Magento 1.8 - Hiding a field - is my method acceptable? - php

Question

I want to hide the COMPANY field from the Customer Account dashboard (don't ask why).
I found that the address is generated here:
/app/code/core/Mage/Customer/Model/Customer.php
I created a local version to override the core file and then changed public function getAddressesCollection() to the following:
public function getAddressesCollection()
{
if ($this->_addressesCollection === null) {
$this->_addressesCollection = $this->getAddressCollection()
->setCustomerFilter($this)
//->addAttributeToSelect('*')
->addAttributeToSelect('prefix')
->addAttributeToSelect('firstname')
->addAttributeToSelect('middlename')
->addAttributeToSelect('lastname')
->addAttributeToSelect('suffix')
->addAttributeToSelect('street')
->addAttributeToSelect('city')
->addAttributeToSelect('country_id')
->addAttributeToSelect('region')
->addAttributeToSelect('region_id')
->addAttributeToSelect('postcode')
->addAttributeToSelect('telephone')
->addAttributeToSelect('fax')
->addAttributeToSelect('vat_id')
->addAttributeToSelect('vat_is_valid')
->addAttributeToSelect('vat_request_id')
->addAttributeToSelect('vat_request_date')
->addAttributeToSelect('vat_request_success');
foreach ($this->_addressesCollection as $address) {
$address->setCustomer($this);
}
}
return $this->_addressesCollection;
}
I commented out the addAttributeToSelect('*') and replaced it with every customer_address attribute except for COMPANY.
Is this acceptable? It works but I want to know if it will have any obvious negative impact.
Thanks