As students of a leading business school, we feel severely disadvantaged and unfairly treated by the restriction on the use of Excel for the Finance Final Exam. This petition serves as a means to show the Academic Board that, despite the risk of cheating, banning Excel is not the right decision.

In class, most of the assignments are illustrated using Excel. This is also the approach we will take as future managers.

Depriving us of the opportunity to test and show our knowledge of this tool during the most important exam of the semester is not the standard we expected when we applied to ESCP.