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Earlier this week, my boss and I were reviewing on the status of our automation project. We were really pleased at how everybody was coming along on the report, even figuring out what to do when errors popped up. It’s such a good feeling to see it come along so well. There were just a…
I read an article late last week that brought echoes of the late nineties to mind. The article was reporting that a lot of tech companies were leaving off certain expenses on the financial statements because such expenses were deemed irrelevant to the operating results. They still report the proper financials to the SEC but they advise…
It could be just an impression I have, but sometimes when an accountant is asked to put together a plan, he will balk. Accountants are used to certainty (for the most part): set closing schedules, set GAAP rules to follow, things you should and should not do, mathematical steps to reconcile imbalances, and so on….
Huh, didn’t know that there was an economic theory that posits that under certain conditions, companies will want to increase wages for labor because such wage increase will provide benefits. Those benefits could be reduced turnover, increased productivity or whatever else. This theory certainly isn’t mentioned much, if at all. I have heard increasing engagement…
Read an article earlier in the week about an interview with a famous investment fund manager who always preached low-cost fund management and fiduciary duty to your investors. He said that financial management companies are now starting to have the philosophy of managing for your clients and not just for themselves. The article was investor this…
I’m working on a new project that entails a lot of data which unfortunately Excel does not handle well – not on top of all of the formulas I need to use to generate categories and analyses, plus the pivot tables. Eventually, I scrunched the data down to just what my boss needed but then…
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