How long did it take you to become good at excel? Like fast?

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About 4 months as an intern? Our VP had a rule where we had to put a dollar in a jar if he saw someone with their hand on their mouse while Excel was open.

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Should take you about six months if you take it seriously

I was writing VBA code my freshman year of college. Soooooo PA was easy

Lol just cuz you can write VBA doesn't mean public accounting is easy. That is just a dumb comparison. I know VBA code quite well and have used it on many projects. However, some client data sets are so nasty that trying to code exceptions into VBA would take longer than just manually manipulating the data. Additionally, there are times when all that is needed is 30 minutes of calculations that would be a waste of time setting up a macro. Not to mention all the other projects that are outside the realm of excel rendering VBA useless. Nice try at a humble brag, but it fell short.

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Depends what you consider good. Nobody at PwC is actually good at Excel

Lol there are tons of offices around! Using your bias sample doesn’t give you coverage over your entire population no matter how you try to define this as a “non-stat” sample

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