Well... At least in EU all PLCs and if i recall correctly all LTDs too will have to move into accounting as defined in w:International Accounting Standards by January 2005, which focuses more on doing accounting the way that legistlators mean it to be done, not exploiting all loop-holes and just seeing that the letter of law is fulfilled. I don't know what the rest of the world is going to do about this unreliable accounting style that has run rampantant for some time according to the news. Juxo