Category: A & M San Antonio
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Tuesday Jan 25, 2011 I mentioned the origins of accounting, and mispronounced Pacioli's last name. This is an interesting history of accounting from the ever available wiki. If you read the history, it took centuries to get where we are today, it is the explosion of money and credit that finally brought accounting mainstream. The CPA…
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Monday Jan 24, 2011 Since the bail out of banks in 2008,we seem to be going the wrong way, the TBTF Too Big to Fail Banks are getting even bigger. Jesse's Cafe takes a look at how the percent of assets under the control of six major banks has soared since Glass Stegall was repealed. Do you…
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Sunday Jan 22 2011 Much is being made about on line or hybrid education. One would think this is the first away from the classroom experience that has ever occurred. This is hardly the case. The Industrial Revolution of the 1820s and 1830s brought the need for professional training into focus. As Ben Franklin had…
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Sat Jan 22 2011 Fellow Americans You will recall that I came to office as an Independent, neither Republican nor Democrat. The Republican Party imploded when it was simultaneously wanted to cut taxes to zero, spend $1 billion on defense and invade Albania and Tunisian promising to do for them what we did for Afghanistan.…
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Friday Jan 21, 2011 You have probably discovered that you cannot access Connect, the homework bulletin board with McGraw Hill. I learned this afternoon in a faculty workshop that Connect is still being added to BB so that you can access it. Last semester the students needed a log in code which raised all kinds…
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Thursday January 20, 2011 Attention Intermediate Classes I usually do not post specific messages to the classes on the blog but since this is the start of a new semester, let's do that so all can benefit. I will repeat this message on BB and remind me to discuss a common spot to post,…
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Wed January 19, 2011 Once again, CPS Energy is opening its doors to our students for a one day Job Shadowing event. Right now the tentative date is set for late February or early March. Depending on student interest, the date will be set. Please note that CPS requires 2 weeks to conduct a background…
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Monday January 17, 2011 Note to students, you must join the IMA but my sources indicate that in some areas very few students have even bother to apply for this scholarship. Dennis Elam The Institute of Management Accountants (IMA®), the world’s leading organization dedicated to supporting accountants and financial professionals in business, is accepting applications for its national scholarship…
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Wednesday Dec 22 2010 Fast Company profiles the latest thinking about Twitter. At first it seemed just a sort of self indulgent look at me and what I am doing site. But it turns out that Twitter is an instant messaging medium that provides instant feedback. Frank Lutz does this sort of instant polling with political…
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Dec 14 2010 Steven Hsu, a physics professor at the University of Oregon, blogs here http://infoproc.blogspot.com/ I think you will find his revelations about Chinese life, such as the 'ant colony' most interesting.
