See update of the article at end There seems to be a new trend with companies of all sizes, shapes, industries, and sectors. Customer Service with limited or no contact information. If you don’t use their internally generated customer service system (which limits the customer’s ability to convey the issue they are having) you can’t […]
Read More »Is it all encompassing? I have noted with increased frequency the use of these buzz words; Culture, Diversity, and Inclusion; populating both the media and individual writings found on social media. Culture, Diversity, and Inclusion appear in poll after poll, article after article. These words claim the terms as used are the reasoning behind the […]
Read More »I just had a discussion on LinkedIn where the author of the post and I disagreed. He said I was wrong because my claim as to his position were mistaken. While nothing new, this time the disagreement was over his words versus his meaning. Note: I removed his name from any post. The message He […]
Read More »I recently bought an Omoton KB395 Bluetooth keyboard. It was working like a charm, but I guess one would assume that to be the case. Pairing it to the iPad was seamless, but that seems more the norm than anything else these days (and I remember the days when it could be a nightmare). You […]
Read More »Yesteryear When I was in grade school, in the middle of the Cold War, we had air raid drills. We were taught to duck under our desks. I always thought (and I think I did back then) that it was absurd, if a bomb (and if it was an Atomic Bomb), what was my desk […]
Read More »The other day a salesperson with one of the new expense programs that come with those virtual expense cards called. These programs seem to be all the rage, as in the last two years many new and some old companies entered this marketspace. I’m being told by salespeople and after reviewing numerous websites that there […]
Read More »Mr. Pichai, It would seem my private email server has been assigned a less than stellar reputation due to my error (ok, stupidity). The domain/IP address of my server had, for a brief time, an incorrectly configured DKIM record. I send one message to a mailing list of approx. 20,000 names, once a week. About […]
Read More »The concept When I taught accounting in the late 90’s/early 2000’s at the City University of New York, I spoke about the principle of a Going Concern. The Going Concern principle was one of the seven accounting principles which define the needs and requirements of accounting. The definition was as simple as it was crucial; […]
Read More »Dateline: June 2015 In June of 2015 I wrote a blog titled “Dun & Bradstreet – Would you trust their data? In that article I discussed all the erroneous information D&B had about me and my associations with different companies. Dateline: April 2022 On April 12th, 2022, I did another search on Corporationwiki. Interesting, how […]
Read More »Budget vs Forecast – there’s a difference…. Most people use these terms interchangeably, however, there is a subtle difference. Every business should, each year prior to the start of the new fiscal year, create a budget. Once approved, this budget is set in stone. It doesn’t change, and is not updated, it is what it […]
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