New Year’s Resolutions – Quarter End Reset

I spend a lot of time in a corporate environment.  We think of the year in terms of quarters.  We just concluded Quarter 1 – that is, January, February, and March.  Quarter end is when you summarize your activities of the first quarter for financial and operational reporting.  I have a couple of memos to …

Rumors of My Death Have Been Greatly Exaggerated

We’ve all seen them.  Abandoned blogs. Surfing the internet into its farthest reaches, you run across a lot of blogs with promising starts, several interesting posts, and abrupt endings. Other blogs start vigorously and gradually weaken with increasingly long gasps between blog posts until the fade.  The interwebs are a virtual graveyard of dead blogs. …

How Not to Manage Your Credit Card

I am financial professional working in a midlevel management position in a multibillion dollar corporation. I have 2 sets of letters after my name: CPA (Certified Public Accountant) and CIA (Certified Internal Auditor). I have a lot of experience dealing with financial matters for individual clients, when I worked as a CPA in public accounting, …

No More Showers! (In the Morning…)

I hate to take a shower. Really. I procrastinate taking a shower in the morning. It’s such a hassle! I don’t want to get in the shower because getting dry afterwards is boring. You have to get completely wet and then you have to dry yourself off and then you have to dry your hair… …