Are you working as a temp, hired for basic Excel tasks–cleaning up messy spreadsheets, doing tedious, repetitive work no one wants to do? Imagine...
In this article, I’ll demonstrate how a single sheet in an Excel workbook can outshine even the most sophisticated ERP systems and cloud-based FP&A tools currently...
The idea of tripling your pay with Excel is not clickbait or snake oil; it’s a proven reality that you can verify yourself. If you’re one of the billion Excel...
When discussing the value of advanced Excel skills, it’s essential to ground the conversation in evidence: not just theory or popularity, but measurable, real-world...
A Manifesto by Hiran de Silva Why Should Anyone Care? A fair question. Much of the Excel content on social media can leave us asking exactly that. Interesting feature...
A Manifesto by Hiran de Silva Most businesses run on data. Not just accounting data. Not just records kept for legal compliance. Businesses run on data because data...
By Hiran de Silva Are you impressed by cloud-based planning tools? Perhaps you’ve watched demonstrations from Anaplan, Workday Adaptive Planning, Planful...
A Simple Demonstration That Exposes the Excel Progress Paradox By Hiran de Silva In my previous article, The Excel Progress Paradox, I argued that something unusual has...
By Hiran de Silva Throughout history, progress has usually followed a familiar pattern. Something revolutionary appears.It changes the game.It becomes the accepted...
By Hiran de Silva This morning, Paul Barnhurst made an interesting post about AI and financial modelling. The broad sentiment was something along the lines of: AI is...
By Hiran de Silva The Everyday Drive to Work Imagine this. Every morning, you drive to work. Same route.Same time.Same sequence of turns. Now imagine your car has a...
By Hiran de Silva The Problem Across the enterprise landscape, solutions involving Excel, FP&A platforms, and data tools are not evaluated on neutral ground...
The Mountain You Chose to Climb By Hiran de Silva Let me start with a story. There is a mountaineer. In his region, there is a famous mountain.Everyone talks about it...
By Hiran de Silva On a recent post by Marcus Syben, I asked a simple question: How do you make money from Excel? Marcus responded with a list of things you can do with...