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Market pressures to bear further financial printer consolidation
When it comes to financial printers and XBRL reporting service providers, the more things stay the same, the more they do not. I had taken a break from blogging on the entire financial reporting...
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Polish LinkedIn profile before resume for best professional results
If you are given an opportunity do you take advantage of it? Are you committed to succeeding when someone stakes their reputation by giving you a chance you might not have otherwise been given? How...
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Aging ranks swell with lickers and runners
Ageing (Photo credit: pierre pouliquin) I needed to bring a treat with me outdoors tonight to get Chelsea to do her final business of the day in the backyard, before retiring for the evening. It was a...
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Bluecloud’s ‘PressTime’ takes the pain out of print management
PressTime by Bluecloud Communications, Inc.Published in accordance and with permission fromBluecloud Communications, Inc.All rights reserved. With Annual Report (10-K) season in full swing,...
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Business as usual: Insurance companies still dictate health care
Friday was a particularly frustrating day for Jim as he sought to conduct some long overdue business with the eye doctor and orthodontist. Jim has been carrying COBRA these last several months as he...
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Print Margins Ripe for Taking at RRD, Merrill
Seal of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) “The Big Three”–RR Donnelley & Sons Company (RRD), Merrill Corporation and Bowne, Inc. before them, were the...
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Cloud, Offshoring Filing Security Concerns Neutralized
Added Assets, Income/Expenses, for a Full Financial Statement (Photo credit: i am real estate photographer) With the Federal Reserve still pumping money into capital markets to the tune of $80 billion...
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SBP Easily Best, Most Powerful Product Messaging Strategy
The eight-striper wordmark of IBM, the letters “IBM” in City Medium typeface. Introduced in 1967. Trademarked by International Business Machines Corporation. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) The layoffs at...
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What Have You Done For Yourself Lately?
A stitched panorama of downtown Portland, OR at night (Photo credit: Wikipedia) As I begin the second week of my hiatus from school between semesters, I find myself wondering how it is so many people...
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I’m sick of AARP
English: Prof. Dr. Bernd Marin at the AARP/European Centre Conference “Reinventing Retirement: Reshaping Health & Financial Security for the EU 27 and Eastern Europe” in Dürnstein/Austria, 23...
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Going Places, Doing Things
Never, ever, think outside the box (Photo credit: Mrs eNil) I think deep down in all of us we long to experience new locales. If we can combine trips, even with ones lasting only parts of a day, with...
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Consider your passion or prepare for disappointment
Hope (Photo credit: true2source) Many young people who decide to not go into one of the medical professions or learn a trade have already realized they will not likely ever find a job for life where...
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Women Are Crazy, Men Are Stupid
It really still is better to look good than to feel good. Some would say that if you look good you probably feel good, too. But, what happens if you were left the choice of one or the other, which...
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Let financial reporting providers offshore at your company’s peril
English: Availability of 4 Mbps-Capable Broadband Networks in the United States by County (Photo credit: Wikipedia) No matter the industry and business you are in, outsourcing and offshoring are two...
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The Thursday brake
Phil on a Stump (Photo credit: voteprime) Time to put the skids on the busiest work day of the week and take a look at the way I see a few things… When a blogger or writer’s headline says, “Don’t click...
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You never know who you’re talking to
English: Ear. Good for listening. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Or who’s listening to what you’re saying. This is because the biggest breaks that we get in life are often by accident. Timing is...
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Time to reopen ‘dislike’ debate
Italiano: versione ombreggiata e ingrandita del simboletto “like” di FB (Photo credit: Wikipedia) The world of social media is shiny and bright where everyone’s teeth are pearly white and even their...
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Manufactured crises undermine progress, obscure poor leaders
Government Shutdown Averted, The New York Times vending machine, New York City, New York, United States of America (Photo credit: Pranav Bhatt) If government was run like a business and we owned the...
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Get paid, get yours: The greater good as afterthought
My LinkedIn network, visualized (Photo credit: For Inspiration Only) You still have a better chance of becoming rich in the United States than you do, say, in Russia. This is because, although the...
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Blow it up as you go along
Blow Hole 2 (Photo credit: Wikipedia) What happens when a person becomes set in their ways, stops trying out new things like different kinds of food to eat and expects everyone to treat them the same...
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