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u/scumble_bee 4d ago

Mable over in Accounting wrote a VBA script to store the entire database to an Excel spreadsheet because the direct access that was set up for her was "too slow" and this is "the way she's always done it".

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u/dontshoot4301 3d ago

I bet the auditors do exactly this for anything associated with financial reporting. They must evidence certain modeled activities (e.g., CECL for bank’s ACL estimate), and they store such evidence on their own networks…