You don't need to become an overnight financial guru, after all, understanding the subtleties of accounting and financial statements can be a lifelong pursuit.
In the market for personal accounting software for non-professionals to use in preparing their income tax returns, many of our competitors are outselling us.
Mr Woodford alerted Olympus's auditors, commissioned a review by an outside forensic-accounting group and asked for the resignations of Mr Kikukawa and an associate.
But by 2002 the Wall Street Journal was describing a different world, in which accountants had gone from "watchdogs to lapdogs," telling clients whatever they wanted to hear.
Despite the prevalence of Web-based applications and other tools, Web 2.0's most noticeable impact on business in the last three years or so has been in the area of social computing.