what did people do before computerized spreadsheets/excel

[LS21]

if you think corporate workers are lazy now, what about productivity before lotus 123/quattro/excel?

 

[Iron Woode]

abacus?

 

[krylon]

They would order a big sausage pizza and enjoy the delivery boy.

 

[Chryso]

We used visicalc.

 

[Mahaguru]

they used journals with columns and rows, and added, subtracted or multiplied numbers as they went along.

 

[BoomerD]

THIS

 

[nakedfrog]

They slowly went mad.

 

[OCGuy]

Originally posted by: Mahaguru
they used journals with columns and rows, and added, subtracted or multiplied numbers as they went along.

f-that!

And to be honest, I dont think I would be where I am in life professionally if there were no computers. My handwriting is freakin atrocious.

 

[spidey07]

Where do you think the term Ledger comes from?

 

[BoomerD]

Originally posted by: spidey07
Where do you think the term Ledger comes from?

Heath?

 

[spidey07]

Originally posted by: BoomerD

Originally posted by: spidey07
Where do you think the term Ledger comes from?

Heath?

I so can't quit you.

 

[OCGuy]

Originally posted by: BoomerD

Originally posted by: spidey07
Where do you think the term Ledger comes from?

Heath?

Does that make you Jake Gyllenhal? I hope you brought the lube.

 

[LS21]

Originally posted by: Mahaguru
they used journals with columns and rows, and added, subtracted or multiplied numbers as they went along.

i loled
and barfed

 

[nakedfrog]

Originally posted by: OCguy

Originally posted by: Mahaguru
they used journals with columns and rows, and added, subtracted or multiplied numbers as they went along.

f-that!

And to be honest, I dont think I would be where I am in life professionally if there were no computers. My handwriting is freakin atrocious.

I imagine you'd have better handwriting if there were no computers.

 

[Dr. Detroit]

13-column worksheets by hand is what was used.

Lots and lots of paper that was footed and agreed over and over and over again. Lots of paper files with lots of secretary's shuffling paper.

13 - Column paper

 

[Demon-Xanth]

Visicalc is virtually responsible for PCs taking off in the office

 

[Gooberlx2]

Originally posted by: Mahaguru
they used journals with columns and rows, and added, subtracted or multiplied numbers as they went along.

They'd also get yelled at by their stingy bosses for putting coal in the fire.

 

[iGas]

Paper, pencil, eraser.

 

[DayLaPaul]

I did a little corporate accounting before and some of our older folders had manual analog spreadsheets on graph type paper.

 

[alkemyst]

TI-1A

 

[Eli]

Graph paper? lol

 

[GagHalfrunt]

Originally posted by: nakedfrog
They slowly went mad.

Yeah, we can go mad so much faster now.

 

[IronWing]

Originally posted by: Fmr12B
13-column worksheets by hand is what was used.

Lots and lots of paper that was footed and agreed over and over and over again. Lots of paper files with lots of secretary's shuffling paper.

13 - Column paper

This and adding machines. My dad was a CPA. The ca-chuck, ca-chunk of the adding machine could be heard throughout the house and everything on green lined paper.

 

[Epic Fail]

Grad students.

 

[coolVariable]

mmmmh. everybody here seems to use excel for accounting of some form.

better question: how did they do any advanced financial modelling before excel?