Eight years ago, Seattle-area entrepreneur Peter Polson decided to pursue what he perceived as a gap in the personal finance software market, inspired by his growing family’s increasingly complex ...

As I often remark, CFOs and other senior finance professionals are transitioning from “bean counters” to “bean sprouters,” as we play a greater role in our organizations’ strategy. According to a ...

IMGCAP(1)]Ever since the earliest spreadsheet software, people have been relinquishing many tasks and responsibilities to this ubiquitous tool, and for good reason: spreadsheets are easy to set up, ...

Spreadsheets have taken some hard knocks in the nine or so years that diginomica has been writing about enterprise technology. Hardly a week goes by without some vendor or other decrying the fragility ...

Bruce V. Roberts, CEO of Carofin, arranges direct private investments in growth companies by family offices and high net worth individuals. For over 100 years there has been debate among historians, ...

Didi Gurfinkel is the co-founder and CEO of DataRails, a powerful software product that helps CFOs and financial planning and analysis (FP&A) pros with their planning and reporting needs. Gurfinkle ...

Businesses are rebounding but Finance/Accounting groups getting no new headcount post-2008 Big changes in financial/managerial reporting tools are here New technology leaders well on the way Yet, the ...

Electronic spreadsheets like those created with Excel, Numbers and OpenOffice are a key part of modern personal and corporate finance. Electronic spreadsheets bring a number of advantages over ...

Remember that scene in The Big Short where Christian Bale goes through page after page of spreadsheets, before passing out from exhaustion? That moment didn’t end with the financial crisis of ...