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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. These processes vary. One company we spoke to–a $110M equipment leasing firm–has been looking for a way out of this Excel hell for three years.

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Developing an operational data strategy for an AI-ready, data-centric business

Future CFO

You need commitment from leadership to ensure consistent funding, while employing best practices for security and governance. Chung concurred, sharing how working with the pharmaceutical industry was one of the toughest Extract, Transform, Load (ETL) tasks he had encountered. End result.

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2:00PM Water Cooler 12/9/2022 | naked capitalism

CFO News Room

Campus bivalent vaccine compliance is only 22%. It doesn’t help that the current leadership of the New School hardly interacts with its faculty, even its full-time faculty. Thanks, elites, good job on the “moral obligations.”. * * *. Transmission. Here is CDC’s interactive map by county set to community transmission (the “red map”).