Virtual Reality went virtually nowhere at first.  No one could figure out what to do with it.  Well, now we are at VR 2.0 and there are several ideas. Read about it in this Business Week Article. It explains how VR is reducing development costs and finding new outlets in gaming and sports technology.  I…

Here is an excerpt from a recent post by one of you. ____is the most uneducated, unprepared, and idiotic man to ever take the postion as _______. He needs to do what is right for the american people, not the american elite. This country was founded by the people and for the people…not for your…

Okay so I write a lot about cars.  Did you know the new marketing VP for Jag North America is named Marti?  Check out this gal’s comments who has just moved from Volvo to Jag, her complaint, when she goes for an errand in her Jag, she has to dress for the occasion, seems everyone…

I have received a substantial quantity of review books for he Certified Internal Auditor and Certified Managerial Accounting Exams. This material is from the Gleim organization, I am not compensated in any way by them.  I used Gleim when I took the CPA exam in 1975. In my opinion they are still the best and…

In a story that is getting more notice, the CEO of Starbucks in a memo, observes that Starbucks is losing its focus, or perhaps, soul.  In this Forbes posting, a consultant discusses the importance of what a being about your brand. I see a current ad asks whether you want a car, or a Porsche? …

I have visited with cpa firms that tell me they have adopted the ‘paperless office’ concept.  Well apparently everyone has not.  Do you know about the GLB? That would be the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Financial Modernization Act of 1999. It relates to accounting banking and securities information. Or what about the HIPAA? It of course controls PHI! …

Environmental whackos, er environmentalists, would have us believe that the Prius is the end all in auto conservation.  Not so fast, when one considers the total environmental cost of building a Prius versus  a Hummer, guess which one wins? This is an example of the total real cost of doing something, once again, managerial accouting…

Peter Singer has an interesting article at this link about ethics.  You will be presenting your movie reviews about ethical themes in the next few weeks.  Singer is an Australian that wrote the piece for Britanica that I Used in my ethics class and now is at Princeton.  He notes that the taking of life…

Please read How Long Can the Us Count on Foreign Funding?  You may recall the famous quote from Bill Clinton.  After then Speaker of the House Foley explained how the economy really works to him  Bill exclaimed ‘You mean my programs depend on a bunch of ()_(_+&*&* bond traders@!"  Well Bill as a matter of…

Steve Forbes is right on in this column.  HE correctly identifies the culprit not as interest rates but the declining dollar as the source of inflation in oil and metals prices.  But the problem is not at the FED. This will not be solved by raising or lowering interest rates, though I suspect eventually higher…