Sentence examples for spreadsheets from inspiring English sources

According to the European Spreadsheet Risk Group, spreadsheets were behind the collapse of the Jamaican banking system in the late 1990s, and their use was key in the development of collateralised debt obligations – the financial instruments that promised sub-prime mortgages could somehow become AAA-rated investments.

I have provided financial advice to a host of doctors, nurses and service managers and guided them through baffling spreadsheets and often impenetrable jargon to enable them to best use the resources at their disposal (time, money and human beings) to deliver the highest quality of care for their patients.

There is, though, a growing clan of transparent musicians trying to yank back the mystique-curtain on what it takes to make a living as an artist, from back in the day and more recently – sharing their private spreadsheets so that we aren't all starting from scratch or working from hearsay.

With budget week coming up I could not be more delighted to be swapping the spreadsheets for spangles on this glorious Sunday evening in May.

The Conservatives also have their manifesto to pull an economic rabbit out of the hat – and they don't need to release Treasury spreadsheets to justify what they hope to do.

Given Uganda's high rates of unemployment − youth unemployment is over 80% according to some estimates − the appeal of membership is clear However, at the Tiens headquarters, where members can print out their balance sheets, most leave the office holding spreadsheets indicating that they are owed almost nothing, if anything at all.

Kevin Farnsworth, a senior lecturer in social policy at the University of York, has spent the best part of a decade studying corporate welfare – delving through Whitehall spreadsheets and others, and poring over Companies House filings.

Or have we become so immersed in our own world of numbers and spreadsheets that we have ceased to care any more?

Whether they are tiny thermometers, miniature microphones, electronic noses, location detectors or motion sensors, all of them provide ever more information about the physical world, meaning that firms can add ever more cells to their corporate spreadsheets.

It will take some effort to convince everyone that a range of outcomes makes more sense analysts love to punch headline numbers into their spreadsheets.

TWO years ago Bill Small toiled at one of New Zealand's largest wineries, "pushing numbers around spreadsheets" and dreaming of striking out on his own.