This site under reconstruction.
It’s been busy the last week and a half so I haven’t done much posting. Really, haven’t done much of anything but work. We did our training for the new report file and next Monday we start our trial run. The whole month of December will be testing, debugging, getting familiar, and finalizing process. Oh,…
Earlier this past week, I was trying to write up a macro program to delete a specific picture that had been copied over from a download. With the intent of keeping the process simple for the users of this file, part of the process involved copying the entire download, including a picture of a graph. This is fine…
About two weeks ago I was working on a project where we had to analyze the budgets for 30 properties to make sure they were realistic and contained nothing unusual. This was very sudden and we had about a week to go through all of the files and make sense of the historical data as…
So blares the McKinsey article titled “Getting More Out of Offshoring the Finance Function”, dated Nov. 21, 2014. The whole tone of the article seems rather breathless. Of course, I’m biased since I have been adversely affected by this trend. The economics of it is compelling: it is hard to compete against $5/hour wage. No…
This past week I have been working on this new analytical project and I tried some new stuff. Mostly it was new programming; I’m trying to get to the point where I can just whip up a program to do what I need, but I’m not there yet. It still takes me a couple of…
It’s amazing how big companies want to use people’s work for free. Today I read an article about a science fiction writer who was asked by Warner if they could use his interview for free. (A Scathing, Brutally Honest Rant About Not Working for Free BEST OF PHOTOGRAPHY | FRI, NOV 14 http://pulse.me/s/36dx9F ) Earlier I…
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