Daily Telegraph - Only
a matter of time before the spreadsheets hit the fan
CFO.com 2007 - Conference
CFO.com 2008 - Conference
CIO.com - Eight
of the Worst Spreadsheet Blunders
Auditnet - Global
Resources for Auditors
Wilmott - Spreadsheet
Errors
The Mathematical Association of America - The
Risky Business of Spreadsheet Errors
The Institute of Internal Auditors - Improving
Spreadsheet Audits in Six Steps
The Register - How
to Lose $7.2bn with just a few Basic Skills
The Register - Excel
snafu costs firm $24m
EuSpRIG has been, and continues to be, invited to give talks & presentations internationally on spreadsheet risks and related tools and techniques:
Bank of England, May 2000, London, England
BCS-IRMA,
February 2002, London, England
IFIP, November 2002, Bonn, Germany
EURO/INFORMS, July 2003, Istanbul, Turkey
Foundations of Spreadsheets, September 2004, Rome, Italy
INFORMS, November 2005, San Francisco, USA
ISACA Central England, May 2006, Birmingham, England
ACCA London, March 2006, London, England
BCS-IRMA, September 2006, London, England
BCS Dorset Branch, November 2006, Bournemouth, England
ISACA-LONDON, June 2007, London, England
Eurofinance, March 2008, Antwerp, Belgium
Eurofinance, September 2008, Stockholm, Sweden
ISACA North, October 2008, Leeds, England
IACON Europe, 2009, Paris
IACON , 2010, London
The Department of Management at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand have produced an excellent series of Youtube videos explaining key aspects of the use of spreadsheets. The videos were developed by Dr Nicola Petty and edited by William Petty. They are used for teaching first year Quantitative Methods for Business and Management Science. Each video includes some element of spreadsheet checking or testing. We recommend them to you.
Absolute or Relative References in Excel
A light-hearted clip explaining the use of absolute and relative references in spreadsheets. Makes the key point that constants should be located separately and not embedded in formulae.
Spreadsheet style
Four basic rules for spreadsheet style, given in a light-hearted way. Identifies the different requirements between spreadsheets that are only used once by oneself versus spreadsheets that may be used more than once, by multiple users and after the passage of time. Continues the story of Helen and the Choco nutties.
Introduction to Excel Solver
A step-by-step explanation of how to use Excel Solver, with an example using children’s Lego bricks. Probably the clearest (and most amusing) explanation of linear programming there is. Demonstrates numerous positive aspects of spreadsheet style, addresses spreadsheet testing. Includes the classic statement “Make sure the spreadsheet works before using Solver”.
Understanding the p-value
A down-to-earth and light-hearted illustration of the use of the p- value in statistics.
Excel Scatter-plots
How to draw scatter-plots and fit a line using Excel, and what they mean. Promotes the useful concept of de-cluttering graphics.
Hypothesis testing
A description of how to test for the difference of two means. Continues the adventures of Helen and her Choco Nutties. Uses Excel to calculate the p-value relating to the difference between two means and provides a clear explanation. Introductory companion video to "Differences between means in Excel".
Differences between means in Excel
Teaches how to use Excel for hypothesis testing of the differences between two means. It is a follow-on companion video to "Hypothesis Testing". Illustrates the concept of checking that the output from an Excel Calculation is what you expect, and the related concept that many Excel reports are static and will not then change following changes to the underlying Excel spreadsheet.
Confidence intervals in Excel
A brief explanation of the nature of confidence intervals, followed by an example of finding a confidence interval of a mean in Excel. Demonstrates the uses of a simple check to ensure that the Excel output is as expected.
EuSpRIG has benefited from substantive and authoritative input from a senior member of the Financial Services Authority in previous years. In 2009 a keynote presentation was given by Deniz Sumengen of the Financial Reporting Council. We reproduce here the presentations given. We seek further active involvement from regulatory authorities and central banks.
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FSA - 2011 - Living with Spreadsheets
FRC - 2009 - Technical Standards for Modelling
FSA - 2007 - Regulatory Update
FSA - 2005 - Regulatory Update
FSA - 2004 - Why Banks use
Spreadsheets
FSA
- 2003 - User Computing in Financial Regulation
