Preliminary programme as of 1 June 2003 European Spreadsheet Risks Interest Group 4th annual conference Thursday 24 - Friday 25 July 2003, Trinity College, Dublin. Website www.eusprig.org Theme: 'Building Better Business Spreadsheets - from the adhoc to the quality-engineered' Sponsored by ECDL, ICS, KPMG, ISACA UK Introductory address from Dean Buckner, Financial Services Authority, London. Standards, policies, and training to reduce spreadsheet errors. 1) Accuracy in Spreadsheet Modeling Systems Thomas A. Grossman OPMA, Haskayne School of Business, Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Because industry has tolerance for system inaccuracy, errors in spreadsheet implementations may not be a serious concern. Spreadsheet productivity may be of more interest. 2) The Wall and The Ball: A Study of Domain Referent Spreadsheet Errors Richard J. Irons Faculty of Business and Law Central Queensland University Australia. Spreadsheet error making is influenced by domain knowledge and domain perception. Qualitative findings also suggest that spreadsheet error making is a part of overall human behaviour. 3) Research Strategy and Scoping Survey on Spreadsheet Practices Thomas A. Grossman OPMA, Haskayne School of Business, Calgary, Alberta, Canada Özgür Özlük ISBA Department, College of Business, SFSU San Francisco, CA, USA We propose a research strategy for creating and deploying prescriptive recommendations for spreadsheet practice ... existing practices and ideal practices can be combined into proposed best practices for deployment. 4) Audit and change analysis of spreadsheets John C. Nash, Neil Smith, Andy Adler School of Management, University of Ottawa, Canada We present some tools we have developed to enable 1) the audit of selected, filtered, or all changes in a spreadsheet, that is, when a cell was changed, its original and new contents and who made the change, and 2) control of access to the spreadsheet file(s) so that auditing is trustworthy. 5) Reducing Overconfidence in Spreadsheet Development Dr. Raymond R. Panko University of Hawai`i, USA This paper describes two experiments in overconfidence in spreadsheet development. The first is a pilot study to determine the existence of overconfidence. The second tests a manipulation to reduce overconfidence and errors. 6) Correctness is not enough Louise Pryor, Edinburgh, UK It is often difficult to tell whether the spreadsheets in question are correct, and even if they are, they may still give the wrong results. These problems are explained in this paper, which presents the key criteria for judging a spreadsheet. Product Demos a) CodeTracer - a Spreadsheet Visualisation and Analysis Concept b) Atebion - a mathematically- based tool to spreadsheet integrity ========================================== Patrick O'Beirne, local organiser for Eusprig 2003 www.eusprig.org 'Building Better Business Spreadsheets: from the ad hoc to the quality engineered' July 24/25 2003, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland Systems Modelling Ltd. Suite #2, Villa Alba, Tara Hill, Gorey, Co. Wexford, IRELAND Tel: +353 (0)55 22294 Fax: +353 (0)55 22165 .