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Tuesday July 20, 2010 William Burrus an internal auditor for a San Antonio based hospital will speak to both the Intermediate Accounting and the cost class. The San Antonio Chapter of Internal Auditors is an active professional association with monthly meetings and education curriculum. I have addressed the group on two occasions. Please click on the hyperlink…
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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…
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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…
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Thursday May 13, 2010 Seven days ago I posted the graph showing the one day 1,000 point collapse in the Dow. I called it your job prospects. My point is that attempts to 'rescue or bail out' irresponsible world debtors are all failing. Please click on the links at left, the headlines on the Ambrose…
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Wednesday May 12, 2010 Today I spoke at a Continuing Professional Education Seminar along with numerous accounting professionals from different fields. A senior internal auditor from Frost Bank spoke, in one slide she listed these certifications that one or more of their staff held. I can only conclude that if Frost Bank believes they are…
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Friday May 7 2010 Thanks to Wendi Taber, incoming President of San Antonio CPA Society for this link to the Journal of Acctcy which details the latest changes in the CPA exam.
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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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Thursday May 6 2010 Today the Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 8%, in about one hour. This time it came back, but that is exactly the sort of action that I drew on the board in Ethics class last night, a stair step down, remember? And I pointed out that the Dow lost 89%…
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Thursday May 6 2010 Deflation, a collapse in asset values continues to stalk the world. The latest victims are law school graduates. The WSJ reports that even the top law school grads are not finding jobs. Well, they are not finding the jobs they want, six figure fat cat big time downtown where will we…
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