Revising the Panko-Halverson taxonomy of spreadsheet errors

Decision Support Systems

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 235-244

  Panko, Raymond R ^a   Aurigemma, Salvatore ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

Context error; End user computing; End user development; Error; Execution error; Lapse; Logic error; Mistake; Omission; Planning error; Slip; Spreadsheet; Spreadsheet error; Taxonomy; Violation

Indexed keywords

CONTEXT ERROR; END USER COMPUTING; END USER DEVELOPMENT; EXECUTION ERRORS; LOGIC ERRORS; PLANNING ERROR; SPREADSHEET ERRORS;

SPREADSHEETS; TAXONOMIES;

ERROR DETECTION;

EID: 77951116085     PISSN: 01679236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dss.2010.02.009     Document Type: Article

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