Spreadsheets are one of the most versatile and widely used tools in the business world. They offer an easy way to organize and manipulate data, make calculations and create visual representations of ...

SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Incisive Software today announced results of a study that evaluates spreadsheet risk. The findings confirm companies are exposing themselves to financial and ...

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 ...

Spreadsheets create an illusion of orderliness, accuracy, and integrity. The tidy rows and columns of data, instant calculations, eerily invisible updating, and other features of these ubiquitous ...

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 ...

Before bookkeeping software, accountants used handwritten spreadsheets to track business expenses. Now you can use programs, such as Excel to design expense spreadsheets and do the math for you, but ...

There was a time when spreadsheets ruled the world. It seemed as if there was nothing a sharp Excel spreadsheet and some targeted functions couldn’t accomplish. Those days are gone now. Excel may ...

Data. Your business can't run without it. As a small-business owner, you need to track everything – from your inventory levels to the personal information of employees. Many entrepreneurs start off ...

I recently wrote about five ways spreadsheets kill your business. Spreadsheets are a versatile tool for performing quick, ad hoc data analysis, developing presentation materials, creating small ...

Microsoft reports that well over 1 billion people use Office, the suite of applications that includes the Microsoft Excel spreadsheet. Roughly 1 in every 6 people on Earth use it. It’s certainly easy ...