Anthony Healy wrote:
> "And Wall Street notices; a company's stock price tends to fall if it files
> a proxy statement that reveals large fees for non-auditing
> services--basically consulting and information technology services--from the
> accountant," says CNet.
I've been at the coal face with accountacy-based IT consultants. I have over
25 years experience in the IT and computing sectors. These clowns had a
combined experience of a handful of untrained years using spreadsheets, and
no Comp.Sci. or IT training was in evidence.
Someone's pulled a fast one in these cases. Inexperienced, overpriced (5 times
what I was being paid) and overtime. Incredible that management buys into these
types of consultants. They literally hold the company to ransom as they
pillage through masses of funding and deliver a consistently late product,
often one that doesn't work. The final stinger: they are of course outsourcers,
so they use naive understaffed clientele to apprehend and take up new technologies,
then run off to their next client as supposed "experts" in emerging IT methodologies.
And their original client is left in the dust with a huge knowledge and information
gap, filling in the blanks left behind with underpaid, under-appreciated permanenet
staff fixing the mess.
I won't mention any names to protect my own butt ;)
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