two realities are identical. In the case of this company revenues were being misreported as well but to the downside and the company took it in stride, many of the division chiefs were very upset and it took a long time to convince them that the warehouse was correct but we spun it to them saying profits were actually higher as percentage as they now had a smaller
Financial data being misreported is a serious offense for SOX-audited companies. This in itself should force your users to move off Access/Excel to an auditable reporting platform such as Oracle. -- John Kanagaraj <>< DB Soft Inc Phone: 408-970-7002 (W) ** The opinions and facts contained in this message are entirely mine and do not reflect those of my employer or customers ** -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l