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ChatGPT and Excel -- trust, but verify
Patrick O'Beirne
This paper adopts a critical approach to ChatGPT, showing how its huge reach makes it a useful tool for people with simple requirements but a bad, even misleading guide to those wi…
Excel 2013 Spreadsheet Inquire
Patrick O'Beirne
Excel 2013 (version 15) includes an add-in "Inquire" for auditing spreadsheets. We describe the evolution of such tools in the third-party marketplace and assess the usefulness of…
Spreadsheet Refactoring
Patrick O'Beirne
Refactoring is a change made to the internal structure of software to make it easier to understand and cheaper to modify without changing its observable behaviour. A database refac…
Checks and Controls in Spreadsheets
Patrick O'Beirne
Spreadsheets that are informally created are harder to test than they should be. Simple cross-foot checks or being easily readable are modest but attainable goals for every spreads…
Information and Data Quality in Spreadsheets
Patrick O'Beirne
The quality of the data in spreadsheets is less discussed than the structural integrity of the formulas. Yet it is an area of great interest to the owners and users of the spreadsh…
Facing the Facts
Patrick O'Beirne
Human error research on overconfidence supports the benefits of early visibility of defects and disciplined development. If risk to the enterprise is to be reduced, individuals nee…