Financial Goals for 2008: Reviewing Our Progress
A year ago I wrote up a list of financial goals for 2008. Today, I thought I’d take a look back at them and see how we did ... describing the changes that we made: Reconsidering Our Asset Allocation How to Manage Your Asset Allocation With Multiple Accounts Our Investment Portfolio: Asset Allocation and Location Market Turmoil [more...]
Date: 2009-01-02 22:28:10
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SAP ABAP Jobs - Preparing For Your Interview
By William Cook Say you are waiting out for a SAP business, ... , accounts receivable, special ledgers, book close, and accounts payable. AM Asset Management ... on sales and purchase also. CO Controlling: It is applied for accounting of internal cost/management [more...]
Date: 2008-12-28 09:16:30
SAP Job Hunting - Knowing The Interview Questions For Preparation
Say you are waiting out for a SAP business, it is fundamental that you recognise certain essential matters on it before yougo for the interview ... , special ledgers, book close, and accounts payable. AM Asset Management: It is practiced in subjects related to tracking, evaluating, and depreciating ones assets, which takes on sales and purchase also [more...]
Date: 2009-01-03 21:52:02
Nice Work If You Can Get It: Estranged Wife Says She Needs $53,000 A Week To Survive
Let’s get this out of the way right off. Yeah, I’m jealous. I want $53,000 a week, too. There. Now, moving right along.... Holy matrimony, Batman! ... does Douglas-David, a former investment banker for Lazard Asset Management, manage to spend $53,000 ... and properties in Sweden account for $27,300 a week, according to a financial affidavit she filed [more...]
Date: 2008-12-19 21:25:18
Landing Your SAP ABAP Jobs With SAP Course
by Richard Torres 1 of the strongest software in the IT market is SAP. What is SAP and why is it so fashionable. Lets take a look ... . These are Investment Management (IM)), Asset Accounting ... architecture. Organizations using it , can work on it to create any software to meet their business [more...]
Date: 2009-01-04 10:42:27
How To Land The Perfect SAP Job - Preparing For The Interview
by William Cook Say you are waiting out for a SAP business, ... , special ledgers, book close, and accounts payable. AM Asset Management: It is practiced in subjects related to tracking, evaluating, and depreciating ones assets, which takes on sales and purchase also [more...]
Date: 2008-12-26 10:05:18
How To Land The Perfect SAP Job - Preparing For The Interview
by William Cook Say you are waiting out for a SAP business, ... , special ledgers, book close, and accounts payable. AM Asset Management: It is practiced in subjects related to tracking, evaluating, and depreciating ones assets, which takes on sales and purchase [more...]
Date: 2008-12-27 17:34:07
How To Land The Perfect SAP Job - Preparing For The Interview
by William Cook Say you are waiting out for a SAP business, ... , special ledgers, book close, and accounts payable. AM Asset Management: It is applied in subjects related to tracking, evaluating, and depreciating ones assets, which takes on sales and purchase too [more...]
Date: 2009-01-02 14:59:01
Revisiting regional banks
As you know from reading my blog, I am expecting a lot of writedowns from regional banks as real estate loans sour ... from: NewsInc Living with SFAS 121: how to avoid (or record) an asset writedown. (Statement of Financial ... Accountant Commercial Property Insurance and Risk Management Managing and Leasing Commercial Properties [more...]
Date: 2009-01-14 20:33:32
SAP ABAP Jobs - Preparing For Your Interview
By William CookSay you are waiting out for a SAP business, ... ledgers, book close, and accounts payable. AM Asset Management: It is used in affairs related to tracking, evaluating, and depreciating ones assets, which includes sales and purchase too. CO [more...]
Date: 2008-12-30 14:14:00
Conflicting Housing Market Data?
Real Estate markets are inefficient and involve non-homogenous assets being negotiated and purchased by private parties ... and insight on your local market. Integrated Asset Services provides full service asset management ... the National Association of Realtors’ Housing Affordability Index. They take into account access [more...]
Date: 2008-11-13 16:24:41
Big Bath Accounting Fraud
One of the hardest accounting frauds to spot is big bath accounting ... , unscrupulous management would begin writing-off every expense and asset they could imagine. As a result, future ... of inventory, plant and equipment, write-off of an investment gone south and restructuring charges [more...]
Date: 2008-12-12 04:42:00
yacht trader
Salvagers recover yacht Goldcrest from Derwentwater - News and Star THE wreck of a yacht missing on Derwentwater since the storms of January ... - Wall Street Journal Please register to gain free access to WSJ tools. An account already exists for the email address entered. William Hutchings, asset management editor for Financial News [more...]
