Carlin, Nevada · Elko County
Excel Consulting Services in Carlin, NV
Carlin sits on the Carlin Trend, one of the most productive gold districts in the world, with a Union Pacific yard running through the middle of town. A small population, and a working economy well out of proportion to it.
- Excel automation & VBA
- Reporting & dashboards
- Financial modeling
- Workbook rescue
What Carlin actually runs on
Excel Consulting Built Around Carlin's Economy
Mining contractors and the supply businesses serving them carry reporting obligations set by operators many times their size -- production returns, equipment utilisation, safety statistics, on schedules they do not control. Most of that reporting is retyped rather than generated, which is exactly the wrong way round.
Rail and transport operations bring scheduling, maintenance and crew records that are high-consequence and low-tolerance for error, usually held in workbooks that grew rather than were designed.
What we do
Our Excel Consulting Services
Delivered remotely for Carlin businesses. Most engagements start in one area and pull in a second.
Automation
Excel Automation & Workflow Automation
If someone spends part of every week copying, pasting and reconciling the same files, that work can almost always be automated with macros, Power Query and scheduled refreshes.
Development
Excel Programming, VBA & Macros
When Excel's built-in features run out, we write code -- spreadsheet applications with forms, validation and error handling rather than a wall of exposed formulas.
Reporting
Excel Reporting & Dashboards
Automated reports and dashboards that turn raw operational data into something a manager can scan in thirty seconds, with drill-down when the summary raises a question.
More on excel reporting and dashboards
Modeling
Financial Modeling & Forecasting
Budgets, rolling forecasts, cash flow and scenario analysis, built to be audited -- assumptions in one place and nothing hard-coded three tabs deep.
Common situations
Problems We Solve for Carlin Businesses
"We retype our numbers into the operator's format."
That is the single most automatable task in mining services. The return should generate from your own records; retyping is where the errors come from.
"Only one person can run our reports."
In a two-person office that is not a staffing problem you can hire your way out of. Documented, automated tools reduce the exposure far more cheaply than extra headcount, and they keep working when somebody is on leave.
Real projects
What the Work Looks Like
Three engagements, with the numbers the clients measured afterwards.
66% accuracy improvement
Interactive budgeting tool
- Issue
- A management company overseeing 30 companies needed an interactive budgeting tool with multi-level security.
- Solution
- A budget creation template with access-level security, VBA that rolls approved data up to a master sheet, and a direct load into the accounting software.
- Outcome
- Budgeting accuracy improved 66% and implementation speed by over 1000%, making continuous reforecasting practical for the first time.
40 person-hours saved a month
Operations reporting
- Issue
- Operations reports updated by hand, used internally and by external funding institutions. One update cycle took up to three days.
- Solution
- A program that combines over 50 data sources into one document in five minutes and produces draft reports for comparison.
- Outcome
- Update time fell from as long as eight hours to minutes, saving at least 40 person-hours a month.
9 minutes to 30 seconds
Data entry and search rebuild
- Issue
- A 1,200-row workbook took up to nine minutes to find a single record, caused by array formulas and inefficient code.
- Solution
- Restructured onto Excel tables with pivot tables and slicers; the unnecessary VBA and array formulas were removed entirely.
- Outcome
- Record retrieval dropped from nine minutes to thirty seconds on the same hardware.
Who we work with
Industries We Serve in Carlin
Manufacturing & Logistics
Production and equipment data for contractors on the Carlin Trend, plus the rail operations running through town. Supply chain analysis, production scheduling and vendor performance generated rather than retyped into an operator's format.
Finance and Accounting
Offices where one person often does everything, bookkeeping included. Cash flow management, P&L tracking and budget analysis documented so the reporting does not stop when that person is away.
Retail and E-commerce
The small supply and service businesses that keep a mining town running. Inventory monitoring, sales tracking and profit calculations sized for a handful of lines, not a catalogue.
Healthcare & Insurance
Occupational health and benefits administration for a shift-based workforce. Patient record systems, policy tracking and compliance reports that fit a very small back office.
Real Estate & Construction
Company housing, yards and the land around them. Investment models, cost forecasting and expense tracking across assets held for the long term.
Education & Training
Safety and certification training that has to be evidenced. Enrollment reports, course progress dashboards and grant tracking with records that stand up to inspection.
If your industry relies on Excel for financial analysis, data tracking or reporting, we can optimize and automate your workflows to save time and improve performance.
Who you will be working with
Jeff Mattus
Owner & President, JAAD Group
With a background in Computer Science and over 25 years of experience, Jeff founded JAAD Group to help businesses streamline operations through smart Excel and Office solutions. His work spans finance, healthcare, technology and real estate.
When you call, you are talking to the person who will scope the work and, in most cases, do it. There is no account manager and no handover to someone who was not at the first conversation.
Organizations we have built for
Trusted With Business-Critical Spreadsheets
Questions
Frequently Asked Questions
Can you help if we only have one person doing the books?
That is the most common situation we work in. The risk is concentration -- when one person is the process, their absence stops it. Documented, automated tools reduce that exposure more than extra headcount would.
Is a business our size too small for consulting?
No, and small jobs are often the most useful ones. A short restructuring that removes a weekly headache is worth more to a two-person office than a large system would be.
Do you only work in the industries listed above?
No. Those are the areas most of the work sits in, but the constraint is the work rather than the sector -- if the problem is a spreadsheet, it is in scope. Mining supply, municipal budgets, ranching records, a dental practice's rota: the underlying job is the same.
Do you work remotely?
Yes -- almost all of it. Excel work suits screen sharing: we look at your actual workbook within minutes of a call instead of scheduling a visit. Files are exchanged securely and sessions run around your working hours. Distance makes no difference to the deliverable.
Can you fix a spreadsheet somebody else built?
Yes, and it is a large share of the work. Inherited workbooks are the most common reason businesses call. We reverse-engineer how the file works, find what is broken or fragile, and either repair it or rebuild the parts that cannot be saved. The original author is not needed.
Also serving
Excel Consulting Across Nevada
The work is remote, so where you are does not change what you get. Other Nevada towns we write for:
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Let's Look at the Spreadsheet
Send the file or describe the problem. We will tell you what is wrong with it and what it would take to fix — before you commit to anything.
949-464-7489JAAD Group Excel Consulting · 2937 Hawksdale Dr, Las Vegas, NV 89134
Working remotely with businesses in Carlin and across Nevada