Financial Accounting
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Strong demand for SAP skills in Asia
News Consultants face rosy job prospects, including good career advancement opportunities beyond the SAP field, industry observers say.
Tags: Enterprise resource planning (ERP)
IBM talks up "computing on demand"
News CEO Sam Palmisano outlines the company's vision of businesses buying computing power the way they buy electricity today. Big Blue is staking US$10 billion on that vision coming to pass.
Research firm IDC questions MDC's optimism
News A reality check on the systems integration (SI) landscape in the country conducted by IDC has revealed the Multimedia Development Corporation (MDC) is "overly optimistic" about projected revenues of MSC-status SI firms.
IBM highlights new threats
News IBM highlighted that virtualization, cloud computing and SaaS (software-as-a-service) are new vectors for security attacks, together helping to drive the security market in Thailand to around US$28 million this year.
Tags: Hacking, Virtualization, Software-as-a-service (SaaS), IBM Corp., Security, Thailand, Insider Threat, Digital Identity, Harley-Davidson Inc., financial accounting
Accounting rule change approved by FASB
News Change allows companies like Apple to recognize revenue much faster.
Tags: Business structures, Apple Inc., TV, Sales, Apple TV, financial, Apple iPhone, agreement, accounting, Business structures
Accounting rule change could boost Apple revenue
News Proposed change would allow Apple to recognize revenue for the iPhone immediately instead of over eight quarters.
Tags: Business Strategies & Functions, Cellular phones, Apple Inc., GAAP, IEEE 802.11n, Apple TV, Apple iPod, technology company, Apple iPhone, accounting
Short Take: IDA seeks views on telco accounting separation
News The Info-communications Development Authority of Singapore (IDA) released a consultation paper to seek industry feedback on the need for a service provider to separate the financial accounting of its various business units.
Software firms assemble for political pull
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VC predicts eventual rebirth of stock options
News Silicon Valley legend Tom Perkins says "financial engineering" will ease pain of stock option accounting rule.
Tags: Workplace, Accounting, Stock options and grants
Nortel hires CFO...again
News For the second time in a year, Nortel Networks brings in a new CFO who's actually an old CFO returning to the company.
Tags: Accounting
Interwoven opens more Asian offices
News Web content management solutions provider Interwoven Inc is expanding in Asia-Pacific, having identified "huge" market opportunities north of the region.
New stock options for Intel workers
News Intel said it will issue additional stock options to most of its employees after the chipmaker's shares fell 65 percent in the past year.
MP3.com pulls out of planned SeeUthere.com buy
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Sun to open up N1 utility computing software
News Sun Microsystems is working on a mechanism to connect its N1 utility computing software to existing systems management setups, in an early attempt to manage data center gear from other providers.
Tags: Utility computing
IDA seeks views on telco regulatory issues
News The telecommunications industry and members of the public have been invited to provide feedback on two new consultation papers released by the Info-communications Development Authority of Singapore (IDA).
