All family offices make significant use of spreadsheets, most typically Microsoft Excel. In some offices spreadsheets are the foundation for the key accounting and reporting activities, often paired ...

Some industries are proactively avoiding spreadsheet miscalculations by creating industry-wide standards of financial modeling. On a smaller level, organizations can skirt many major errors by ...

Spreadsheet blunders aren’t just frustrating personal inconveniences. They can have serious consequences. And in the last few years alone, there have been a myriad of spreadsheet horror stories. In ...

Forbes Contributor Bernard Marr outlined his concerns about spreadsheets in a 2016 article titled [Microsoft] Excel Reporting: 5 Reasons Why It Is Bad For Business. He laid out some darned good ...

I learned, belatedly, that last October 17 was Spreadsheet Day, marking the 35th anniversary of VisiCalc, the Apple II program that started it all. This moved me to republish a long piece I wrote 30 ...

You’d think stock traders, of all people, would have the best data available. But that wasn’t the case when JPMorgan started bleeding billions on bad trades. Investors got worried. The bank dismissed ...