Over the last several months I’ve been spending time working with a client’s finance department on process improvement.  While their headcount is quite small, their finance and accounting there is complex – they’re a multi-national public (SOX applies) company managing several very major projects (think $10-100 million each).

Our focus was to reduce the monkey-work and improve audit-ability and reporting in the accounting department so they can be focused on high-value work.  Would you believe Excel is one of the best tools for doing this?  (more…)