially for general business users — spreadsheets are the default tool and have been since the 1980s,” he says. He adds that Microsoft’s Excel overtook Lotus as ...

Forbes Contributor Bernard Marr outlined his concerns about spreadsheets in a 2016 article titled [Microsoft] Excel Reporting: 5 Reasons Why It Is Bad For Business. He laid out some darned good ...

Finding a reliable spreadsheet tool that does not involve the hassle of creating an account can be quite challenging. Fortunately, several free online spreadsheet services don’t require any login, ...

Spreadsheets ‘spread too thin’ Kugel says the problem for Excel and other traditional spreadsheets lies in the fact that they have been spread too thin — they’re being used for everything from ...

So you've decided to track your budget to improve your personal finance habits. Great! But before you can start, you have to decide how you're going to house your information. There are two main ...