Archive for June, 2008
Leap Year problem hits Irish bank
The Sunday Business Post newspaper (Ireland’s leading weekly paper dedicated to business news) carried a story this week about errors in calculating mortgage interest due to the 2008 Leap Year which have affected at least one Irish bank. This is an information quality problem we discussed previously on this blog.Of course, the bank’s are simply going to apply the interest missed […]
An electric (bill) shock
Courtesy of Cambridge News comes this story of a shocking electricity bill.
British Electricity provider N-Power sent a Cambridge woman a bill recently for just over stg£90million (US$ 177million). This was bemusing to her because she has availed of a pre-paid electricity meter. It would seem that for the woman to have run up such a bill would have […]
