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  • Working the Room, A Primer

    Weekend Sept 20 2014 f You  udon't like my ideas here are some others Work the Room Like You Own It 100 Tips for Working the Room Those are good lists of things to remember. I don't agree about using business cards sparingly, that is what they are for, and you never know where a…

  • Impressionist Art at the McNay

    Thursday Sept 18 2014 The McNay has an exhibt from the National Gallery of Art. It features French impressionist painting.  Lear more about the exhibit at this link. The art of any particular period tells yo a lot about the advanced or lack thereof state of any society at that point. AS you cansee impressionists were…

  • Subscribe to Tone at the Top and Smart Brief for Free!

    Thursday Sept 11 2014 I attempt to provide TAMUSA accounting students with a great number of resources. Here is another one. Smart Brief is an e mail service that will keep you current on internal audit and other accounting topics, again it is free. https://www2.smartbrief.com/signupSystem/subscribe.action?pageSequence=1&briefName=iia   The Institute of Internal Auditors publishes a bi monthly newsletter, Tone…

  • Chamber Music at the McNay

    Thursday Sept 11 2014 This coming Sunday at the McNay Camerate, San Antonio's Gramy nominated Chamber Music Ensemble will perform music from the Impressionist era. The museum has a large touring exhibit of Impressionist art at this time. This is the sort of idea I was promoting in the earlier blog post about extending our…

  • Another Great Accounting Resource

    Wed Sept 10, 2014 Here is another great resources for new developments in accounting it is a link to the Resource Global Professionals Site. http://www.rgp.com/index.php/client-services/finance-and-accounting

  • Accounting Internship at Univision

    Wednesday Sept 10 2014 As I mentioned, I have an opportunity for a paid part-time position in Finance/Accounting and wanted to see if there were any interested students. If you would please forward my information to the appropriate person at the University, I would greatly appreciated. Thank You, Sonia Trevino Univision – Finance Director (210)…

  • What’s Up at the McNay – What College Graduate Should Know

    Tuesday Sept 9, 2014 We are in the process of assembling outcomes for our various disciplines. And yes there are rubrics for management, marketing, accounting, and so on.  No doubt this will pass muster at the AACSB examination time but I think it misses the larger point of what used to be a college degree.  As…

  • Magic Camera Settings – and Accounting

    Weekend Sept 7 2014 Pro photographer Thom Hogan writes a great column on 'magic camera settings' Thom shoots with  Nikon camera. He notes at the start of vacation season he always gets requests for the settings he uses on his Nikon, people assume that if they use the same setting they will get the same result. …

  • SA CPa Student Career Night

    Thursday Sept 4 2014 TAMUSA Accounting Students   I received this announcement from SA CPA Society today. Their career night is on Friday Sept 26, see below. It is at Chapter Headquarters at 901 North Loop 410 between Broadway and Nacogdoches. Send my your name if you plan to attend. Do not treat this casually.…

  • A Successful Profile

    Thursday Sept 4 2014 Beth Hair is the successful founder of Aventine Hill Partners, see sidebar for link. Today Aventine released a bio on their newest partner for the Dallas Office. it is an interesting read on how one'climbs' the financial ladder of success. So I am posting this as a look ahead to understand…