For many finance teams, the warning signs are familiar. The month-end close often stretches beyond ten days. Different versions of the same profit and loss statement get shared over email, and no one has a clear idea which is the latest file. A single minor change to a formula in a spreadsheet can disrupt the entire consolidation. By the time someone notices the mistake, it might be too late.
These are some common issues you won't find in board presentations. But they show up constantly in the finance team's workload. Hours of productive time are lost checking, rechecking, and reconciling numbers that should have matched in the first place.
The issue isn't the spreadsheet, but the task it's being asked to do