Trainboy85 wrote:
This is a something i need to know for an IT Assignment and this is that only
thing i don't know.

Spreadsheets started out life as electronic versions of analysis paper.
(and if you don't know what THAT is go to your local stationers and ask
to see some!). Their primary role was and is, the manipulation of
financial data into user and management-friendly formats. The fact that
some people now use them for fitness schedules(!) amongst other weird
and wacky things, does not detract from the fact that they are first and
foremost, financial tools.

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Interim Systems and Management Accounting
Gordon Burgess-Parker
Director
www.gbpcomputing.co.uk