Category: A & M San Antonio
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Friday May 7 2010 Dave Rosenberg moved from Merrill to the Canadian firm Guskin Sheff. He writes daily and is quoted in much of the financial press. Yesterday I posted a graphic of your employment prospects showing the plunge in the Dow. For those that thought I was just being sarcastic, below is an excerpt…
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Tuesday May 4 2010 From the website of the Texas Governor Cresencio Davila of San Antonio is a student at Texas A&M University at San Antonio (TAMU-SA). He is president of the TAMU-SA Student Government Association and the Delta Beta Chapter of the Delta Mu Delta Fraternity. He is a member of the TAMU-SA Chancellor’s…
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Wed April 14 I am suffering from the same allergies that have afflicted thousands of others as the oak wilt, etc settles with a fine yellow green dust over the entire city. Wheezing and sneezing through class is not a good idea, and when I could not think of the name of the person I…
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Monday April 12, 2010 I waited a few days before putting this one up but apparently the Obama administration has outlawed unpaid internships by for profit entities. It is of course, in their eyes, okay for a non profit, read government, to provide an unpaid internship. In the face of double digit unemployment in multiple…
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Thursday April 8, 2010 Bruce Howard with Herbst Fischer CPAs addressed the Ethics class Wed April 7, 2010. Bruce is head of operations and recruiting for this regional CPA firm. He presented ten ways to engage yourself with the professional community. These included building your rolodex, establishing your brand, and creating your own Board of…
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Tuesday March 23 2010 Here is a great article pointing out that companies targeting the high end, Apple, and the low end, Accer, are doing well. Those in the middle, not so well. Nokia has twenty times the market share of Apple in phones but makes the same money. Interestingly the market for luxury cars…
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Wed March 10 2010 I am pleased to announce that we have scheduled Bruce Howard of Fisher Herbst Kemble CPAs to speak during our ethics class on Wed April 7 2010 at 5:30 PM in room 204 at the St Joseph campus. Bruce is head of recruiting and operations for FHKCPAs. I first met Bruce when…
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Wed March 10 2010 From Visual Science Laboratory, March 8 2010 First up: "Live fast and die quicker." As Americans we seem to think that living brutal, jam packed 18 hour days is a smart, productive and reasonable way to live. But as my friend the cardiologist says, "The faster you live the quicker you die."…
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Tuesday March 9 2010 I encourage you to spread the word to your students about the scholarship opportunities the chapter has to offer. Here is the link below you could forward to any students who are interested. If you are a junior, senior or graduate student and planning to pursue a CPA certificate, apply now for one…
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Sunday March 7 2010 Skate where the puck is going, not where it is now. Wayne Gretsky
