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Friday October 17 2014 An alert accounting student sends this article about jobs and pay. NOtice that a accounting first appears mid pack salary wise. But it continues to appear all the way to the top, the 99th percentile rank. So what is the difference? The top two ranks have obtained accounting certifications which put…
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Monday Oct 13 2014 The IMF suggests that easy money Central Bank policies led to the last crisis and here we are again. Consider this quote. What we see is extraordinary risk-taking in the financial markets while in the real economy risk-taking has taken a holiday,” said Claudio Borio, a senior economist at the Bank…
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Monday Sept 29 2014 The Paper Chase is a movie about first year Harvard law students enduring th relentless socratic method of Professor Kingsfield the expert in contract law. When we were showing movies on Sat night this was my selection. John Houseman portrayed Kingsfield and won a Best Supporting Oscar though he ws really…
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Wed Sept 24, 2014 Hi, Campus Reps and Accounting Faculty, Thanks for getting the word out at your campus and in your accounting classes regarding the San Antonio CPA Society’s Fall Accounting Careers Workshop this coming Friday, September 26, from 5:30-8 p.m. So far, 97 students have committed to attending, which is great. …
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Tuesday Sept 23 2014 Some of the WSJ articles will come up but others will not unless you subscribe. Here is an excellent article on How We Should Be Teaching Math. the author is an engineering teacher. She observes that concerptual understanding, watching the prof work a problem, only gets you so far. As I say…
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Monday Sept 22 2014 An alert TAMUSA student notified me of the Certified Sales Tax designation. I was not familiar with this one and no doubt we need to start a new list. But again this just shows how much is out there, and what a large field of endeavor accounting has become. Is anyone interested…
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Tuesday August 26, 2014 This Columbia Harvard Professor says avoid the Ivy League. HIs criticism focuses on the diffidulty of getting in to those schools. My take is that the Ivy League is really not so much a group of schools but a fraternity. Get in, you are pretty much guaranteed to graduate. And you…
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Monday August 18, 2014 The applicatino fee for the CIA designation has been waived until August 31, 2014. In addition the IIA CIA learning System is offered at a 10% discount. Many students mistakenly believe they should nto be taking the exam as they do not have the expereince. This is the opposite of what…
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Friday July 18, 2014 This is a looking ahead article for college students, it is all about whether you are on track to achieve your career goals.
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Thursday June 5 2014 Creating an ethical culture begins with the message sent from the top of the organization. Read here how a culture of cover up developed at the VA. If you know anyone using the VA you are aware of their complaints. How did the top brass miss all those complaints? While they…
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