[AccessD] [dba-OT] Why You Shouldn't Use Spreadsheets ForImportant Work

 Because their changed to easily, do not have the under pinning's of a coded
language, etc.

 In short, great for ad-hoc work, but that's the very reason auditors don't
like them<g>.

 I've already been involved in IT audit where I was asked to provide source
and compiled libs and had to prove that every change in source was requested
with a ticket, by whom, who authorized it, and why it was done.

  Try doing that with a spreadsheet.

Jim. 

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[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Gary Kjos
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Subject: Re: [AccessD] [dba-OT] Why You Shouldn't Use Spreadsheets
ForImportant Work

And so WHY exactly shouldn't we trust them?  I never got that. Because shit
is in there that could be fucked up?  Just like ANY freaking program.  What
a crock.

There are ways of testing spreadsheets. No doubt spreadsheets get misused.
But to say all spreadsheets are evil is not right at all either.

Here's a one word tip.  Crossfoot.

GK

GK


On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 8:50 PM, <aclawhon at hiwaay.net> wrote:

> I haven't read this (yet), but it looks like an economics professor has
> written a book advancing a hypothesis that all us wage slaves are doomed
to
> misery and poverty while the folks who own and control capital will
> eventually own and control everything.  (I suppose this is the long
overdue
> update of "Das Capital" by Karl Marx.)
>
> The only problem with this professor's theory is that he relied on
> erroneous error-plagued spreadsheet data to support his "facts" and
> conclusions.
>
>   http://science.slashdot.org/story/14/05/27/220202/why-you-
> shouldnt-use-spreadsheets-for-important-work
>
> Susan, maybe you can insert a chapter (or a few pages) into your upcoming
> Excel book warning people not to get too infatuated with spreadsheets.  (I
> wonder why articles like this aren't more prevalent about the misuse
and/or
> misinterpretation of data generated from databases?)
>
> Positive Alan of Huntsville
>
>
>


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