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Friday, 06/09/2017 11:30:38 AM

Friday, June 09, 2017 11:30:38 AM

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So, this is a problem?

"While attempting to purchase assets from the failed Lehman Brothers, Barclays made a massive error that could have only resulted from someone not fully understanding how Excel works. The company had sent Lehman Brothers a spreadsheet of all the assets they wanted, but an employee looking to delete the assets the company did not want to purchase failed to understand the difference between deleting and hiding a row. As a result, when the company exported the spreadsheet as a PDF, all the hidden rows were included and sent off to Lehman Brothers for purchase. Barclays bought 179 extra assets thanks to the mistake."

Link: http://www.accountingweb.com/community/blogs/jowyang/how-to-avoid-the-worst-spreadsheet-blunders

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