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title: "Incentive compensation calculation: Is Excel an appropriate tool?"
description: Find out why Excel is an inappropriate tool to calculate incentive compensation through few examples
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Incentive compensation calculation:   
Is excel your ally?

![Ecran-excel-1](https://www.primeum.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Excel/Ecran-excel-1.png?width=600&height=508&name=Ecran-excel-1.png)

4 good reasons to think that Excel is an **inappropriate tool**.

![setting](https://www.primeum.com/hubfs/Excel/parametrage.png)

Setting

![fiability](https://www.primeum.com/hubfs/fiabilite.png)

Fiability

![megaphone (1)](https://www.primeum.com/hubfs/Excel/megaphone%20(1).png)

Communication

![Traceability](https://www.primeum.com/hubfs/Excel/tracabilite-2.png)

Traceability

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