Spreadsheet Professional

1. Spreadsheet Professional Getting Your Spreadsheet Numbers Under Control A 5 minute presentation by Mailbarrow www.mailbarrow.com

2. Accurate Spreadsheets • Accurate spreadsheets are important aren’t they? • We use them all the time to help us make decisions … but what if they weren’t accurate? • Research shows that over 90% of spreadsheet models contain errors! • Which is why Spreadsheet Professional was invented! • It’s the only tool that comprehensively addresses this issue.

3. What is Spreadsheet Professional? • Spreadsheet Professional is an Excel Add-in. • It provides a comprehensive toolbox for building, documenting, testing, and using Excel files. • This means you don’t have to learn how to use lots of separate programs and try to get them working together. Spreadsheet Professional gives you everything in one package!

4. What Does it do for me? • Saves you time – it’s so much easier to audit, test or document a spreadsheet using Spreadsheet Professional! So spend your time doing something more interesting … go play golf! You’ll be wondering how ordinary people manage! • Saves you stress – with Spreadsheet Professional, you know that all the common errors will be automatically detected, plus it helps locate logic errors too. So after going through a file with Spreadsheet Professional, you can relax about those numbers you just sent to the Board!

5. What Else? • Ever had to review someone else’s Excel monster? It’s a breeze with Spreadsheet Professional – within seconds, you get a birds-eye view of how the file was put together and where errors may lurk. Put the monster back in its place! • “What about horrible formulas?” Spreadsheet Professional translates these into plain English so you can easily understandthem. It also provides a visual drill-down so you can see exactly what each part is doing and quickly understand even the most complex functions.

6. Sounds Fantastic! • It is! Here’s what some other people had to say: • “In my business, I can’t afford any embarrassing mistakes so I use spell check and grammar check in Word. I do the same thing in Excel with Spreadsheet Professional.” • “I’d been searching for something like this for ages. Thank you so much! It has transformed my Excel files! And I can’t believe how easy it is to use!” • “We only have limited resources so we can’t afford to spend too much time auditing key spreadsheets. Spreadsheet Professional enables us to quickly find all the simple errors and allows our auditors to focus on the spreadsheet logic.”

7. Cost vs Benefit Analysis An organisation with 25 Excel users: SSP Software Cost per User: $422.50 (Australian ex GST) Initial Training per user: $250 (estimated time cost) Software annual maintenance: Nil Upgrade cycle: 3 years Average cost per user per week: $4.31 Average Spreadsheet Error: $10,000 (estimated) Even if SSP only prevents 1 error per year in the entire company, the benefits are $30,000.00 over 3 years! Net Benefit to the company: $13,187.50 + time savings An organisation with only 1 Excel user/auditor: SSP Software Cost: $845 (Australian ex GST) Initial Training: $250 (estimated time cost) Software annual maintenance: Nil Upgrade cycle: 3 years Average cost per week: $7.02 Average Spreadsheet Error: $1,000 (estimated) Even if SSP only prevents 1 error of $1,000 per year, the benefits are $3,000 over 3 years! Net Benefit to the company: $1,905 + time savings What About an Organisation with Fewer Users? It doesn’t take much to see that Spreadsheet Professional really adds up! SSP = Spreadsheet Professional

8. Summary • You need accurate spreadsheets because errors cost time and money. • Most spreadsheets contain significant errors so you need to find these as efficiently as possible. • Spreadsheet Professional solves this problem for over 6,000 companies worldwide because it’s the world’s most comprehensive tool for addressing these issues. • Even if Spreadsheet Professional only finds one error in your organisation each year, it pays for itself many times over. • So don’t delay! Get the benefits of Spreadsheet Professional happening for you today! • Get your spreadsheet numbers under control!

9. Purchasing Spreadsheet Professional • Purchasing Spreadsheet Professional is easy! Just contact your local distributor: • Western Australia: www.mailbarrow.com • Australia Other: www.exceleratedconsulting.com.au • Other Countries: www.spreadsheetinnovations.com • Don’t delay! Get the benefits of Spreadsheet Professional happening for you today!

10. Mailbarrow Services • Mailbarrow (www.mailbarrow.com) specialises in Excel development, auditing and consulting. • Our services include: • Independent spreadsheet auditing, testing, and review • Spreadsheet development and re-development • Spreadsheet modelling best practice consulting/training • Our clients range in size from large listed companies through to startups, small businesses, and even individuals. • We’ve helped clients in banking, investment, government, heavy manufacturing, mining, real estate, bio-technology, television, retail, software, professional services, the military … and many others all over the world.

11. Mailbarrow[ we excel ] www.mailbarrow.com info@mailbarrow.com Ph + 61 4 1258 1486 Fax + 61 8 6210 1662