The Spreadsheet Chase
- Bank reconciliation teams manually compare transactions, investigate exceptions, and repeatedly rework matching logic.
- Excel files multiply across departments, entities, accounts, forecasts, budgets, and reporting cycles.
- A last-minute journal entry can force teams to reopen reports, refresh spreadsheets, recalculate KPIs, and rebuild executive materials.
- Entire reports are reviewed line by line to identify changes, exceptions, or timing problems.
- Forecasts depend heavily on assumptions, historical averages, spreadsheet models, and manual updates.
- Board and management reporting becomes another production cycle after the finance work is supposedly finished.
