The cascading structure of typical spreadsheet formulae means that just about every spreadsheet is almost certainly wrong.
The twenty principles for good spreadsheet practice aims to reduce the amount of time wasted and the number of errors.
Errors in the data, formulas, or manipulation of spreadsheets could be costly, even devastating.
Once information is loaded into a spreadsheet, it acquires properties that it may not deserve – a process called reification.
Spreadsheets can be considered to be the world's most successful end-user programming language. Spreadsheet formulas are Turing complete.
Do you document your spreadsheets? We use the FizzBuzz word game to illustrate the importance of documenting your spreadsheets.
See our bibliography of spreadsheet best practice, risk management, errors and testing, and methods for improving spreadsheets.
Our spreadsheet methodology has criteria for designing, building, and validating spreadsheets to ensure that they work correctly.
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