Accenture
Accenture aren't auditors either....
Posts by Steve K
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IBM looked to reinvigorate its 'dated maternal workforce'
'Boombox' function sparks Tesla recall
Sunday 13th February 2022 10:50 GMT
Greensleeves
In the UK at least, they should play “Greensleeves” (on a Glockenspiel) from the speakers as the safest tune.
People will (in the warmer seasons) either look round as they fancy an ice-cream, or in the colder seasons look round and wonder who is trying to sell ice-cream in the cold.
If they are going fast enough, people will still hear but can always quote Eric Morecambe and say “he’ll never sell any going at that speed!”
Raspberry Pis gain power to flash their own OSes with new network install function
12-year-old revives Unity desktop, develops software repo client, builds gaming environment for Ubuntu...
Second Trojan asteroid confirmed to be leading our planet around the Sun
New York Times outlays seven-figure sum for 1,900 lines of JavaScript – yes, we mean Wordle
He ain't heavy, he's my brother: Bloke gives away SpaceX ticket because he was over weight limit
BlackBerry offloads its 'legacy' patents – some of the stuff that made its phones hum
HPE has 'substantially succeeded' in its £3.3bn fraud trial against Autonomy's Mike Lynch – judge
Friday 28th January 2022 14:46 GMT
Re: Absolutely ourageous
Stock-takes are usually given to the junior trainees since it often involves being on a remote, cold
industrial site at an early hour at a weekend or public holiday, up a ladder or in a warehouse trying to find a serial number for a widget or dipping the level in a huge oil storage tank.
Then they take you for a cuppa while they pump whatever was in the tank into the next one so that's full too when you get to it....
Or when counting vehicles, they drive them round for you to tick off the reg numbers, and then drive them round the corner and back past you again after swapping the plates over...
Or Trainee:"what's your stock valuation policy? FIFO/LIFO/Weighted Average". FD "FOFO - F@ck off and find out""
Or (possibly my favourite), a car factory says that there are some cars with luminous paint destined for the Scandinavian market parked amongst all the others (hundreds). The trainee doing the stock-take is given a torch and a blanket to go and find them. After 30 minutes they happen to glance back at the main factory windows to see most of the workforce laughing at them....
But I digress (I was a Coopers & Lybrand audit trainee nearly 30 years ago....)
Friday 28th January 2022 14:37 GMT
Re: "The finding is a massive victory for HPE"
After all, Deloitte were deceived / allowed themselves to be deceived
Precisely - if there is systematic collusion at the senior management level to deceive the auditors deliberately then there is not much the auditors can do about it, unless they get lucky and pick up on inconsistencies and start digging deeper.
Additionally a substantive testing approach (aka ticking and bashing transactions back to invoices/assets etc.) vs. a controls-based approach (i.e. rely on internal controls by testing those internal controls) could give differing results in a case of deliberate collusion to mislead.
ISO.org outage hits day 3: Still in the dark as the important matter of bunk bed standards enters discussion
Silk could tie up all-but-unbreakable encryption, say South Korean boffins
Head of Big Tech Expertise? Believe it or not, it's a UK.gov vacancy for a Whitehall job
Former Oracle execs warn that Big Red's auditing process is also a 'sales enablement tool'
APNIC: Big Tech's use of carrier-grade NAT is holding back internet innovation
Tesla driver charged with vehicular manslaughter after deadly Autopilot crash
Autonomy's Mike Lynch gets yet another judgment date as US extradition wrangling continues
Ad blockers altering website code is not a copyright violation, German court rules
More contractor pain: Parasol's sister firms, SJD Accountancy and Nixon Williams, confirm cyberattack
Alien life on Super-Earth can survive longer than us due to long-lasting protection from cosmic rays
Monday 17th January 2022 09:43 GMT
Black holes
Not a physicist either but:
A black hole "gobbles up light" only because light cannot travel fast enough along the spacetime infall to escape once inside the Event Horizon. It's a bit like trying to swim up a waterfall.
Light does not have mass, so that's not what is causing it (directly).
The sun will be losing so much mass (i.e. much more than the sunshine/coronal mass ejections we know and love presently....) at the Red Giant stage that Solar System planetary orbits will shift outwards due to this change in gravitational mass from the sun.
If the mass stayed the same then the density change wouldn't matter (unless we were then in the solar atmosphere in which case drag would send the smoking ember that was Earth spiralling in to the sun)!
Tesla Full Self-Driving videos prompt California's DMV to rethink policy on accidents
Could BYOB (Bring Your Own Battery) offer a solution for charging electric vehicles? Microlino seems to think so
Multi-day IT systems outage whacks umbrella biz Parasol Group amid fears of a cyber attack
Weed dispensary software company's ambitions pruned after Spotify trademark clash
Canon: Chip supplies are so bad that our ink cartridges will look as though they're fakes
The James Webb Space Telescope has only gone and deployed its primary mirror
Intel rolls out new Alder Lake chips for laptops, desktops
Wifinity hands customers bills for Wi-Fi services they didn't want but used by accident after software 'glitch' let 'fixed term' subs continue
Developer creates ‘Quite OK Image Format’ – but it performs better than just OK
Diagnosis confirmed: Oracle has a case of healthcare cravings, bought Cerner for $28.3bn as the cure
Tuesday 21st December 2021 09:57 GMT
Voice Digital Assistant
I may not be up-to-date with professional Voice Software, but the use of a "Voice Digital Assistant" in a clinical context fills me with horror.
Alexa/Google Assistant/Sir/etc. are clever, but definitely not fool-proof.
If a clinician has to check their work because the voice assistant is not 100% guaranteed-reliable then where is the time-saving?
(I do realise that in the NHS, doctors dictate their letters, which are then submitted to their outsourced medical transcribers (offshore - e.g. India) so presumably they still have to proof-read letters and correct them in the current system)
Dutch nuclear authority bans anti-5G pendants that could hurt their owners via – you guessed it – radiation
Thank you, FAQ chatbot, but if I want your help I'll ask for it
RAF shoots down 'terrorist drone' over US-owned special ops base in Syria
National Cyber Strategy will lead to BritChip for mobile devices by 2025, claims UK.gov
CompSci boffins claim they can recreate missing lines in log files
West Sussex County Council faces two-year delay to replace ageing SAP system for Oracle
Tuesday 14th December 2021 11:21 GMT
Re: Another important ERP project going off the rails before even going live
This is SaaS not on-premises Oracle ERP so there is no technical installation.
I think it's more likely a mapping gap at a functional level between what SAP (and customisations!) does and what Oracle ERP SaaS does - so a shortcoming from the requirements process in the pre-selection stage OR a realisation of what's involved in migrating historical data across and an associated descoping swinging into motion. This could be IT/Finance or more likely both!
Biting the hand that feeds IT
