When managers hold endless meetings, the programmers write games. When accountants talk of quarterly profits, the development budget is about to be cut. When senior scientists talk blue sky, the clouds are about to roll in. Truly, this is not the Tao of Programming. When managers make commitments, game programs are ignored. When accountants make long-range plans, harmony and order are about to be restored. When senior scientists address the problems at hand, the problems will soon be solved. Truly, this is the Tao of Programming. -- Geoffrey James, "The Tao of Programming"

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David Reilly

David Reilly is deputy finance editor of The Wall Street Journal, where he has been a writer and editor for two decades. Previously he has been the Journal’s banking editor, global editor of its Heard on the Street column and has written extensively about major U.S. banks, the global financial and regulatory system and accounting issues. He has worked for the Journal in Brussels, London and New York and is the recipient of a Gerald Loeb and Overseas Press Club award. He can be reached at [email protected]




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PwC Sets Accord in Tyco Case

July 7, 2007
David Reilly
Jennifer Levitz
Case Files: Ezra Charitable Trust, et al. v. Tyco International, Ltd., et al. (including PwC)

Pact for $225 Million Settles Claims Involving Auditing Malpractice. Accounting titan PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP agreed to pay $225 million to settle audit-malpractice claims arising from the criminal misdeeds of top executives at Tyco International Ltd., marking the larg…