Category: A & M San Antonio

  • Friday July 2, 2010 Virtually all incoming students will have an e book in their tuition. now how to read it?  Well one thing for sure, the prices of e book readers are tumbling. The analogy in this article of the razors and the blades is a good one. I always thought the reader would…

  • Friday July 2, 2010 Jamie Dimon sent this reading list to the interns at J P Morgan. How many have you read?

  • Thursday June 24, 2010 Here is a link to presentations on the CMA designation.  Download CMA_Presentation_current_candidates Download CMA%20External%20Presentation_1.22.10 Here is a link to an extensive salary survey among IMA members this past year. Frankly I tend to take salary surveys with a grain of salt, note most responding have 20 years in the field. Note…

  • Wednesday June 23, 2010 We are pleased to announce the formation of our first review class leading to the Certified Management Accountant Exam CMA. This is a designation of the Institute of Management Accountants.  The information on this review class is on the local San Antonio Institute of Management Accountants page.  Information about the certification…

  • Wed June 23, 2010 Here is a thoughtful article on student evaluations. By parallel there have been many stories written and movies made from them about how the military turned a rebel without a cause into a constructive goal driven individual. No movie did it better than An Officer and a Gentleman in the early…

  • Saturday June 12, 2010 Behold the Elephant    It was six men of Hindustan 
To learning much inclined, 
Who went to see the Elephant
(Though all of them were blind),
 That each by observation 
Might satisfy his mind. John Godfrey Saxe, 1816-1887   We re in a period of prolonged economic stagnation. This is the inevitable…

  • Sunday May 23 2010 Mish posted this article from Bloomberg about the difficulty of finding a job upon graduation.  Many of our students are already working and San Antonio is faring much better than the national average. Still I urge accounting students to obtain a certification now as quickly as possible, we are liable to…

  • Wednesday May 19, 2010 Acct 4312, Auditing II and ACCT 5327 Advanced Auditing will be offered in the fall same time same place Monday 7-8:20 PM as a hybrid class. They will be taught by Prof Judy Lewis.

  • Sunday May 9 2010 AS one can see there is considerable work to be done, but here are the shovels and hard hats for the ceremony.  College of Business Professors were on hand for the event.   The campus will be just east of Zarzamora and on the south side of Loop 410.  Mary Ann…