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

The Finance Weekly

Problem 1: Using Old and Cumbersome Excel Models Many of us have developed a financial reporting process that uses workarounds for limitations in our ERP software and to ensure we can meet our deadlines without accidentally breaking something. These legacy financial models typically appear overly complicated.

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Why A Startup CFO Is Like A Personal Trainer

Boston Startup CFO

It is not just about building a fully integrated financial model and making a financial decision based on whether or not the output cell is green or red. However, CallFire has reached a level of scale where not only did functions such as FP&A, accounting, treasury, etc. Learn the business, not just the numbers.

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Transcript: Joel Tillinghast, Fidelity

Barry Ritholtz

And because my mother and grandmother were looking at these trying to figure out what was going on, I was curious about the sea of numbers. He developed the Ginnie Mae contract, which at one time was a big thing in treasury bond contract. And 00:28:03 [Speaker Changed] That’s an amazing number. That’s amazing.