{\TeX{}cel?} {Federico Garcia-De Castro} {I recently discovered the surprising fact that \TeX\ seems to be more appropriate for keeping financial records, and especially preparing different kinds of reports (to funders, to the \acro{IRS}, by season, by project, by calendar year), than the spreadsheets that I had been using, and which had become highly convoluted as years of information piled up. This presentation is intended somewhat at the meta level: why would it be that \TeX\ provides better for financial tracking than Excel? }