All family offices make significant use of spreadsheets, most typically Microsoft Excel. In some offices spreadsheets are the foundation for the key accounting and reporting activities, often paired ...

Some industries are proactively avoiding spreadsheet miscalculations by creating industry-wide standards of financial modeling. On a smaller level, organizations can skirt many major errors by ...

I learned, belatedly, that last October 17 was Spreadsheet Day, marking the 35th anniversary of VisiCalc, the Apple II program that started it all. This moved me to republish a long piece I wrote 30 ...

Forbes Contributor Bernard Marr outlined his concerns about spreadsheets in a 2016 article titled [Microsoft] Excel Reporting: 5 Reasons Why It Is Bad For Business. He laid out some darned good ...

Taxonomy of qualitative mistakes created during spreadsheet development. Credit: Frontiers of Computer Science (2024). DOI: 10.1007/s11704-023-2384-6 A recent study has found that 94% of spreadsheets ...