  We have conducted an empirical investigation into the long term survival
rates of some small but representative samples of the 30,000 largest UK limited
companies. These companies were either a control or known to have used, or been
interested in the use of, spreadsheets, spreadsheet based monte carlo
simulation software, other spreadsheet and decision analysis software and/or
related management training. We show that there is a material and statistically
significant increase in the long term survival rate of all of these groups of
companies compared to the control.
