Florestan Bronstein
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Posted - 2011.02.14 15:47:00 -
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Edited by: Florestan Bronstein on 14/02/2011 15:56:43
annoyed at VV's questions... so I'll give my own answers to them simply to show that there are very different conceptions about how an audit should look like and what it should contain.
(1) You don't have to know anything about accounting to do audits in EVE.
Visit an accounting class and you'll see that most of the stuff you learn is very specific - how to deal with reserves, write-offs, deferred payments, bonuses/discounts, taxes/social security fees, ... none of which applies in EVE.
Even the parts that could apply in EVE (different ways to structure your accounts) are (almost) never used.
(2) Ask whether the POS is meant to be located in high-sec/low-sec/0.0/wh space. Nothing else.
Checking the POS setup is imo not the auditor's job, standings can be bought, POS gunners usually won't be able to save the day anyways and Anchoring I can be trained within 20 minutes whenever he should need it. If the POS is shared with other corporation members I won't have any influence on whether he keeps strict security settings for the life of his business venture or not, so asking about access roles etc. is pointless.
Maybe the POS has nice defenses now - maybe he will unanchor them the day after the offering has launched, maybe the guns have no ammo, ...
An auditor can only comment on the past and shouldn't gamble his reputation on forward-looking comments.
(3) Put it into the audit report. Ask whether he bought the character or trained him from scratch. Include that character in the usual checks.
(4) I'd tell him to go ahead and try. It's the auditor's job to check facts, it's the investors' job (and their job alone) to decide whether they are comfortable giving money to someone who might be playing well out of his league or not.
An auditor is not necessarily the business manager's consultant either (unless he gets paid for this and addresses the possible conflict of interest in his audit report) - if the business manager wants to get an audit on an offering that is obviously flawed/unlikely to fill, the auditor might point out some flaws in his audit report but nothing more than that.
(Rating agencies selling consulting services on how to structure an offering in order to get good ratings is a major problem IRL, no need to have it in EVE, too).
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