Examples?
Excel is not 100% perfect, but without specific examples I doubt if anyone
(especially your boss) will take this "Warning" seriously.
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Andy Wiggins FCCA
www.BygSoftware.com
Excel, Access and VBA Consultancy
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"Paul" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> I wanted to make a general comment about Excel for those of you that use
the
> spreadsheet to create journal entries for posting into your financial
> systems. With all of the concern and new regulations making sure that the
> financial statements of companies are correct, it seems relevant.
>
> I use Excel to summarize daily reporting into a monthly journal entry,
> actually several of them. I have found cases where the formulas in the
cells
> do not calculate the correct results, which would cause the journal entry
to
> be incorrect. The formulas range from simple "If" statements to "DSUM"
and
> "SUMIF" formulas. I have not been able to find a solution to the problem
> within my spreadsheets. The only explanation I can come up with is that
> Excel is not working correctly.
>
> I take pride in my work and eliminate as much "human error" as I can. But
> when I am using a spreadsheet that cannot produce accurate results, it
> becomes a reflection on me, not on the software I am using. I don't think
> there are many bosses out there that will accept the fact that software
with
> the Microsoft name on it will not work correctly.
>
> If this problem is actually within Excel itself, then it seems to me that
> Microsoft had better get its act together and clean up this software--and
> quick. I wonder how Microsoft would like to have a company sue because
they
> produced inaccurate financials due to the fact that this spreadsheet
software
> cannot function as it is supposed to.
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