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Re:Finance Pros Say You’ll Have to Pry Excel Out of Their Co... by osrec on Thursday November 30, 2017 @04:48PM (#15819869)
Not really. In the long term, reg fines and dev costs balance out.
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Re:Finance Pros Say You’ll Have to Pry Excel Out of Their Co... by philipov on Thursday November 30, 2017 @04:53PM (#15819918)
Citation please.
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Re:Finance Pros Say You’ll Have to Pry Excel Out of Their Co... by osrec on Thursday November 30, 2017 @05:32PM (#15820238)
Pretty much every rogue trading scandal in the last few years is caused by some guy coming to the front office from the back and gaming the system with knowledge of its weaknesses. In more or less every case, poor front office controls, systems or data practices were identified as the root cause. Example https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/business/...
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Re:Finance Pros Say You’ll Have to Pry Excel Out of Their Co... by EpicEng on Thursday November 30, 2017 @08:12PM (#15821177)
And Lord knows software devs never implement poorly secured and/or buggy systems.
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