Archive for April, 2007

You are a programmer

Shortly after first learning how to use spreadsheets ( only 17 years ago ) I had a conversation with a friend along these lines:
Me - Creating spreadsheets is a little bit like programming. In fact, you could say that it is a sort of programming.
Friend - Programming? Spreadsheets? They don’t look like programming to […]

The Reconciliations of an Accountant

An accountant doing a reconciliation

Relationships aside, management accountants often find themselves having to reconcile a number of things. The obvious one is the reconciliation of a bank statement to the accounting records. Since most organisations in the developed world have a bank account, the need to perform bank reconciliations ought to be universal.
Anecdotal aside
I say […]