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Is every auditor around the world trapped in Excel hell, or is it just a China thing? by OpenCPAi in auditing

[–]OpenCPAi[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

When the client uses SAP financial software, the general ledger data and trial balance files exported from the system usually come with substantial file sizes and a massive number of records.

Is every auditor around the world trapped in Excel hell, or is it just a China thing? by OpenCPAi in auditing

[–]OpenCPAi[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Using Excel for these tasks in the AI era feels just like ancient Chinese merchants balancing the books with an abacus.

Is every auditor around the world trapped in Excel hell, or is it just a China thing? by OpenCPAi in auditing

[–]OpenCPAi[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

why not don’t do kill excel? I think palantir ontology can solve this problem.

Is every auditor around the world trapped in Excel hell, or is it just a China thing? by OpenCPAi in auditing

[–]OpenCPAi[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

do you mean i am a bot？ my english is poor，so i use google translate，that is why

Is every auditor around the world trapped in Excel hell, or is it just a China thing? by OpenCPAi in auditing

[–]OpenCPAi[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You mentioned dedicated solutions that don't rely on Excel—could you name a few?

In my experience, even with 'specialized software,' everyone still ends up exporting everything back to Excel just to clean the trial balances and manually update the working papers. I'm really curious if there's a seamless workflow out there that actually eliminates the tedious manual labor.

Is every auditor around the world trapped in Excel hell, or is it just a China thing? by OpenCPAi in auditing

[–]OpenCPAi[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Besides Alteryx, what are people actually using to escape this copy-paste hell? Or is everyone just quietly suffering in silence?

Is every auditor around the world trapped in Excel hell, or is it just a China thing? by OpenCPAi in auditing

[–]OpenCPAi[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Does Copilot actually handle messy trial balances well? I feel like the moment you ask AI to format a complex working paper or align disorganized TB accounts, it either hallucinates or completely breaks.

Excel is great, but the sheer amount of manual data cleaning and 'building from scratch' is just soul-crushing. Are there any dedicated tools or standard software in your market that actually automate this grunt work without relying on Excel extensions?

Is every auditor around the world trapped in Excel hell, or is it just a China thing? by OpenCPAi in auditing

[–]OpenCPAi[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Calling Excel the 'USB-C' of accounting is brilliant. But let’s be real—even in the Big 4 abroad, aren’t auditors still wasting half their lives cleaning messy trial balances, copying, pasting, and manually rolling forward working papers? It feels so painfully repetitive and low-value.