If you are the one who reads this blog regularly then you know that I pride myself in performing exhaustive research (meaning I look up a topic on the internet until I get tired of doing so) on the subjects that… Read More ›
Accounting
Rats! Or How Not to Feel Doomed About Your Job
Do you feel overwhelmed at work? Do you feel like telling the corporate world to go reconcile itself? Do you feel like every time you are about to achieve a goal the Lucy-like corporation pulls the football away at the … Read More ›
Great Moments in Accounting History: The Accounting Code
As I was browsing through the shelves of the local bookstore the other day I found myself staring in silent awe as I looked at the cover of a book entitled, “The Secret History of the World”. Words can’t describe… Read More ›
Great Moments in Accounting History: The Cubicle Strikes Back
I’ve spent most of my accounting career debiting and crediting in one cubicle or another (and, consequently, coming to identify with Dilbert and the guys from “Office Space” more and more) having never giving a second thought to how cubicles… Read More ›
Great Moments in Accounting History: My Name is Luca
It would be a major accounting faux pas if I were to neglect writing about the “Father of Accounting”, the “Sultan of Cash Flow Statements”, the “Gangster of Love” in my series of Great Moments in Accounting History posts. I,… Read More ›
Great Moments in Accounting History: Rise of the Bean Counter
In honor of all of the accountants who have sacrificed their (social) lives in the name of satisfying our country’s income tax laws, I will be presenting, over the next few days, several key moments in accounting history. For this, the inaugural… Read More ›
Dressing For (Tax) Success
With April 15th fast approaching I felt that it was my duty as an accountant to let all of you know that I don’t do taxes (except my own – and even then not very well). There is a reason… Read More ›