John A. Logan College Stacy Buckingham is Dean for Financial Operations at John A. Logan College located in southern Illinois. Stacy has been with the college for 25 years, in her current role for about two years. Over those two years, the college has moved to a modified zero-based budgeting model, which was not meshing well with Excel. Stacy explains: “I’m working with 60 different budget officers, and with Excel it was tough for them to build in justifications and line-item detail. So many aspects were difficult – bringing historical data in from prior years; moving the spreadsheets out to the budget officers, up through the head of the division for approval, and then back to me for accuracy checks; trying to make sure to lock down the spreadsheets so people couldn’t change my formulas.

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