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Okay, the image’s quote is taken out of context, so to put it in perspective: Paul Tudor Jones is a hedge fund guy who gave a TED talk about the need to change capitalism. I can’t seem to get the link so if you want to hear the talk (and I advise you to do…
I’m going to try something new here. A couple of weeks ago, someone was questioning my calculations of averages and it got me thinking: why use weighted average rather than average? I think most people understand the use of averages but I am not so sure they understand weighted averages. The concept of weighted average…
I’m not saying run through the red lights or book fictitious revenues – there are reasons for those kind of rules. But there are others that you can and probably NEED to break in order to attain productivity. Like, are you still manually inputting numbers into your spreadsheets? Why? Here is where you can do…
For my automation project, I think we are at the end stages where the focus will be on 1) how to reconcile imbalances and 2) sussing out any calculation errors we want to change. On the second item, this is going to be an outcome of situations that I hadn’t thought of due to being…
We seem to be progressing on the automated Monday report. We’re at the stage where folks have embedded the report as part of their Monday morning routine. Our current work has lately been focused on learning how to resolve the imbalances that come up and meeting the deadline. Once they get past the stage of…
This week there was an announcement that GE was going to go back to being an industrial company. I always knew that the company was an industrial conglomerate with sophisticated engine products, lightings and lightbulbs, medical equipments and other industrial products – too many to name. I also knew that GE had a financial component:…
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