Normal business accounting rules?

Thijs van der Vossen, 16 Aug 2006, 08:58 in business, last updated 16 Aug 2006, 21:00 (edit).

Email from Skype:

You’re receiving this email around 30 days before your Skype Credit balance expires. Skype Credit expires 180 days after your last purchase or SkypeOut call. If you’re not using your balance we need to expire the credit sooner or later to comply with normal business accounting rules. Not very exciting, but true.

If you have any idea what these ‘normal business accounting rules’ exactly are, please let me know.

Comments

  1. Andy about 6 hours later: (delete)

    Those are normal business accounting rules in the VOIP world for sure. Lots of VOIP (SIP) providers allow you to make 'free' phone calls as long as you have a certain prepaid balance with them. Actually your balance is in effect a hidden subscription fee because you are forced to use up your balance within a certain amount of time. However, If you place a short 1 minute call to your landine the counter should be reset (at least for SkypeOut I think) so you will only 'bleed' 2cts per 6 months ;-)

    -andy

  2. Thijs van der Vossen about 7 hours later: (delete)

    So this is just part of their business model, there's no government rule of tax regulation that forces them to do this?

  3. Andy about 22 hours later: (delete)

    No idea if there's a government/tax rule behind it.

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