Has anyone seen one of the ASUS UMPCs?  Two pounds, 500 bucks or less, a battery that lasts for 3 hours, this might work?  If you have a laptop you know that by the time you carry the power cord and converter, and yeah you had better, the whole thing is not near as portable…

Whoops the Cerebus HR Block deal is off.   Gee how the mortgage business has changed in a few months.  No way to structuer the deal to make it work, so  HRB will be taking a restructuring charge and an impairment loss.  HRB thought they could unload their mortgage business on private equity, but the…

Robert Frost became the first poet to read a poem at a Presidential Inauguration in 1961, he was 87. In managerial class today we discussed opportunity costs, sunk costs, and relevant costs.  At that point I asked how many had read ‘The Road not Take’ though I referred to it as two paths led into…

Now let me get this straight, according to Congress, it is definitely not OK for Abhu Dabi to run out ports, absolutely no way, uh uh, nosiree by golly.  But on the other hand, when those geniuses at Citicorp C manage to lose their collective shirts, it if just fine for the same folks to…

Maria Bravo got the conversation going with her review of a book about women in business.  I was amazed that no one knew Maria Bartiromo. I also noted that the Presidents of UNT and SWT as well as the recent Deans of the College of Business are female, as well as the Accounting Dept Chairs…

UNT Dallas Campus offers a great venue for meetings.  The atrium design of the building lends well to mixing and mingling. And our fine state of the art computer labs aid in hands on learning. After visiting the campus for our last Community College Accounting Teacher Forum, Wiley Rep Melanie recommended it as a site…

I was in stunned amazement to discover that not one person in ACCT 3110 knew who Maria Bartiromo is.  The irony is that one student was doing a book report by a female at CNN on how to advance the cause of women at work.  Yet no one knows who Maria Bartiromo is? I will…

We had a bit of a debate in audit class and here are some answers. The last day of class this semester, ie, classes are held is Wed. Dec. 5, 2007.  If a class meets once a week it can be held R, F, S. One cannot obtain the nubmer of hours necessary to take…

That would be the number of tax returns filed last year, a huge waste of time and money.  Dick Armey weighs in on the tax code in this article. Local and state candidates running on no tax platforms have done well.  I am still waiting for a candidate to emerge who has seized this as…

Last night I was privileged to help judge the presentations of the Dallas Campus Capstone Class.  I thought the presenters basically did a good job and it was clear a lot of work went into the presentations.  Learning to be relaxed and confident in front of a group of people only comes one way –…