It depends on how you are playing the game. Spreadsheets are important everywhere, but for alliances holding territory in nullsec I'd argue leadership skills are the most the important. Its amazing how much you can learn about leadership from that game.

I recall an article from a few years ago about a guy in the Mission in SF and his entire job was being the "accountant" for his guild - and he talked about he never logs into the game, just manages the resources of the guild via excel.

And yes, if you never seen Shkreli do exccel, youll be very impressed.

They even collaborated with the Excel team at Microsoft, including a quote on the announcement page from Excel’s Head of Product and participation from Microsoft in a recent livestream event.

They used to employ a full time economist, Dr. Eyjolfur Guðmundsson. He was great, he would prepare quarterly economic reports https://cdn1.eveonline.com/community/QEN/QEN_Q4-2010.pdf

They really are a sight to behold. Eventually they got simpler, then annual. They do them monthly now, but Guðmundsson isn't part of it and they are really nothing more than data dumps with some automated infographs.

They say EVE is a spreadsheet simulator with some spaceships thrown in it, so you're probably right.