This week I have a small reprieve from my duties as auditor, as I’m taking part in a training course put on by the firm at the Hilton. The training is related to the internal Infor­mation Systems special­ization the firm offers, which will allow me to get more experience working with IS at clients and […]

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From a reader comes news that EditGrid has launched a private beta for an Excel plugin for offline work on spread­sheets. Pretty cool, as Mashable explains: As there are several levels of integration, the whole of the integration is rather seamless — it takes no time to load sheets from EditGrid to Excel, and you […]

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Kind of old news (it’s from January last year) but BDO Seidman has imple­mented commercial open source software to manage their nationwide network of member firms. Open source software is software whose under­lying source code is openly available and is usually licensed under the GNU GPL. What I like about open source is that the […]

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Intel’s Metro laptop concept is causing quite a stir and for good reason. The thing is a svelte 0.7 inches thin and 2.25 pounds, making it the slimmest and one of the lightest portable computers ever conceived. According to this BusinessWeek feature, Intel may produce the machine as early as later this year. But why would […]

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I have often wondered whether the tradi­tional method of providing audited financial state­ments to clients is really serving them as well as we could be. We print them up on nice thick paper with the firm’s letterhead and spiral bound the package with a tasteful, under­stated title page, followed by our solemn audit report. Is […]

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