Finance Topic

I think we are approaching the end of the budgeting project. This week we had a meeting with the lender/investor who may have been the prime instigator for this budget process. I didn’t know it, but the first time we went through the budget last November, they didn’t like the fact that we didn’t review…

There has been a couple of articles about certifications, as if it is a panacea for the skills gap. But just because someone is certified, does not mean that person will be able to solve problems or be able to creatively come up with solutions. I once worked at a refinery where a peer, who…

If you want people, especially the powers that be, to care about income inequality, then you are going to have to appeal to them differently. Occasionally I’ll read about how inequality leads to higher stress, or poorer health or shorter lifespan, or some such outcome. But that presumes that the wealthy and the powers that…

Have you ever heard of anybody winning awards for great budgets? Me neither, at least, not in the industries that I came from. So why do we continue to work long hours on something people really don’t care about? I mean, they care but they don’t really care. There has to be a way to…

We were supposed to be done by Friday, but we might have gotten maybe 50% done. The first day we worked until 10:00 pm. The next day we were there until midnight. The following day 2:30 am. By Friday we were running low on energy and we finally had to quit when we received a…

Next week will be a long week as we will sit in a room for four straight days going over the budget. It will be intense as we go over the weak parts of the various budgets. I have never done this kind of review with people outside of the company so it will be…