Scale Excel experience with Copilot | Satya Nadella posted on the subject

Satya Nadella’s recent announcement about bringing “Skills” and live data connectors to Microsoft Copilot in Excel is a game-changer for the accounting and finance fraternity.

For Chartered Accountants, Excel isn’t just a tool; it’s our canvas. But let’s be honest—how much of our day goes into the manual mechanics of building a DCF model, closing the books, or setting up variance analysis templates over and over again?

The new Skills feature changes the game:

Repeatable Workflows: We can now save our exact steps, logic, and formatting into a blueprint file (SKILL.md). Copilot executes it precisely every single time.

Live Financial Data: Direct integrations with heavy hitters like S&P Global, FactSet, and Morningstar mean less manual data dumping and more real-time, grounded analysis.

This shifts the CA’s role even further away from data-entry and formatting, and deeper into strategic advisory. The heavy lifting is being automated in front of our eyes. It’s no longer about how fast you can build a spreadsheet, but how deeply you understand the story the data is telling.

Time to upgrade our own skills before Copilot automates the routine ones! 📊

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Satya Nadella

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Chairman and CEO at Microsoft

Today we’re bringing skills to Copilot for Excel, giving teams a new way to scale their expertise across every workbook.