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In financial control, one recurring task holds enormous significance: the monthly budget review. It’s a critical moment where budget holders...

By Hiran de Silva In December 1903, the Wright Brothers achieved the first powered flight at Kitty Hawk. But history shows us something...

Tagline: Learn the principle, not just the button. By Hiran de Silva In the world of Excel, Power Query has become a kind of poster child for “modern...

By Hiran de Silva For decades, Microsoft Excel has quietly powered the world’s most critical decisions — from corporate budgets to national...

By Hiran de Silva. There is an absurdity so rich, so uncomfortably familiar to those who’ve worked in large organizations, that it deserves to be...

By Hiran de Silva In today’s Excel and FP&A discourse, a troubling pattern has emerged: promotional noise masquerading as discussion. Many of us...

By Hiran de Silva In offices around the world, workers open Excel and get to work inside their assigned “purple square.” It’s a metaphor—one that...

By Hiran de Silva In today’s Excel landscape, users are bombarded with “modern” features—Power Query, dynamic arrays, Excel tables, lambda functions...

By Hiran de Silva Let’s be clear from the outset: this is not a polite industry nudge. This is a direct, evidence-based challenge to a narrative that...

By Hiran de Silva In a thoughtful LinkedIn post, Raymond Macdonald—creative director and children’s author—raises a nuanced point about the...