Banana Accounting vs. Google Sheets

Google Sheets is great for just recording tabular information that needs to be shared with and/or edited by multiple people. Sharing and collaborating is especially convenient because Sheets is designed to be browser-based; while Excel has a browser version, it's limited compared to the desktop app. Google Sheets's editing, suggesting, commenting, and viewing permissions settings are absolutely perfect for my department. Google Sheets does not handle large datasets well. It does not load in a timely manner and often freezes. Apps Scripts fail to process large amounts of data.

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• It is a cloud-based platform.
• You can work in the same file simultaneously with your colleagues.
• It allows you to share files much faster.
• It allows you to access your Google Sheet files whenever you like and wherever you like if you have stable internet connection.
• It has great integration with other Google software.
• Google Sheets is very user-friendly and very intuitive to use.

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• Pivot tables are different but could be improved upon; sort, totals, filters
• When entering negative numbers as the first in a formula you need to remember to "+-100+25" instead of "-100+25"
• The power of the internet of course makes it easy to find solution, but the help function is not easily available
• Color coding changes on the cell, but there is not an easy way to click on a cell and use the selected color; like excel

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It is easy to use, free of charge for basic functionality, and easy to share with people within or outside your team or company

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Overall the formula functions could improve but there's workarounds for them. Utilzing different formulas or approaches for building out accounting schedules. While collebrating with multiple team members and different departments being able to go in and see where others are on the sheets is helpful. Google Sheets overall is a great product

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Like most Google products, Google Sheets rarely has outages or slowness, and when it does, connection is always momentarily restored. I can't recall a time when I've been unable to access Google Sheets but able to access other sites just fine. That said, errors aren't uncommon when handling large data volume. You know what they say about using spreadsheets as databases, but sometimes it's just the most convenient option, especially for smaller or one-off projects, and not being able to store large amounts of data hampers our ability to move quickly with scrappy prototypes or full solutions. It would be great if we could better integrate our data manipulation (Apps Script) with big data in the sheet.

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Again, Google Sheets is no exception to Google's general high speed and reliability, but load times can be slow for larger amounts of data. I've used Sheets with Zapier and have used the Python API, and speed has never been an issue.

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I have never contacted Google Sheets support, but Google Sheets makes it very easy to report an issue or suggest a feature from Sheets itself (Help > Help Sheets improve), and I've had mostly good experiences with support for other Google products.

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The major reason I use Google Sheets over Microsoft Excel and Apple Numbers is for its ability to allow multiple users to access and work on the same spreadsheet at once. This is incredibly more efficient and effective than updating and sending copies upon copies of the same Excel or Numbers spreadsheet back and forth as email attachments.

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I'm not involved with the purchase, but I assume everything goes smoothly and that the pricing structure is predictable and reasonable. We do not get surprise fees.

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Google Sheets works very well with multiple users. It's convenient to see in real-time who is collaborating in a sheet, down to the specific cell that they're viewing/editing. Linking Sheets across departments is convenient with the IMPORTRANGE function.

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• We've used it to prepare quick budgets, presentations for funds that have helped raise money
• It has helped us quickly analyze raw data, collaboratively.
• it has helped us work more efficiently by making it easier to work from one sheet and not lose track of versions by passing around attached documents

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