If we can blame easy access to guns for the rise in mass shootings then we absolutely can and should blame easy access to Excel for the rise in MBA's completely fucking up companies.
If you ban spreadsheets then only managers will use spreadsheets.
Spreadsheet bans actually increase rouge accountancy if you disarm
law-abiding spreadsheet users. The only thing that stops an MBA with a
spreadsheet is a nerd with a spreadsheet.
We need to limit the row and column capacity of the spreadsheets we let people own, and also mandate that they must press a key for every cell that needs to be (re-)calculated.
If we can blame easy access to guns for the rise in mass shootings then we absolutely can and should blame easy access to Excel for the rise in MBA's completely fucking up companies.