Common Excel errors have cost the financial world
Millions and even Billions of dollars in losses
Have you ever tried to
You can spend hours, if not days,
and in the end, you decide to simply write a new model.
Of the approximately 750 million users of Excel worldwide,
20% or 150 million can be considered Power Users.
6 million of those are in the US.
They all know the shortcomings of Excel.
It does this through its unique proprietary approach keeping the data separate from the logic and using rows rather than individual cells. This makes auditing and understanding the logic of a model virtually transparent. More importantly, the inherent problems of overwriting formulas, broken links, and omitted cell ranges are an impossibility in Firebird.
Rapid Model Development Technology
Separation of Model Logic, Input Data and Report Files
Tamper Proof Spreadsheets
Use of Line Numbers Instead of Cell References
Collaborative Spreadsheet Development
Fully Inclusive Line / Formula Coding
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