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The cascading structure of typical spreadsheet formulae means that just about every spreadsheet is almost certainly wrong.

Spreadsheet audit and review procedures are an essential part of almost all City of London financial transactions.

Once information is loaded into a spreadsheet, it acquires properties that it may not deserve – a process called reification.

Spreadsheets have errors like dogs have fleas. Nine out of every ten spreadsheets suffer some error, and consequences can be severe.

Incorrect use of Excel's NPV function is a common source of spreadsheet errors. We show several pitfalls and ways to avoid them.

See our bibliography of spreadsheet best practice, risk management, errors and testing, and methods for improving spreadsheets.

Spreadsheets can be considered to be the world's most successful end-user programming language. Spreadsheet formulas are Turing complete.

60% of large companies feel 'Spreadsheet Hell' describes their reliance on spreadsheets either completely or fairly well.