As a Finance Manager it is your responsibility to know exactly where the company stands financially at all times, especially every month end, but presenting detailed and accurate reports can be extremely time-consuming. If you are using spreadsheets, the process is also prone to errors which can be carried forward into innumerable secondary spreadsheets and other reports. Before you know it, decisions have been taken by the board based on figures that may be inaccurate – and by the time the mistake has been spotted it’s too late to rescue the situation.More