Adam
Down with Textbooks! What Schools, Publishers and You can do to Reduce Textbook Costs
Ah, college textbooks, the fine print on your college bill. It literally sickens me thinking about the literally thousands of dollars I’ve spent on college textbooks during my college, ahem, journey. Everywhere I’ve gone, students always complain about the high costs of textbooks and the low (if any) re-sale value. It seems colleges are listening […]
AIG and General Re Fraud
In late 2000, American International Group (AIG), one of the largest insurance companies in the world, struck an intentionally fraudulent deal with General Re Corporation, a Berkshire Hathaway company, so that AIG could add $500 million in reserves to its balance sheet for the last quarter of 2000 and first of 2001. In a plot […]
U.S. GAAP vs. International GAAP vs. Unified GAAP
For many years, the standards that dictated the accounting industry on an international setting were as diverse as the world’s population. Each country used to have their own accounting standards applicable in their country. As many corporations have become international, these individual standards caused a large amount of rework and comparison issues for accountants and […]
Prestigious Education: What is it?
An article on Boston.com, The Triumph of Victor Valley Alums: Or why you shouldn’t sweat it if you don’t get accepted to an Ivy League school, goes into a detailed discussion on why high school seniors shouldn’t worry if they didn’t get into the absolute top tier of schools. Tom Keane, tells high school seniors […]
The Social Benefits of Dynamic Pricing versus the Equity of Price Neutrality
The assignment for this essay was to give my take on dynamic pricing, which is the practice of constantly updating a price to take into account the external and internal enivornment and situation of the buyer and seller (for instance “a soda vending machine that raises the prices as the temperature goes up”), from the […]
Internet, Say Thank You to the Telegraph
So far, the only class I can say I’ve completely uploaded is the Communications class I completed at UNC-Chapel Hill during the Spring 2006 semester. The class analyzed the role technology had on improving modern communications and vice versa. The class starts by discussing the telegraph and how it kick-started the modern communications era by […]
Turbo Tax Rap
I discovered this gem while perusing facebook today: Apparently, Intuit, the makers of Turbo Tax, are hosting a contest on YouTube for the best rap video about Turbo Tax. If you think that video is as funny as I do, please go here and vote for them. I’ve looked through some of the other entries, […]
Fracking Battlestar Galactica Withdrawal!
Aaargh…I am seriously suffering from Battlestar Galactica [BSG] withdrawal. For those of you who don’t know, BSG is a show on the SciFi Channel based on a show of the same name from 1978. BSG is, in my humble opinion, the best show on TV today. The basic storyline is that humans, living on 12 […]
A Wicked Long Post about College
I have a vision and several goals in my mind for this blog, one of which is to build credibility for my current school, the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. This college is my fourth in the past five years and will hopefully be my last one for my undergraduate career. I graduated from the […]
Welcome To My Blog 2.0
Well, I’m starting this blog on an incredibly high note in my life. In just the past two weeks I’ve: Started a company with three of my really good friends. We’re having our first meeting tomorrow with all four of us at once, I’m pumped! Received an Outstanding Performance Award from State Street (check out […]