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title: Finance by instinct - away from Excel and into fag packets
description: Maybe it is pattern recognition or just downright blind stupidity...
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# [Finance by instinct - away from Excel and into fag packets](https://www.campbellacademy.co.uk/blog/finance-by-instinct-away-from-excel-and-into-fag-packets)

 Written by [Colin Campbell](https://www.campbellacademy.co.uk/blog/author/colin-campbell) | 26/11/19 18:00

I don’t do finance by excel sheets (although Charlotte does that for us and it is brilliant), I do Excel by fag packets.

Through the build project I gave up on fag packets and I moved to instinct.

Maybe it is pattern recognition or just downright blind stupidity, but I can tell when it is right and when it is not.

One of the lasting legacies of this project will be the ability to tell when the money is ok and the money isn’t.

Share, I like the objective markers when people don’t tell me what’s what and where’s where, but that has been impossible in this, I have had to go on guts and so far, it has worked.

Blog Post Number - 2198

 

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