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88% of your spreadsheets contain errors! how do you manage?

Researchers found out that88% of all spreadsheets used in business contained errors. (!) An enormous business risk. The advantage of the flexibility of Excel is seen as more important as the disadvantage of (un)controllability and error risks. http://w.marketwatch.com/story/88-of-spreadsheets-have-errors- How do you limit the risks of Excel? - tight control mechanisms? - limiting the use of excel? - replacing Excel by BI tools? - or other measures. ??

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Date de publication: 2013/10/07
Nitin Gupta, ACA
par Nitin Gupta, ACA , FP&A , Rockwell Automation

Simple re write the formullas. No point in correcting88% errors. 

 

How can you be sure you have not missed any error.

 

Rehan Qureshi
par Rehan Qureshi , Financial Consultant , Self Employeed

My suggestion are as follows:

Organize your workbook by function

Back up workbook generations

Perform reasonability checks of inputs and outputs

Reconcile your results with an ultimate truth

Use range names

Manage external links intelligently

Use line graphs to uncover unusual results

Zafar Iqbal
par Zafar Iqbal , Teacher (Pak Studies) Subject Specialist , Home Tutor

by debugging the formula we can remove the errors.

Mohammad Tohamy Hussein Hussein
par Mohammad Tohamy Hussein Hussein , Chief Executive Officer & ERP Architect , Egyptian Software Group

I think that this always the case when you try to use Excell to perform functions which involve decision making and business rules. Such an attempt leads to complicated interconnected sheets which leads to high error rates.

I suggest that if you use system designed to perform such functions and use Excell for what it can do best will get you pass such error rates.

we can use the IF function to control data entry. And lots more count If, average If  sum If or access  conditional formatting 

Tariq Ali
par Tariq Ali , Deputy Manager IT , Kohat Cement Company Limited

Best Practice that recreate spreadsheet from ZERO

Sawsan Hajeer
par Sawsan Hajeer , Section head of financial statements and budgets , National for employment and training company

Limiting the use of excel only for simple cases,using other  advanced measuers or systems implementation is the best on  a changing work inputs,processes....budget or other variables related to work in order to get the right reports

Mohammed Haseeb Musba
par Mohammed Haseeb Musba , Management Accountant / Senior Financial Analyst , International Food Services

Excel is good for Analysis, Presentation and User Freindly . To Avoid error there chould be control mechanism. Reporting in excel should be in atleast two format. And Linking tool should be used to control betweeen two spreadsheet.  

 

ERP has its own advantages and disadvantages. And Spread sheets too has its advantages. But Comparision of ERP and Spreadsheet is not so correct   

Usman Iqbal
par Usman Iqbal , Audit senior , Hyder bhimji , business center faisalabad

i dont think so , its better to leave Excel , just because it Will Result in human errors, its depend upon the person who control the sheet and he Can contol that erors, 

i go with opinion of Tight control mechanisms because every application have some inherent limitation, 

limiting the use of Excel not good idea as well as Replaceing , however a debate can be made on other measuers , and depend upon which measure and procedure , used to avoid these risks. 

 

Mohamed Elkharashy
par Mohamed Elkharashy , Production Planning Engineer , Amiantit

-Using conditional functions ( if , sumif, countif,etc.. )  to control data entry

-Using conditional formatting to highlight errors

-Using data validation

Shahnawaz Alam Shahnawaz
par Shahnawaz Alam Shahnawaz , Database Specialist , Intigral - United Arab Emirates

Excel spreadsheets give errors when you use external link or someone delete rows and columns which use in any formula.

Excel is very powerfull tool for analysis and creating dashboard. When you design any dashboard protect your cells and avoid to use external link. I would suggest you to write VBA code instead of complex formula.

 

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