BP, in turn, has said its contractors, including Transocean, made critical errors.

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Despite the purported goal of free markets, in recent years the OECD has taken to use the taxpayer money entrusted to it to promote policy recommendations via reports that have irritated member countries due to critical methodological errors, and incorrect, incomplete, or sometimes even fictitious data.

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But certainly the financial services industry, which often uses spreadsheets and PC-based models to calculate critical estimates and material asset valuation amounts, is at high risk for the inevitable errors that do occur.

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