Finance Topic

Amazon has been hit lately with some bad press surrounding its work culture. The spate of articles was kicked off by the New York Times article describing the “brutal” work culture in Amazon followed up by other publishers’ smaller articles commenting on an aspect of the main article. The NY Times article was pretty damning…

Yesterday I worked on pulling data for an invoice and as usual, I double checked prior months’ numbers. Why do that? They are not supposed to change. Well, in a public company, prior months’ numbers are supposed to remain the same. If you change them, then that’s called restating the financials and that’s frowned upon….

I need to stop watching videos – they are such a time sink. Because of the Donald Trump comedy show, I’ve been watching comedy videos, most especially Bill Maher’s, and boy, are they biting and funny. The problem is, I’m not doing anything but watching videos. There were a few videos from Bill Maher concerning…

For a while, college students were turning away from finance as a college major, due to the poor reputation finance had right after the near crash in the fall of 2008. Then a month or so ago, a writer expressed dismay that college students were back to seeking MBAs or finance degrees. The smartest of…

For far too long, the stated purpose of business was to provide shareholder value, with endless increases of profit and in some cases “returning” money back to the shareholders. But have shareholder really earned the right to such money? Have they been providing value to the business? Now people are starting to ask about the…

Some further quick points I didn’t mention on my prior post as they didn’t fit in with the general theme of the earlier post. First Paul Krugman weighed in with his comment that some commentators have mentioned Greece’s history of having their debt relieved after WWII. So he’s on that bandwagon, too. And Seth Godin…