Tuesday Jan 7 2014 The Becker folks that offer a CPA Review course also offer scholarships. Learn more at this link on how to apply.

Tuesday Jan 7 2014 Here is a list of 15 disappearing jobs. The thing that jumps out at me from a list like this is that most of these are clerk type jobs which have about a three month learning curve. My students are aare that I emphasize obtainging specific certificaitons in field. More and more this…

Monday Jan 6 2014 WSJ and Barron’s Student Offers Students may purchase WSJ and/or Barron’s subscriptions at the bookstore or online: www.wsj.com/studentoffer (The Journal 15-week offer) www.wsj.com/impress (The Journal 1 and 2-year offers) www.barrons.com/studentoffer (Barron's 15-week and 1-year offers)   Reminder: The old forms passed around in class and faxed in are no longer available.   Each subscription includes home delivery (6-days/week for WSJ and 1-day/week for Barron’s),…

New Year's Day January 1, 2014 I am revising the syllabus for ACCT 53089 Ethics for Spring 2014. Last spring I began by offering the class a choice of viewing either Casablance or On the Waterfront. Both are absolute classics and are on many Best of All Time Lists of Films. Back then the thing…

New Year's Day January 1 2014 US students now have over a trillion dollars in college debt, more than the credit card debt in the USA. At the same time MOOC classes are offered for free. Now comes Codeacademy.  Headed by a Columbia junior drop out, the firm offers free coding classes for computer programming. The…

Dec 31 2013 Legal marijuana goes on sale tomorrow in CO. In 1968 my required business communication class at UT Austin had as a topic, Will Marijuana Be Legalized Soon Enough to Consider Cultivation?  This one professor did not get his contract renewed and so felt able to shall we say stray from the topic the…

Friday Dec 27 2013 Here is yet another story of a disappointed law school grad. There is  link to his and another law school disappointed grad's blog. I also suspect part of the problem is the reluctance of grads to move, they are disappointed they did not get a dream position rather than a plain ole starting…

Monday Dec 23, 20313 Emerso nand Thoreau were transcendentalists believing there were certain truths whcih could not be proved. Here is an excerpt from Emerson's eulogy for Thoreau published in The Atlantic Monthly in 1862. We will be examining the writing of these great thinkers in Ethics Class this spring. I highlighted what I consider the…

Wed Dec 18 2013   Unlike Margaritaville, Luckenb ach is a real place, sort of. Located just est of Fredricksburg it is a destination ride for many motorcycle clubs in Central Texas. But the point of LUchenbach is to think of it as an ideal, at the end of the day it is not how…

Tuesday Dec 10, 2013