I received an email late yesterday from the IASB with the following message: The Inter­na­tional Accounting Standards Board (IASB) issued today an Inter­na­tional Financial Reporting Standard (IFRS) designed for use by small and medium-sized entities (SMEs), which are estimated to represent more than 95 per cent of all companies. The standard is a result of […]

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Microsoft has the enter­prise market cornered with its Office produc­tivity suite. Skill with Outlook, Excel and Word is pretty much required in the corporate world. As a result, most companies have signif­icant data tied up in the propri­etary binary file formats doc and xls. This is not to mention all the web-based software designed for […]

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There has been a migration in recent years from the desktop as primary computer to the laptop. As the cost of the laptop relative to its perfor­mance specs decreased, more and more people were finding that the benefits of mobility and a small form factor justified moving to a laptop. Enter the netbook. These are […]

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A recent post on Coding Horror on pseudocode reminded me of my work as an internal auditor. You might think it’s strange that a blog post on a programming/development technique would make me think of auditing – well, you’re right. It is a little weird. But hear me out. Pseudocode is called that because it’s not […]

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Well, maybe not obsolete, but definitely less integral for the mobile profes­sional. I started using Dropbox roughly six months ago and have been consis­tently impressed with the service, single tweet of discontent aside. Dropbox syncs your files between computers on which you have their light­weight software installed. It creates a folder where you can store […]

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