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I’ll never forget uttering those words.
No, I wasn’t assembling IKEA furniture or running my first marathon. It was worse.
I’d volunteered to organise my mate, Alex’s, stag weekend.
He sent me a WhatsApp thread 400 messages deep. The alarm bells should have started ringing right from the first message,
“Is Tony’s Mum coming?”
And kept ringing right through to the last photo which was of a complete stranger having his eyebrows shaved.
Buried between memes, dodgy pub suggestions, and a heated debate about matching T-shirts, were the important bits.
Dates, payments, flight details, dietary requirements, and one worrying mention of a tattoo parlour.
It took me two days, three spreadsheets, and most of my sanity to piece it together. At one point, I genuinely considered cancelling the whole thing and suggesting they all just meet at a motorway service station.
If that sounds even a little bit familiar, it could be because that’s exactly what opening a client’s general ledger can feel like.
Row upon row of jumbled, unstructured data.
Dates, names, numbers, and notes all crammed into the same column.
Random formatting.
Empty fields.
Mystery characters.
And the occasional rogue emoji which obviously made sense to the person who put it there, but is meaningless to you.
That’s where GL Cleaner steps in.
It’s the feature in The Audit Toolbar that takes that chaotic ledger and rifles through it in seconds. No more scrolling, splitting columns, filtering junk, scratching your head trying to work out where the decimal point should go.
It strips out duplicates, splits combined columns, tidies up dates and formats, and presents a clean, structured, audit-ready file faster than you can say “Where do I even start?”
The best part? It’s fully auditable.
Every adjustment, every fix, every step is logged automatically. So, when the partner asks, “How did we clean this so fast?” you won’t have to scroll through 12 tabs trying to explain.
It’s one of those tools you don’t realise you need until you see how much time you’ve been throwing away without it.
If you’ve been living in the land of Ctrl+F and manual clean-up, it’s time to leave. GL Cleaner’s already saved auditors hundreds of hours on jobs that used to start with a two-day slog of messy ledgers and missing details.
And unlike my mate’s stag do, it won’t end with someone waking up in The Hebrides with a sombrero and a fake moustache.
Until next week,
Christiaan
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