Practitioner's Diary: The temperature's rising!

It does seem that mentioning that other word ending in 'x' on this site does provoke as much interest so I'm not surprised at the number of viewings but maybe it is because of the apparent gulf between accountancy and the real world that makes it so exciting when they collide.

And Nichola, AW's very own Rob Lewis came to our conference last year, maybe he missed the naughty bits !

Now...back to the M.D's wife, we need to know!

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Nichola,

I've just had the great fortune to have attended the CIMA Members in Practice conference last Friday and Saturday as MC. I'm a conference regular and noticed a considerable prevalence of sexual references in the presentations offered over previous years - or have I just got a dirty mind! No one objected though, and they certainly weren't all auditors!

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I agree with the poster below - we need more sex in this section - apparently millions of people Google the term 'Sexy Accountants' (I expect there'll be a few more now) - this must indicate a hidden fetish that needs bringing out. Certainly many of our male clients are very keen to bring their records in to our attractive female staff rather than post them - I don't get many queues outside my door though!

Frustrated of Stoke

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that those in tax are not getting enough? Mind you, it was an interesting query in its own right.

I don't think I have ever heard a reference to sex or even the most modest sexual innuendo at any tax conferences.

I see that a recent Any Answers query of the topic of Massage or Prostitution or what? has attracted 42 responses (including some from me!) and nearly 2,000 viewings.

What does this mean?

David

I have just been sent something which does not have a title but is basically "Sex and the auditor", which er, recounts the experiences of an audit manager who is anything but dull... I was wondering what to do with it, but if there is demand...

as someone who thinks the same as you about P11Ds (or should that be "thought the same"?) is stuff the P11Ds and stuff the MD's ....!

Some excitement at last on AccountingWeb!

Are you just whetting our (male) appetite until the moment when you tell us what she said? Please say yes!

It is frustrating for the system to go wrong/ I live in west country and operate
in London/ I found BT broadband the best and most reliable in both areas (I tried talktalk but no comparison)/ and now there help line is free/
the few problems I had were sorted without too much trouble/

Our local council has at last decided to offer us special clear plastic sacks (at a price) for a new separate plastic and cardboard collection - although only to businesses, not to domestic properties. So far so good. I fear that the next step will be to penalise us for excessive use of the general waste bags.
They now have a statutory obligation to provide at least one form of pretreatment for business waste.

And just to show how well though out the new service is, when we put a stack of flattened cardboard boxes out for collection we have to tie one of these new plastic sacks to the bundle!! Why not sell us simple, bio-degradable prepaid labels?
I suppose if they did that, someone would ask why they couldn't supply bags! LA officers ( and I'm one) may not be the most innovative and pre-paid bags are a long standing method of demonstrating that the service has been paid for.
Cardborad is always a problem due to the large size but low density compared to other wastes.

You could try Mercia. They send you DVD's in the post. You can watch them on a PC (I assume yours have speakers), the notes are included for you to print off. I think that you can send in questions. I think that they are very reasonably priced.

Interesting. We've long held the view that the online world is far from practical. Reliability and speed are still major issues for us and it's good for this to be raised.

Bob Harper
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Offline software provider