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by jsmith99 6y ago
To be pedantic, although most intangible assets can be capitalised, IFRS does not allow capitalisation of internally generated brands. If you buy a company then you can capitalise any brands you obtain on acquisition. Development expenditur
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Accountants != Economists Many ERP systems do use the convention that debits are positive numbers and credits negative and so only have a single column for amount. This is possibly more confusing for non accountants as they have to understa
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Gnucash doesn't hide the double entries; on the contrary, it shows little else.
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When I lost my kindle on easyjet I reported it to them unsuccessfuly. Months later I was contacted out of the blue by the airport lost property who had turned it on to deduce the owner's contact details. I asked if they had received th
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Eliezer Yudkowsky explained it nicely[0]: This just in! The Fed will allow schools and hospitals to use its $1.5T repo line, letting any school with $1B in Treasuries temporarily exchange them for $1B cash for 3 months. "We have no i
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At about £106bn for 531km, that's £200m a km. If the line were built out of a stack of twenty pound notes, it would come to about £100bn. So HS2 costs about the same as a 500km stack of twenties. Only a million people live in Birmingha
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fread is amazing. Whenever I look at the docs and see all the options for dealing with nested lists (like the within-column-seperator) I always pray never to have need of such a thing.
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Fastmail lets you create wildcard identities like this so you can send from any username at any domain you have with them, but if you are sending from a third party app you usually still need to set up the sending identity in the app itself
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I originally assumed it wasn't a woodcut because the woodcuts I've seen were mostly simpler, and I confirmed it by googling the artist. I now know that woodcuts can rival etchings in complexity, but looking at the biography of the
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That's not a woodcut. It's acid etched on metal.
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I think the cool kids are moving to DOS on Dope or Cobol on Cogs.
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I wonder if domain email can look pretentious or confusing to non technical people. I own a few domains, including <firstname><lastname>.com and <initial><lastname>.com but I don't work in IT (I'm an accoun
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You can still save locally with Office 2019/O365. You can change the default save location to local hard drive and ignore the cloud options. Onenote 2016 supports local notebooks. Microsoft gave up on killing it and even updated it rec
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Both were allegedly discovered at GCHQ: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malcolm_J._Williamson
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It helped that his wife was also named Evelyn, although the female version is pronounced slightly differently.
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Not always. At my old postcode someone had recently built a block of flats not quite large enough to get its own postcode. The postcode also contained an older block of flats and some houses. We were flat 9 but the postcode contained two fl
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> I still remember in one of the classes when Boneh was talking about the Diffie-Hellman protocol he paused to ask us, "Do you know where this was invented?" Nobody knows, then he pointed to his left and said, "In a room a
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Chip makers do use a lot of toxic chemicals such as pirahana solution and carcinogens https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-06-15/american-...
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MS SQL has row level security too.
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Git Bash is nothing to do with WSL.
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Banning non compete deals often makes sense, if they have become a standard part of terms and conditions and are hard to avoid. But people flying budget airlines usually have many other choices. Often they could upgrade to an exit row seat
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by jsmith99 7y ago
Scrapy doesn't run javascript so it can't scrape client rendered content at all. There are projects that combine scrapy with a headless browser or javascript engine.
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On Windows, clipboard items have hidden tags added when they are copied, so the program you are pasting into can make these decisions, instead of the program you are copying from needing to manipulate the copied text. For example, if I copi
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Of course USGAAP is not the only financial reporting standard (I posted a parent comment and I work in the UK on IFRS which is used in almost every other country) but US audit standards are quite close, and converging, to International Stan
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Full ERP? For what size organisation? I expect the finance team are using a 'real' ERP behind the scenes and posting the values from the custom system manually every month, copying and pasting from it almost as if it was an old fa
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As a financial auditor, if a client uses SAP or some other standard ERP we can just ask for a general ledger report and get to work. If they are using something bespoke I would probably put my head in my hands and send an urgent email to ou
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They would be unlikely to report an income stream seperately unless it was material. Materiality is a matter of judgement but most auditors would use about 1% of revenue.
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I see plenty of buskers and homeless sellers of The Big Issue accepting contactless here in London, although still a minority.
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Dilute with extra gin.
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Yandex is actually a serious option. They allow you to use multiple personal domains for free. Main disadvantage is the occasional untranslated error message.

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