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Spreadsheets and Long Term Corporate Survival
Grenville J. Croll
We have conducted an empirical investigation into the long term survival rates of some small but representative samples of the 30,000 largest UK limited companies. These companies…
An Insight into Spreadsheet User Behaviour through an Analysis of EuSpRIG Website Statistics
Grenville J. Croll
The European Spreadsheet Risks Interest Group (EuSpRIG) has maintained a website almost since its inception in 2000. We present here longitudinal and cross-sectional statistics fro…
Evaluating Financial Model Performance: An Empirical Analysis of Some North Sea Investments
Grenville J. Croll, David F. Baker, Ola Lawal
Fifty North Sea oil & gas investment transactions were analysed using traditional spreadsheet based financial modelling methods. The purpose of the analysis was to determine if the…
Computers and the Conservation of Energy
Grenville J. Croll
The purpose of this report is to show that computer and allied technologies can be used to increase energy efficiency. The report is divided into transport, industrial, commercial…
Spreadsheets and the Financial Collapse
Grenville J. Croll
We briefly review the well-known risks, weaknesses and limitations of spreadsheets and then introduce some more. We review and slightly extend our previous work on the importance a…
Spreadsheets in Clinical Medicine
Grenville J. Croll, Raymond J. Butler
There is overwhelming evidence that the continued and widespread use of untested spreadsheets in business gives rise to regular, significant and unexpected financial losses. Whilst…
The Importance and Criticality of Spreadsheets in the City of London
Grenville J. Croll
Spreadsheets have been with us in their present form for over a quarter of a century. We have become so used to them that we forget that we are using them at all. It may serve us w…