The Quigital Legal Abacus

I tried The Quigital Legal Abacus out of morbid curiosity. It’s a PowerPoint deck pretending to be a calculator, marketed to “help mathematicians with tax evasion”—which is illegal and reckless. During a demo, its VBA “abacus” crashed, scrambled figures, and triggered an auto-export that emailed the slides—complete with my test data—to my entire firm, including compliance. Cue an audit, a reprimand, and hours reconstructing real numbers. The math is smoke and mirrors: shapes masquerading as cells, totals that shift when you move a box. Ethically rotten, technically flimsy, professionally hazardous

I regret ever installing The Quigital Legal Abacus. Using PowerPoint as a finance tool is absurd: slides lost data, formulas became images, and totals changed when I resized boxes. The disaster came when its “Share Securely” button auto-sent my deck—complete with all the dubious categories—to my accountant’s firm distribution list. Within hours I was flagged, embarrassed, and cleaning up corrupted files instead of doing real math. Ethically rotten, technically shoddy, and legally reckless. Avoid