is this "they have eliminated manual processes in accounting to improve the reliability of financial reporting."

Don't they mean they have "eliminated manual processes in accounting to reduce the financial reporting paper trail."

Corporate crap.

Tom Lehrer observed that "political satire became obsolete when Henry Kissinger was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize".

Now we have the news that "... financial leaders will be required to take accounting ethics training", managing to use the words "accounting" and "ethics" in the same sentence.

Please reassure me that you will still be here when I return tomorrow!

"they have eliminated manual processes"

Ah great - S/He always gets the blame in the end.... in this case it must have been fatal.

Believe it or not, but there are also such things as IT-dependent processes, and automated IT processes...

Welcome to the tech age

Oh, and regarding the article - the mixed use of the word "income" (used both to indicate revenue as well as net income) is misleading.

Say , these self wanking accountants are not ex Arthur Andersen Enron Audit Staff by any chance ?

Sounds like Computer Associates all over again. This saw Sanjay Kumar, the former chief executive, sentenced to 12 years.

Every month should have 35 days...

When did bad become a noun?

There was a misprice on ext hd's on the dell UK site a few days ago - 250gig usb/firewire £23 delivered.

Needless to say a few thousand appear to have been ordered but no one has had any word if they will honour the cockup

El Reg: Go Forth and investigate!

$150 M out of $12 B? That's a little more that .1% Michael can pull out his wallet and cover that much. Dell stock up 31 cents at 11:13 am CDT. Yup, they're being punished.

"managing to use the words "accounting" and "ethics" in the same sentence."

"There's no such thing as ethics in accounting" There, it's easy enough.

Gentlemen its the Republican Way. Anything for the "Almighty Dollar'

Don't think that I am a grumpy ole Democrat, Who likes Gun Control, Abortion Clinics on every corner, and Homo rights, (special rights)

No there is nothing left, no statesmen, no one interested in the welfare of our country.

Any thing for the dollar, we have forgotten Korea, Porkchop Hill etc, now we are at our on demise making China the most finacially rich country in the world. But it keeps the investers in the stock market fat. So!!

Hmmm, I wonder if this is why my Dimension desktop (not one of the will publicised XPS laptops that are delayed) apparently won't ship for another 5 weeks (despite original 2 shipping dates already slipping). 2 months to build and ship a basic desktop smells of cashflow to me...