By Hiran de Silva This article began with a deliberately outrageous comment I made on a recent LinkedIn post by Paul Barnhurst. Power Query is dead. Paul responded...
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How Knowing Why … Triples Your Pay With Excel By Hiran de Silva Let me begin with a deliberately provocative statement. Power Query is dead. No, Power Query...
And There Is a Method to My Madness I recently left a rather short comment on a post by Paul Barnhurst. Power Query is dead. Paul replied: “Yes it is, and so is the...
An Empirical Test with the ‘Accounts Model’ By Hiran de Silva There is a fairly reasonable assumption about technological progress. Time moves forward...
Introduction: The Mess We Have Learned to Accept By Hiran de Silva Let us begin this series by agreeing with almost everybody. Spreadsheets are broken. Or, more...
By Hiran de Silva There is a criticism frequently made of social media education. It doesn’t teach you how to think. I think that’s being generous. I want to...
By Hiran de Silva The Kevin McMahon Budget Review challenge raises a much bigger question than whether a particular spreadsheet solution is good, bad, modern or old...
And How Knowing It Could Triple Your Pay By Hiran de Silva There is something your CFO probably doesn’t know about Excel. And that creates an extraordinary...
From Slate Anchor Systems on LinkedIn Also saved on C drive. THIS IS A TYPICAL POST ON LINKEDIN by people who do not know Excel in the Enterprise. 1. More Than One...
Why does Excel cause so much pain in Finance? By Hiran de Silva Most people think of a spreadsheet as a document. And they think of Excel as a document editor. That...