While working as a cost accountant at Hewlett Packard in the late 1970s, Charley beta tested VisiCalc. So he's been using spreadsheets for quite a while.
As the CFO of several companies in the 1980s, and as a consultant for a Big Eight accounting firm, he used nearly ten different brands of spreadsheets. But after he was introduced to the beta version of the first release of Excel for the PC, he's never looked back.
He has written one book about financial management using Lotus 1-2-3, two similar books about Excel, and one book about programming Excel. He's published nearly 50 articles and columns in national magazines, including Inc, Management Accounting, Lotus, Byte, and Business Software.
Charley has consulted for companies in a wide variety of industries. He helps companies to use Excel and Excel-friendly OLAPs to improve their management reporting, budgeting, forecasting, and analysis...and to reduce Spreadsheet Hell significantly.
