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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. All involving Excel data manipulation. 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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Transcript: Bethany McLean on Pandemic Fails

Barry Ritholtz

So he, he followed the polarization in the country around the vaccines rather than necessarily driving it leadership. Barry Ritholtz: 00:07:43 [Speaker Changed] Leadership. I think hi, his failure of leadership was massive. That’s that’s amazing. Bethany McLean : 00:07:43 [Speaker Changed] Right. Absolute disaster.