402709 01: Stadium employees remove letters from one of the Enron Field signs March 21, 2002 in Houston, TX. The Houston Astros paid $2.1 million to get back the naming rights to their stadium from collasped energy trader Enron. (Photo by James Nielsen/Getty Images)

Dear Analyst #87: What we can learn about Enron’s downfall from their internal spreadsheet errors

Everyone is probably familiar with the 600,000 emails released by Enron after their scandal right at the turn of the century. A lot of different analyses was done on those emails, but there’s one interesting analysis that I didn’t see until recently: the emails with spreadsheets as attachments. Felienne Hermans, a computer scientist at Delft […]