Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Spreadsheet" in English language version.
[...] the expenditures of these institutions are carefully audited by an accounting staff at the Department. A spread sheet showing every item of expenditure is prepared each month so that the superintendent is kept posted, not only on the amounts expended, but is able to see at a glance what the same items are costing in similar institutions in the Province.
We maintain, in our general ledger, a so-called Spread Sheet which is a long sheet with the name of each individual plant in a particular column.
TABOL Database Manager (TDM), an enhancement to the TABOL financial analysis language, was also introduced in August 1982
Some say that half of all IBM PCs, in their hundreds of thousands, are running just 1-2-3. Numbers— clever, quick, knowledgeable— boiling the stupidity out of countless business decisions. Interesting how essential the quickness is. It's 1-2-3's speed that put it on top.
Release 3.0 is being written in the computer language known as C, to provide easy transportability among PCs, Macs and mainframes.