Risks Digest 10 Mar 2002
Excel suggestions affects the inputs of education grades.
Excel often attempts to guess what you would like to type. If
you hit enter without noticing the suggestion you may enter
Excel’s suggestion and not what you want.Risks Digest 16 April 1999
A space entered in a number resulted in Excel assuming the cell
was text and ignoring it in the calculation. To see how this
happens, watch the video clip of how spaces affect IF
statements.
Toledo Blade May 1, 2004
A spreadsheet error results in the University of Toledo
overstating projected revenue by $2.4 million.October 2003, The Tennessean
Spreadsheet errors in the bids by ISIS meant that their
proposal, that appeared the cheapest, became more expensive
once the spreadsheet errors were corrected. This is a typical
example of undercharging due to spreadsheet errors in a tender
process. This is extremely likely in a tender process as any
errors made in the companies favor will result in the company
losing the tender. If the errors are the other way, it is likely
the tender will be won, and the losses will materialize
Orlando Sentinel September 12, 2003
Duplicated costs within a Henderson Young & Co
spreadsheet for Lake County Public Schools resulted in inflated
school impact fees of $12 million2002: Australasian intervarsity debating association
Debating association makes a spreadsheet error in the
tabulation due to the incorrect sorting of the data. |
Examples
of what goes wrong with Spreadsheets in Education