But the deeper issues relate to Germany's economic policy.
The issues relate to how the two companies defined subprime.
How do these issues relate to the problems facing New Orleans today?
"Many of the recent issues relate to the move of our legacy billing and services platforms into one, state-of-the-art system," a spokesperson said.
At its most lofty, the issues relate to regulation and how near-private monopolies or cartels must deliver more effectively for consumers.
With Patrick Reed and Harris English currently in Ryder Cup box seats, Watson's early issues relate to whether Brandt Snedeker, Jim Furyk, Matt Kuchar and Keegan Bradley can overhaul them.
While the statement suggests that all issues relate to prior periods, it is very difficult given the likely scale of restatement to have any confidence in our previous forecasts for the current year and beyond.
While these issues relate to events that took place in the late 1990s and early 2000s, we are taking them seriously and are undertaking research to understand their accuracy, extent and context".
The novel is set in an Arabian Nights atmosphere, but many of the issues relate to Egypt's present problems: the corruption of those in power, social justice and the rise of the fundamentalist movement.
While most IT packaging issues relate to PC hardware, because it tends to be bulky and needs to be protected in transit, there is still a lot of wastage in software packaging.
Chairman Chris Cole said: The board is absolutely focused on completing the internal review to resolve the situation in a timely manner and release the company's interim financial statements at the earliest time...The indications are that these accounting issues relate to prior periods and that the current levels of new business sales by the company are as expected.
