Monday, April 16, 2007

EXPENDITURE STRATEGY - RESEARCH IN MOTION

Research In Motion, BlackBerry 's maker, will cut $250 million in miscounted funds from pre-2002 earnings reports. The company also announced that its chief executive, Jim Balsillie, would surrender the chairman's post.

$250 million miscounted? Moral of the story: ‘creative accounting’ is BAD strategy. Accountants are and should remain scorekeepers not score cookers. It ultimately always hurts some business stakeholders and it should hurt the ego of a real businessman to depend on mere accountants for profits.


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