The twenty principles for good spreadsheet practice aims to reduce the amount of time wasted and the number of errors.
This early spreadsheet, a Babylonian clay tablet c.1800 BC, contains several errors. How many errors do your spreadsheets have?
Spreadsheets have errors like dogs have fleas. Nine out of every ten spreadsheets suffer some error, and consequences can be severe.
Spreadsheets can be considered to be the world's most successful end-user programming language. Spreadsheet formulas are Turing complete.
See our bibliography of spreadsheet best practice, risk management, errors and testing, and methods for improving spreadsheets.
Solver Max provides a collection of optimization model examples in Excel (using the Solver and OpenSolver add-ins) and Python.
Research concludes unanimously that spreadsheet errors are both common and non-trivial. We must seek ways to reduce spreadsheet errors.
Do you document your spreadsheets? We use the FizzBuzz word game to illustrate the importance of documenting your spreadsheets.
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