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“Here is what you should know if you want to get ahead . . . “ Did anyone ever take you aside and say those words to you? Me neither. Yet it used to happen all the time, back when …
“Here is what you should know if you want to get ahead . . . “ Did anyone ever take you aside and say those words to you? Me neither. Yet it used to happen all the time, back when …
Month end again. The normal processes kick into gear as we ensure there is a good sales cut off, the expense reports have been submitted, the banks reconciled and the overseas operations results are ready for consolidation. On the whole, …
Okay, I was not cut out to be a gardener. How do I know? I was raking last year’s leaves from the garden when I realized that this year’s crocuses had already sprouted, flowered and died. I never saw them …
Bugs are usually thought of as programming errors, but I would extend the concept to include all unexpected results, whether they are due to programming or due to the system being used for a purpose it wasn’t designed for. Here …
The spreadsheet report on my computer was refusing to balance, when the IT Manager dropped by. (I later found the problem. Someone had overridden one of the formulas with a number, so that line was not updating properly.) “You should …
In Aikido, the teacher is referred to as “Sensei” meaning literally, one who has gone before. When he was 10, my son used to be quite good at Judo. Now that he’s 15, we have been encouraging him to go …
The top 10 signs you need a new accounting system are: 10. The service technician keeps threatening to retire9. “Reconciliation” is your middle name8. You ask for “proficiency in DOS” when hiring staff7. When calling Support you hear laughter in …
OK, so you’re implementing something you’ve never done before. You have the installation instructions and user guide open on your laptop. Things aren’t making sense, so you log into the support web site and find that your question has not …
Some people just have that knack. You ask them about anything from ball tickets to hotels in New York and they have someone they can put you in touch with. Not me. I mean I just don’t have time for …
In the March 14th edition of the Toronto Globe and Mail, Wallace Immen wrote the following under the title “Gaffes: Boneheaded ways to blow a job interview”: Other interview-snuffing gaffes included: . . . An accountant who insisted she was …