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DIGITAL RISK
Defusing the Spreadsheet Time Bomb
Discover, control, and track spreadsheet data.
About this Article:
Spreadsheets are a powerful but dangerous tool. In untrained hands, they can present significant risk to an enterprise by making it possible—even easy—to make material misstatements on audited financial statements.
 Christopher Byrne, CISA, IBM CAAD (Lotus Notes & Domino R4, R5, ND6)/IBM CASA (Lotus Notes & Domino R5, ND6), is vice president and practice manager for the information systems audit and assurance practice of The Cayuga Group, LLC located in Athens, Georgia. He has extensive experience conducting management reviews and control self-assessments for a wide range of areas. He is a Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA), and passed the Uniform CPA Examination in 1995. A member of the Compliance Solutions Advisor Editorial Council, he writes about corporate governance, IS governance, and business control issues on his blog at http://www.controlscaddy.com.
ARTICLE INFO
Web Edition: 2005 Week 01, Doc #15056
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Keyword Tags: Business Technology, Compliance, Corporate Compliance, Corporate Governance, Digital Risk, IBM, IBM Lotus, PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), Sarbanes-Oxley, Security, Spreadsheet, Training
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