Friday, December 01, 2006

How do you know which spreadsheets to review?

Excel has permeated all of our business processes as it provides a flexible and simple-to-create development platform. However, the mini-systems built in Excel can be rife with errors given the lack of software methodology, poor security, and ease-of-change that comes with the Excel territory.

So how can you assess the risk of your entire Excel universe? You could manually open spreadsheets and asses them against a checklist of common list of risk symptoms. That process could take months to finish and, once done, all of the spreadsheets under review could have been changed….for the worse.

What’s needed is a methodology that allow you to efficiently analyze your entire Excel risk universe, and the automation to do it in minutes. Tools exist to make this happen and see the below link for more information on an upcoming learning event:

http://www.mrexcel.com/webinar.html