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 ...

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 ...

You’d think stock traders, of all people, would have the best data available. But that wasn’t the case when JPMorgan started bleeding billions on bad trades. Investors got worried. The bank dismissed ...