Spreadsheet error detection: an empirical examination in the context of Greece
The personal computers era made advanced programming tasks available to end users. Spreadsheet models are one of the most widely used applications that can produce valuable results with minimal training and effort. However, errors contained in most spreadsheets may be catastrophic and difficult to d...
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Vilnius Gediminas Technical University
2012-06-01
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| author | Dimitrios Maditinos Dimitrios Chatzoudes Charalampos Tsairidis |
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| description | The personal computers era made advanced programming tasks available to end users. Spreadsheet models are one of the most widely used applications that can produce valuable results with minimal training and effort. However, errors contained in most spreadsheets may be catastrophic and difficult to detect. This study attempts to investigate the influence of experience and spreadsheet presentation on the error finding performance by end users. To reach the target of the study, 216 business and finance students participated in a task of finding errors in a simple free cash flow model. The findings of the study reveal that presentation of the spreadsheet is of major importance as far as the error finding performance is concerned, while experience does not seem to affect students on their performance. Further research proposals and limitations of the study are, moreover, discussed. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-36d03a3cabef428ba8827d8f93a6a9382022-12-21T23:14:39ZengVilnius Gediminas Technical UniversityBusiness, Management and Education2029-74912029-61692012-06-0110110.3846/bme.2012.10Spreadsheet error detection: an empirical examination in the context of GreeceDimitrios Maditinos0Dimitrios Chatzoudes1Charalampos Tsairidis2Kavala Institute of Technology, Agios Loukas, 654 04 Kavala, GreeceDemocritus University of Thrace, Panagi Tsaldari 1, 69100 Komotini, GreeceDemocritus University of Thrace, Panagi Tsaldari 1, 69100 Komotini, GreeceThe personal computers era made advanced programming tasks available to end users. Spreadsheet models are one of the most widely used applications that can produce valuable results with minimal training and effort. However, errors contained in most spreadsheets may be catastrophic and difficult to detect. This study attempts to investigate the influence of experience and spreadsheet presentation on the error finding performance by end users. To reach the target of the study, 216 business and finance students participated in a task of finding errors in a simple free cash flow model. The findings of the study reveal that presentation of the spreadsheet is of major importance as far as the error finding performance is concerned, while experience does not seem to affect students on their performance. Further research proposals and limitations of the study are, moreover, discussed.https://www.mla.vgtu.lt/index.php/BME/article/view/4663end user computingspreadsheet error detectionspreadsheet presentationuser experienceGreece |
| spellingShingle | Dimitrios Maditinos Dimitrios Chatzoudes Charalampos Tsairidis Spreadsheet error detection: an empirical examination in the context of Greece Business, Management and Education end user computing spreadsheet error detection spreadsheet presentation user experience Greece |
| title | Spreadsheet error detection: an empirical examination in the context of Greece |
| title_full | Spreadsheet error detection: an empirical examination in the context of Greece |
| title_fullStr | Spreadsheet error detection: an empirical examination in the context of Greece |
| title_full_unstemmed | Spreadsheet error detection: an empirical examination in the context of Greece |
| title_short | Spreadsheet error detection: an empirical examination in the context of Greece |
| title_sort | spreadsheet error detection an empirical examination in the context of greece |
| topic | end user computing spreadsheet error detection spreadsheet presentation user experience Greece |
| url | https://www.mla.vgtu.lt/index.php/BME/article/view/4663 |
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