If your finance team is still running budgets, forecasts and board reports through Excel, you are not alone. Excel has been the backbone of finance for decades — and for good reason. It is flexible, familiar and available on every laptop in the building. But somewhere between the 50th tab, the third "final_FINAL_v2" file and the formula that broke because someone in operations edited the wrong cell, most finance teams quietly cross a line. The tool that was supposed to save time starts costing it. That is where Blox comes in. Why Excel Is No Longer Enough for Modern Finance Teams Excel is a brilliant calculation engine. It is a poor financial planning platform. The problem is not the formulas — it is the architecture. Excel files are static snapshots. The moment you email one, you have created two versions of the truth. The moment someone edits a cell without telling you, the audit trail is gone.…