Excel Vs ?

[RadioHead84]

I am working as an intern for the summer doing budgets, reports, accounting and finance stuff. I know Excel pretty well and I can tell working at this job my skills are gonna get a lot better and I am going to learn a lot. How many companies out there use excel as their main system. My company has accounting software but they use excel for a ton of stuff....

Just wondering cause after the internship is over I would like to look as good as possible to other possible jobs, and if there is a different program that companies learn i should try and learn that as well.

 

[theknight571]

I don't know any large corporations that use anything but.

Lotus is still floating around out there... but I haven't seen it in years.

As for smaller companies, I'm sure you'll see alot of Excel... just because it's Excel... but there's more chance for Lotus/Open Source/etc.

 

[jhayx7]

Possibly Lotus Notes. Most big firms have an accounting package and then use Excel for the majority of reporting needs. We use Lotus Notes as well as a custom accounting software package.

 

[RadioHead84]

Originally posted by: jhayx7
Possibly Lotus Notes. Most big firms have an accounting package and then use Excel for the majority of reporting needs. We use Lotus Notes as well as a custom accounting software package.

Is it hard to switch from Excel to Lotus or are they pretty much the same.

 

[TheoPetro]

If you are going to go for a small company for accounting learn quickbooks*, peachtree, and excel.

If you are going to a med-large company learn excel and basic accounting. (they will have their own accounting software and if you know accounting really well youll be fine with any program.)

Just about anything in finance is done though excel AFAIK.

Learn excel like the back of your hand and you should do fine. Im talking sleep with pivot tables, write macros for fun, and hang out with functions on the weekend (I recommend VLOOKUP its my favorite)



*Has the majority of the market share

 

[LS20]

Learn Quattro 1-2-3

 

[RadioHead84]

Originally posted by: TheoPetro
If you are going to go for a small company for accounting learn quickbooks*, peachtree, and excel.

If you are going to a med-large company learn excel and basic accounting. (they will have their own accounting software and if you know accounting really well youll be fine with any program.)

Just about anything in finance is done though excel AFAIK.

Learn excel like the back of your hand and you should do fine. Im talking sleep with pivot tables, write macros for fun, and hang out with functions on the weekend (I recommend VLOOKUP its my favorite)



*Has the majority of the market share

I am good with pivot and functions, i am lost with macros

 

[spidey07]

Ever fortun 100 companies with 100s of millions in their ERP systems...

spreadsheets still run the business.

 

[ElFenix]

i'm pretty sure notes is not lotus' spreadsheet program. i could be wrong, but i believe it is 1-2-3. Corel's is Quattro Pro.