This site under reconstruction.
As I mentioned on Sunday, I’ve started a new project where I’ll help with the installation of new software. I won’t be installing the software, but I will be assisting with the migration efforts to make sure we get all the data in and set up the system properly. Over the next three months we will be…
(I know the picture is not a good picture but squint your eyes and pretend it’s him.) An article last week in Business Insider provided some quotes from Jamie Dimon’s letter to shareholders which basically told whining executives to deal with uncertainty. It was interesting to read about a financial executive saying business is always and…
This post is going to be short today; this week exploded into being extremely busy with quite a few folks contacting me to do some stuff. Now I’m very tired but wanted to get this post in. Twice this week, I had some conversations with two different folks who complained about how some people don’t…
In the effort to expand my horizon beyond finance and accounting and to learn how others think and analyze, I’ve started reading a book about web analytics: Avinash Kaushik’s Web Analytics 2.0. His name and this book keep coming up as THE source on web analytics so I decided to try reading it. It is dense, meaning…
Today we live in a world where managers and shareholders expect you to meet the forecast within 5% or you may suffer the consequences. However, a forecast is just that: a forecast, not a perfect prediction or even close to perfect prediction. If somebody consistently meets their forecast quarter after quarter, year after year, then…
There has been a spate of articles depicting bad images of financial professionals. To keep this post short, I will just talk about one, which I read a couple weeks ago. The link to the article I’m referencing is: http://www.thestreet.com/story/12522280/1/5-reasons-executives-arent-good-people.html The article is titled “5 Reasons Executives Aren’t Good People”, written on 3/12/2014 by Jason Notte in The…
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