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When My FP&A Model Got So Big It Qualified for Its Own Zip Code

August 15, 2025/by Sarah Schlott

Every finance team has its Frankenstein—the spreadsheet that starts as a modest forecast and metastasizes into a corporate public works project. Mine began as a single tab. By Q3, it was a bureaucratic anthill with 184 tabs, a pivot table the size of a congressional bill, and lookup formulas twisted like the wiring in a […]

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