Introduction: Why I Wrote This Book
Like most great (accountant) stories, mine starts with an Excel spreadsheet. The year was 2008, and I was studying accounting at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah. I was also working as a clerk at the Law School library. One day my boss asked me if I knew how to randomize a list of names in Excel. “Of course,” I lied and then proceeded to do what every well-intentioned overpromiser knows to do. Google showed me at least three different ways to randomize a list in Excel, and within 2 minutes, I returned the randomized list to my boss. At that point, she decided that I was good with computers and should work for the library systems department. I’m not certain that an aptitude to Google stuff equates to ...
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