From: "AG" <ang@xtra.co.nz>
Subject: Re: On accounting and engineering.(Slightly offtopic)
Date: Sun, 18 Aug 2002 08:30:18 +1200
Date: 2002-08-18T08:30:18+12:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <sly79.5895$hk3.1106657@news.xtra.co.nz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3D5E7447.5E3EB4DB@san.rr.com
"Darren New" <dnew@san.rr.com> wrote in message
news:3D5E7447.5E3EB4DB@san.rr.com...
> "John R. Strohm" wrote:
> > That is probably not unreasonable. Are you going to use that same
software
> > for more than 5 years? Or are you going to upgrade or replace it?
>
> Exactly. This just goes to show that engineers often don't even understand
> the most basic of accounting terms, like what "depreciation" means.
Except, perhaps, the programmers who wrote the accounting
packages in the first place. You don't imagine that today's
"bean counters" are doing it by hand? At least most of the time?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-08-17 20:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-08-16 22:58 On accounting and engineering.(Slightly offtopic) Caffeine Junky
2002-08-17 4:01 ` Adrian Hoe
2002-08-17 14:53 ` John R. Strohm
2002-08-17 16:05 ` Darren New
2002-08-17 20:30 ` AG [this message]
2002-08-20 9:34 ` Adrian Hoe
2002-08-20 14:57 ` Darren New
2002-08-21 3:26 ` Adrian Hoe
2002-08-21 3:53 ` Darren New
2002-08-21 19:38 ` Randy Brukardt
2002-08-22 10:01 ` Robert Dewar
2002-08-22 20:08 ` Randy Brukardt
2002-08-22 22:40 ` Larry Kilgallen
2002-08-20 17:42 ` Mark Johnson
2002-08-20 20:56 ` Darren New
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