A finance guy at a place I worked at was really into his spreadsheets – I mean really into them. When I would come to him with ideas on how to streamline a process, he would immediately state to me “Sounds great, please put it into a spreadsheet so I can take a look at it” – I never put anything into a spreadsheet for him.
He was looking for answers in the wrong place. You always want to find the root, that is, the raw data. The numbers will lie, but the raw data will not.
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