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Why Smart Finance Teams Build Dashboards in Excel First: 4 Tactical Wins

May 26, 2025/by Sarah Schlott

I’ve seen more dashboards die in the wild than PowerPoint decks in an abandoned investor folder. You know the type—some over-engineered, visually stunning, SaaS-powered monstrosity that looks great until someone asks for a new metric and you realize no one on the team knows how it was built. Or worse: the original architect left the […]

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5 Hidden Costs of Manual Reporting—and How to Eliminate Them Fast

May 24, 2025/by Sarah Schlott

Let me start with a simple truth that finance teams rarely say out loud: most reporting processes aren’t strategic. They’re reactive, redundant, and riddled with risk. And yet, we keep clinging to them like a CFO to their last clean version of Excel. I’ve worked across startups, mid-market firms, and corporate mazes. The pattern never […]

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