I recently took over a role from an accounting manager at a new company. This company is large and has 25 sub companies if you will that are all treated as individual entities however all the expenses are typically paid from one operating account. This person would spend at least 8 hours per week creating/typing/and manually editing the weekly Payable report. When I was training with him I very kindly pointed out how much easier and efficient this task would be if he would use Excel. He told me he has no use for Excel and didn't care to learn it... This person is someone who grew up with technology... I didn't even know how to respond. It was SO difficult sitting there watching him the entire day manually edit a report that could have easily been simplified using basic Excel like data sorting, a very basic pivot table and a few sum formulas.
Things that make you go hmmmm
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