Paul Nicholls

Well I thought it was about time I actually put together some accounts for VBE Software Development, after all I’m dealing with “real” money now so it seemed worth pulling it all together and finding out how much I actually make! Plus, technically speaking I do Business Accounting & Finance as part of my degree, it would be pretty shameful if I was too inept to collate my own accounts! (ahem, no comment on the number of mistakes I might or might not have made in generating a pretty basic record in monies in and out)

So, where do I stand? Given I don’t have a separate bank account for VBE Software, I just work from my personal bank account, everything considered, VBE Software has currently made a profit of £450! Now thats not a real £450 in my bank account, its probably been spent by me, personally, already - but in theory thats where it came from, and in theory on demand I could pay the money back into the company for investment etc. Even so, I was quite impressed with a £450 profit, total income was in the region of £1450, but a lot of that goes straight through the accounts to me as wages for direct work, for example RMGS were billed by the hour for my work on their website and that was paid directly to me as wages by VBE Software.

Read More: VBE Software Accounts 2007-2008

My target for this fiscal year: keep proper accounts from the outset, so you don’t have to spend a whole evening rummaging through old bank statements again.

Scary how there can be so much information about people “lingering” on the Internet, forgotten, misplaced and unconnected…

I recently came across udntgtme.blogspot.com, the website for a spoof band - udntgtme - that me, Steve, Andy and Chris formed for a day back in Sixth Form. I had completely forgotten this existed, and the only reason I realised is because I stumbled across on the images in my web server space. As if that wasn’t enough, I noticed a flash slideshow of photos (click Read More on this post to see it!) and wondered how it was being powered, turns out I have a flickr account as well! I wonder how many other things there are like this “lying around” on the internet, and how would I find them? In our so-called throwaway culture we are even throwing away websites and online accounts, polluting the www with redundant and out of date content.

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Why are photos from mine, Martin, Alex and Peters’ slightly psychopathic rampage of laptop destruction on a Polish internet forum? Anyone speak Polish and care to help out? The online translation was most intriguing yet a little unclear…

“Why yes wygl daÅ‚ laptop Ziobry when manifestations?
mp3-ki. Regular as customary is not uninspiringly. Whereas desponded to his house colleague ex militia as well interrogation (colleague overdraw ex paÅ‚owaniem) “

I was interrogating the laptop? I was in a milita group? I was despondent about my colleagues?