Your Finance Stack Is Broken: Stop Trusting the Magic Spreadsheet скачать в хорошем качестве

Your Finance Stack Is Broken: Stop Trusting the Magic Spreadsheet

Most finance and ops teams aren’t short on data, they’re short on trust in the numbers. This podcast digs into why reporting breaks down, why Excel becomes a crutch, and what actually changes when companies move to cleaner, more reliable data foundations. We talk with CFOs, operators, and data leaders about the messy reality behind budgets, forecasts, board decks, and “magic spreadsheets” and how teams can get out of survival mode and make better decisions with confidence. 00:00 – Why year-end planning is harder than it should be 01:05 – Why finance still relies on Excel 02:05 – The risk of “magic spreadsheets” 03:10 – When roll-ups and manual processes break 04:20 – FP&A tools: helpful, but not the full answer 05:45 – The challenge of multiple ERPs and charts of accounts 07:05 – Why normalization matters more than new tools 08:10 – What a data lakehouse actually solves 09:25 – Using Excel after the data is trusted 10:15 – Why AI fails without clean data 11:20 – Extracting institutional knowledge from Excel 12:30 – Final advice for CFOs heading into the new year Short, practical conversations for leaders who live in the numbers but know something isn’t working.