As a follow up to my post about spreadsheet risk and best practices have a look at this link from the European Spreadsheet Risk Interest Group (yes, I cannot believe such an organization exists either but they do.)
The site includes some downloads as well as examples of spreadsheet hazards at Canada’s TransAlta and the AIB/Allfirst fiasco which I wrote about recently, http://riskczar.com/2009/08/31/my-favourite-fraud-ever/
Thanks to http://twitter.com/manojkulwal at SAS Software in the UK for pointing this site out.
The Spreadsheet Risk field is much larger than you might imagine – there are academic research papers, standards bodies, risk assessment software and consulting firms.
Two of the better known academic researchers are Ray Panko, out of the University of Hawaii (http://panko.shidler.hawaii.edu/ssr/) and the Spreadsheet Error Research Project out of Tuck University (http://mba.tuck.dartmouth.edu/spreadsheet/)
My company, Jerts Consulting, is one example of a firm who has developed a spreadsheet risk management practice, dedicated to helping companies identify and mitigate Spreadsheet Risk.