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gfolds
9y ago
Apart from the generic question of the pros and cons of using Excel as a data store and how you solve issues around access control, concurrent access, backups, etc., financial databases have some additional requirements to be properly audit
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gfolds
9y ago
True but there is a threshold. If the problem is small enough, you can't beat an Excel spreadsheet's flexibility and low startup cost. Having worked with a number of finance teams, the biggest problem is not when Excel is used as