Govt requirements

A guy said he'd been asked by the accountants to provide a utility that would permit modifying any field in the accounts. He was suspicious, but the accountant people pressed him so he obliged.

A while later, the fraud people came in, and when they discovered this little utility, the accountant bunch said "that programmer wrote it, blah blah blah" so the fraud guys knocked on his door.

Unknown to the accountants ... the programmer said "Oh, that utility? Here's a log of *every* time it's been used, the change made, and the user who made it". The fraud guys had a field day as they went through it :-) Talk about covering your backside :-)

(The accountants had been moving sales figures around so that things "looked good" - dunno why but something to do with moving things between quarters.)

Cheers,
Wol