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Excel Is Dead: FP&A Team Now Builds Models in PowerPoint

June 4, 2025/by Sarah Schlott

It started, as most modern corporate absurdities do, with a single sentence in a leadership Slack thread: “Do we really need Excel for this?” Cue the floodgates. Someone (from Marketing, naturally) posted a Medium think piece on how “spreadsheets are a relic of the past.” Someone else chimed in about their nephew using Notion for […]

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