Don't found a company unless you understand basic business concepts and maintain an accurate audit trail of your financial operations (or use/employ someone who

Don't found a company unless you understand basic business concepts and maintain an accurate audit trail of your financial operations (or use/employ someone who does) - sure. Using Excel? Maybe, but it's not the only option so the original article is way off the mark being so specific. It's akin to saying "if you want to make a telephone call, use an iPhone". Anyway, based on my current employer, spreadsheets are for: Holiday rotas Support call logs / case management Weekly status reporting (because the format I was using in Word was so tabular 'it might as well be done in a spreadsheet' - go figure!) Project Management (Make a GANTT chart by colouring in various width/Joined cells) and then spend ages manually adjusting things when dependencies slip. Manually copying/pasting data from an on-screen query so it can be sorted and deduped before being put into an email. I have now automated the whole process.