There are few golden examples of corporate blogging policies that provide employees useful and necessary guidance on what they can blog about and how they should do it as it relates to company infor­mation. Sun Microsystems stands out as a company that actively encourages their employees to engage each other and the wider tech world […]

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Since the last one went so well, and since there have been many posts this week on my fellow accountant blogs that I’d like to highlight, here’s another quick round-up of three inter­esting nuggets: Dan Meyer of Tick Marks talks about a new standard in the US called FIN 48, which requires companies making assumptions […]

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According to Om Malik, Google is rumored to be coming out with an online spread­sheet appli­cation tomorrow, but I don’t think it’s going to have much of an impact. Why? Well, in my experience at least, every­thing I do in Excel is with data that I don’t want anyone, even Google (imagine that), to have […]

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The auditor for Hotels.com is Ernst & Young, and one of their staff working on the audit had their laptop stolen from their car, compro­mising the credit card data of approx­i­mately 243,000 customers. These things will happen, but what I don’t under­stand is whether they’re just assuming whoever stole the laptop is going to be […]

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