Speakers:

• David Chadwick - Senior Lecturer, University of Greenwich

• Grenville Croll – Andersen Business Modelling Group

The talk will be covering common spreadsheet errors - what they are, how they are caused, the risks they pose and what can be done about them. A taxonomy of spreadsheet errors will be discussed and examples shown with hopefully interaction from the audience to detect obvious errors. The aspects of causation such as human error, non-awareness and over-reliance on others will be discussed with suggestions on how to prevent or minimise. Audit aspects such as audit tools, methods and strategies will be talked about with possible examples of tools in action.

DAVID CHADWICK has been the Head of Information Integrity Research Centre for 4 years researching the teaching of audit and integrity issues. David has worked as an academic for 10 years, prior to which he worked in systems analysis and programming for the Wellcome Foundation and British Telecom. David is currently working with postgraduate researchers investigating spreadsheet errors and computing ethics. As part of his normal teaching duties he prepares undergraduate students for exemption from the IIA’s Information Systems Auditing paper.

GRENVILLE CROLL is a Manager in Andersen's Business Modelling Group in London. He specialises in advanced quantitative methods including monte carlo simulation, real options, neural networks and applied statistics. He has recently worked on a large project finance model for a media company and a high level review of a large set of complex nuclear liability models for a major industrial concern. Before joining Arthur Andersen Grenville worked for a specialist financial modelling company. Prior to that Grenville ran his own software publishing management training and consulting companies. Grenville has an Honours Degree in Computer Science and is a Chartered Engineer.

A buffet will be available after the presentations.

Please contact Janet Cardell-Williams to reserve your place on this important event.  Alternatively used the on-line booking form.

Only 40 places are available.

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