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Documenting Spreadsheets

Human-Computer Interaction 2008-03-10 v1

Abstract

This paper discusses spreadsheets documentation and new means to achieve this end by using Excel's built-in "Comment" function. By structuring comments, they can be used as an essential tool to fully explain spreadsheet. This will greatly facilitate spreadsheet change control, risk management and auditing. It will fill a crucial gap in corporate governance by adding essential information that can be managed in order to satisfy internal controls and accountability standards.

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@article{arxiv.0803.0165,
  title  = {Documenting Spreadsheets},
  author = {Raymond Payette},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0803.0165},
  year   = {2008}
}

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12 Pages, 15 screen shots

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