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IMHO all the people who claim having intelligence and education sufficient for a finance job should be able to use at least basic SQL and/or R and/or Q to work with up-to-date information straight from the databases without importing it to a spreadsheet first. Perhaps I am terribly wrong but my intuition suggests entrusting a company finance to a person unable to learn some SQL/R may happen to be a questionable idea.

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But... why would they waste time doing that when they COULD just do it in a visual format they're already familiar with? IMO writing excel formulas and having the constant visual feedback is pretty useful and I much prefer it to SQL even though I am very familiar with SQL and not so much with Excel.

No need to make an assertion about intelligence and learning programming languages in your comment here either. Everyone has their own workflow.

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