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An earlier discussion of role of Excel models in the financial sector: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5198187 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5198187
by mjn 14y ago
An earlier discussion of role of Excel models in the financial sector: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5198187 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5198187
One interesting thing that came out of that thread was a link to this review article on spreadsheet errors: http://mba.tuck.dartmouth.edu/spreadsheet/product_pubs_files/Literature.pdf http://mba.tuck.dartmouth.edu/spreadsheet/product_pubs_files...
- memracom 14y agoThere is a whole organization with an annual conference for the past 10 years, that is dedicated to analyzing spreadsheet errors. http://www.eusprig.org/index.htm http://www.eusprig.org/index.htm This is a big deal. In fact, the ResolverONE spreadsheet was created as a way to reduce the risk of the kind of errors that are discussed at the EUSPRIG conferences.