The Definitive Guide to Business Finance: What smart managers do with the numbers, Second Edition

Ten hard questions to ask or be asked

1	Have formulas, such as the sum of a column, been entered correctly?[*] [*] Believe it or not, I know of one quantity surveyor’s office where all the totals were being found with a calculator and then keyed into the spreadsheet by hand.
2	Has the correct order of complex calculations been preserved with brackets?
3	Does the word ‘Circular’ appear in the status bar, indicating that a formula erroneously references itself?
4	Is any part of a text entry erroneously truncated by the value in the next cell?
5	Has any row or column been omitted or truncated during printing because it did not fit in the printable area of the paper?
6	Have all relevant columns been correctly included when sorting a list? (For example, ...