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Sales Commissions and Spreadsheets - A Calculated Disaster

Overview Spreadsheets are overwhelmingly used in the calculating of sales commissions in most businesses. This is even more acute in small and mid-market businesses who cannot afford to build more robust systems. Given this sort of common use of this technology, it would be wise to understand the ramifications for businesses depending on this technology.

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Publisher	Cellarstone	File Format	PDF
Date Published	August 2006	Downloads	51
Format	White Papers
Topics	Sales - Marketing

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