another year almost over. my brother is off facebook and on twitter. i blame the itouch. if you are reading this rich, you know it's true. not much to say here really. saw alvin and the chipmunks part 2 with the kids today. an oscar winner for sure.

Floods

HEavy rain and lots of floods this week. Cork city badly hit with the western suburbs and the west of the county flooded. No drinking water for large parts of the city including Mum's house. Tough times for people out there. Glad we are not affected. The road to passage is flooded tho and has been for a few days. Still very passable though.

Went out to get some plumbing stuff for the washing machine. what a nightmare. everytime i go to get stuff to get it plumbed in i get a new steer. i think i'll just pay the man to do it for me. there's talk of a trap now. where does it end. in fairness ob plumbing were very helpful.

off to holland the week after next with work. that'll be something to look forward to at least. won't see much of the place but a day out of the office and good networking in europe. never would've happend in IT i can tell you.

P8

P8 has a lot in it.
10% corridor - use the opening balances for obligation and asset to calculate the corridor and not the closing balances. Net off the assets and liablities and any unrecognised gains or losses to get the balance sheet figure.

Know IAS1 layout for the consolidate income statement and know where to put the figures for profit from associate and the MI figure.

Phew. And all this before cash flow. what an effort

Studying P8 right now. Trying to get my head around pension accounting and the 10% corridor. Off to Dublin tomorrow for 2 nights and then home and then Dublin for 3 nights for CIMA revision. Will miss the family. Roll on this being over!

Sadbh and me getting ready to trick or treat, Halloween night, 2009. Face paint proved the job and was suitably scary.

today

just set this up. am i dickens?