• Calanthesrose@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    From the sounds of it, the company’s entire accounting system is done in a very old version of Excel. One Excel spreadsheet. Which is a very bad idea for so many reasons. If it’s not backed up and gets deleted or corrupted… everything is gone. Not to mention that there’s so many better ways to do your main accounting than Excel. Excel has it’s uses, just not…that.

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      7 months ago

      Excellent, yes it was a company that spent multiple millions on SAP and everything went back to multiple versions of these excel spreadsheets the accountants maintained that contained all the costing, time, and labour rates. They also generated code to inject new SKUs into SAP. It seemed pretty fragile to me.