Creative Accounting

Published on July 22, 2004 By CS Guy In Humor

Recently I’ve been working on resource allocation estimates for our next phase of work. This is basically an estimate of how many people are needed for each task for a three-month development cycle.

For example, Task A may need 1.5 heads, while Task B might need 0.5.

So I finish the estimate, and my boss shows it to his boss. We get a response along the lines of, “No that’s not right. You only have X number of heads to allocate. Change your estimates so that your total is X.”

This reminded me of a joke about accounting.

Comments

trina_p

on Jul 22, 2004

That's a funny joke - as for the top part - I didn't get it when I read it before and I don't get it now.

But just for you and to get it in the forums I'm replying

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