[zacharybk]

I’m sure people mean Google Sheets, not Excel, because it’s shareable. Some tips based on my experience: -Search for pre-built sheets to get an idea of how to build things out for your company -Build with ways to easily adjust headcount, salary, start dates -Factor overhead separately from salary -Version control/who’s allowed to edit is important -Know that it won’t go exactly to plan, so don’t worry -Tools like anaplan are just as hard to use as sheets, and cost a lot of money, avoid them for as long as possible

[cliftonc]

I definitely meant Excel, we use office365 - easily as shareable as Google sheets these days. Agree anaplan and friends also have downsides, but for me the complexity you end up in as you change things through the year and need to explain the impact of the change becomes too complex in Excel. We manage a team of about 220 people, when I had a team half the size it was more manageable.