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An empirical study of spreadsheet error-finding performance

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An empirical study of spreadsheet error-finding performance

Auteurs : Dennis F. Galletta ; Dolphy Abraham ; Mohamed El Louadi ; William Lekse ; Yannis A. Pollalis ; Jeffrey L. Sampler

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Accounting, Management and Information Technologies [ 0959-8022 ] ; 1993.

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- Ablex publishing company, Accounting domain, Accounting errors, Accounting expertise, Accounting research, Auditor, Cpa, Debugging, Device errors, Ehrlich, Expertise, Galletta, Interaction effect, International journal, Mackay, More errors, Novice, Parenthesis, Software, Soloway, Spreadsheet, Spreadsheet errors, Spreadsheet experience, Spreadsheet expertise, Spreadsheet experts, Spreadsheet novices, Spreadsheet performance, Spreadsheet software, Standard deviations, Total time, Variance.

Abstract

Abstract: Several well-founded concerns exist about the integrity and validity of electronic spreadsheets. Thirty CPAs and 30 MBA students volunteered to seek up to two errors planted in each of six spread-sheets to discover if expertise in the domain of accounting and the spreadsheet program would facilitate error-finding performance. Subjects only found, on average, about 55% of the simple, conspicuous errors on the small spreadsheets. As expected, both accounting and spreadsheeting expertise contributed to the subjects' error-finding rate, and those who performed this task with both types of expertise found the largest number of errors in the shortest time. Interestingly, while CPAs were more accurate than non-CPAs in finding accounting-related errors, spreadsheet experts did not outperform novices in finding spreadsheet formula errors. Also, while spreadsheet expertise contributed to greater speed, accounting expertise did not. Future research would further investigate the contribution of spreadsheet expertise to the error-finding task. Practitioners should be aware of the difficulties in finding even simple errors, and develop training programs to facilitate spreadsheet auditors' performance.

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https://api.istex.fr/document/2CB294CA3A2AF4AB7B97C91D5EB464E1A94FB85D/fulltext/pdf

DOI: 10.1016/0959-8022(93)90001-M

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An empirical study of spreadsheet error-finding performance

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