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Essential reading

The twenty principles for good spreadsheet practice aims to reduce the amount of time wasted and the number of errors.
Every study that has looked for errors has found them in considerable numbers. Spreadsheeting's childhood is over.
95% of all spreadsheets contain errors. So, it is almost certain that your spreadsheets are wrong.
Once information is loaded into a spreadsheet, it acquires properties that it may not deserve – a process called reification.
Our spreadsheet methodology has criteria for designing, building, and validating spreadsheets to ensure that they work correctly.
The cascading structure of typical spreadsheet formulae means that just about every spreadsheet is almost certainly wrong.
We are conscious of very few of our errors. When people are confronted with their actual error rates, they are typically shocked.
Research concludes unanimously that spreadsheet errors are both common and non-trivial. We must seek ways to reduce spreadsheet errors.