Have you been surfing Helpful Websites?  That would be the list of links I posted on WEB CT for you?  Well, take a look at what the big accounting firms do, you will be surprised, there is a lot more going on than just accounting. For example, did you know the big firms are involved…

Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittensBirght copper kettles and warm woolen mittensBown paper packages tied up with stringsThese are a few of my favorite thingsFrom the Sound of Music So what are your favorite things?  They probably do not include a spreadsheet or number crunching, but they might include the way the keys feel…

Well not mine exactly but memory in general.  Many of you have never played a phonograph record, but that’s all we had for music the first 70 years of the 1900s.  Change is one thing, its first derivative, the speed of change, the rate at which change is happening, is accelerating.  Consider that by the…

Michelle responded to my comments about job mobility on 9/24/06.  We live in a very different country with a very different economy than Germany or France.  Check out the editorial, Liberal Europe on page A8 of Friday 9/30/06 WSJ. As Kaminski says, the battle is raging and the outcome is far from decided.  But France…

Highlight Friday Oct 27 on your calendars for some valuable pointers from Greta Davis and Laura Smith, I have heard these ladies present and  believe me, I pick up my pen and start taking notes, you will too, check out the attached. 10-1:30 Job search Job networks Resume writing Job interviewing-what to wear and a…

I continually emphasize how global business is becoming.  Check out this news release in the British CIMA  webiste, that’s the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants.  The bulletin is about the increase in demand for internal auditors. What is an internal auditor, hey look that up on the CNN site .  Better yet, why not bookmark…

No doubt SARBOX and the fast rate of change at GM by Jerome York have both spurred Boards to finally take action on CEOS.  For years many have been showered with bonuses even in the face of non performance.  Now Page D1 10/1/06 of the Dallas Morning News reports that ‘some 1400 will get the…

Laura Smith of the Student Development Office has crafted an excellent series of speakers for the UNT Dallas Fall Leadership Series.  You can access the line up by clicking here. The lead off speaker is Grant Teaff, Coach of twice SW Conference Champs Baylor Bears and currently Director of the American Coaches Assoc.  This is…

Despite all the predictions of a new era for the Soviet Union, it pretty much looks like the old eras, which is to say lots of violence orchestrated by brutal bosses and dictators.  Peter the Great  did not have much luck linking Russia to Europe.  Nikita K never buried us.  Gorbachev found that there is…

Obviously accounting has been in the headlines the last few years for the wrong reasons-to say that Ken Lay et al were ethically challenged is an understatement.  What amazes me is how often people lie when the truth might well serve them better, here are two cases in point. Recently the President of Radio Shack…