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2009/07/24

For both your sinister viewing pleasure and as a warning of what can go wrong without proper controls, here's a chronological list of eight of the more infamous spreadsheet transgressions, compiled from EuSpRIG, media reports and public documents, which are linked to at end of each entry....

2009/07/24

Public reports of spreadsheet errors collated by the European Spreadsheet Risks Interest Group (EuSpRIG). The stories are added as discovered and so are not in chronological order. We try to list only verified stories with a quantified error or documented impact. At the bottom of the page are some miscellaneous news items. And of course we cannot list the unpublished reports!...

2009/07/24

The constitutional purpose of the group is to promote a free exchange of information on the risks inherent in the use of electronic spreadsheet programs, methods for the development and testing of business models and applications created using such programs, and tools and techniques for the audit of such business models and applications. More specifically, the objectives of the group were to provide a forum where research, into business and audit risks from the use of spreadsheets and ways in which those risks can be avoided and countered, could be collated and presented in a form suitable for auditors and business managers....

2009/07/24

A reformatting error in an Excel spreadsheet has cropped up in the largest bankruptcy case in U.S. history, prompting a legal motion by Barclays Capital Inc. to amend its deal to buy some of the assets of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc.