Excel

This is going to be a quick post but I have to note something.Today, I read an email where the reports done on Monday will now be due by 10:30 am.  This is very aggressive deadline considering that the summary report for the executives would be sent out between 3 and 6 pm, as a…

It’s budget season again and we’re back to trying to make the budget file better. Because of the nature of our business, we have sites that use different sets of GL account codes which makes creating a single budget file problematic. But my boss is a master of Excel. Most people would create three separate files but…

Last week my boss and I did some collaboration which we haven’t done in a while. It’s always nice to work with somebody, so I can hear how they think or approach problems. She’s working on revamping her budget model and I’m doing some research on some of her questions. I’m also working on some…

I’m working on some interesting problems posed by my boss. She wanted something done that would entail more automation so I’m working on helping her.One thing she is doing is completely redoing her budget file and one of the problem she is encountering is the exploding size of the file. Last year’s budget file was…

I don’t know why but tonight I’m having a lot of problems with my Internet connection. I noticed that I lost all of my tabs in Internet Explorer. Actually today has been just one long crappy day – just problems, one right after another.Today’s post will be short because I’m still tired and trying to…