Date: 2009-01-14 09:16:17
Compute Your Net Worth Once a Year
The following is a guest post from Marotta Asset Management ... . Compute your net worth by creating four lists. Liquid assets: An asset is something you own that has significant value. A liquid asset can be sold in a matter of days. Include personal bank accounts [more...]
Date: 2009-01-13 17:34:21
This is not an Accounting Blog, but…
I have argued before that the flawed accounting standards of the FASB are superior to those of the IASB ... don’t ignore the accounting, and assume that asset cash flows are inadequate to pay for liabilities ... is what I wrote: Sirs, Accounting is properly done using discounted cash flows, rather than management [more...]
Date: 2008-12-30 06:09:01
FT 4th January 2009 -Building wealth with tens of thousands of small accounts
The article below provides another practical example of microfinance, ending with the following paragraph: ... was as a gofer at Raffeisen Capital Management in Vienna. Although he was not a trainee portfolio manager, he asked the right questions. Twenty-three years later Seiler Asset Management looks after [more...]
Date: 2009-01-05 03:53:40
The mob is my broker: Cake launching crowdsourced stock fund
The stock tracking and community site Cake Financial is getting some interesting new features, including its first branded financial instrument, ... management services, "a lot is wasted." He's built a service that identifies the stock picks ... stocks that are performing better than yours, in users' accounts with similar asset allocation [more...]
Date: 2008-08-28 22:19:00
SEC's Report On Mark-To-Market Under EESA Says FAS 157 Not A Major Factor In Financial Crisis Or Bank Failures
Section 133 of the EESA required the SEC to study mark-to-market accounting under FAS 157, and, in particular, ... financial institutions, including specifically Bear Stearns, Lehman and AIG. The Staff concluded that liquidity pressures brought on by poor risk management and "concerns about asset quality" were [more...]
Date: 2009-01-13 05:54:01
Gold pays no interest, and soon the pound won’t either
Savers Facing Accounts with No InterestBy Edmund Conway and Myra ButterworthThe Telegraph, LondonFriday, January 2, ... from their savings and investments to help them during the recession.Mark Dampier, of asset managers [more...]
Date: 2009-01-03 11:24:48
Straight-talk on FAS 157: Blackstone and their Banker Buddies Have it Wrong
There have been some rumblings over the past several months about accounting rules being a key contributor to the banking sector meltdown, ... to the concept of gap management (the difference between the duration of assets and liabilities [more...]
Date: 2008-07-03 01:39:29
Restaurant Management Solutions
Running a business can be tough! The time and effort it takes to get it off the ground and then keep it maintained is difficult to say the least ... take up a lot of your attention is the store help! Taking care of your number one asset ... is made. You no longer need to worry my friend, some of the best restaurant accounting software [more...]
Date: 2008-11-22 04:44:15
CoTweet and Emotional Marketing
Thanks NExt GReat Thing for yet another twitter innovation Every day, more platforms are developed to connect brands and customers via the Web ... tracks exchanges through a case management tool and allows updates to be easily be scheduled. Labor ... , and these people are their most valuable asset. Too often, though, they tend to act as single-faceted [more...]
Date: 2009-01-13 22:51:00
SAP Modules & Solutions - SAP Implementation
by James Cox An ERP system is a real-time business support system that caters to the data needs of the whole corporation using a sole repository of information (a database) and a really sophisticated set of highly-customizable software modules ... regions of any corporation’s processes. Fixed on top of these already-integrated personalized modules [more...]
Date: 2009-01-07 08:36:42
Today is tomorrow’s memory: A look to the future
If you look at the byline, you’ll see that I finally got around to creating an actual author account for Kevin — continuing to call his contributions ... the Piston franchise. If there is one hallmark of Dumars’ management genius, it is his aversion to bad ... to accomplish this, Dumars has employed what I would call the management style of a patient [more...]
Date: 2009-01-07 06:26:03
The Different SAP Modules & Solutions For Your Business
by James Cox An ERP system is a real-time business support system that caters to the data needs of the whole corporation using a sole repository of information (a database) and a really sophisticated set of highly-customizable software modules ... regions of any corporation’s processes. Fixed on top of these already-integrated personalized modules [more...]
Date: 2009-01-14 08:30:06
Put the (Nuclear) Winter Coat Away
The first day back into my office brought that always cheerful Venturewire update right into ye ol Inbox. Doom. Gloom. Death. Destruction. Vermin ... water produced gets lost on the way to the tap. A December 2007 Sustainable Asset Management study ... companies. Kneebone (Toronto) – Kneebone Inc. offers proprietary software and related services [more...]
Date: 2009-01-06 21:38:31
Testing Keynes to Destruction (Again!)
This afternoon, all the journalists have been primed to say, the British Government will cut taxes and increase spending. The alleged purpose of this is to prevent a deep recession. The real purpose, there can be no doubt, is to win the next general election for Labour – and, since the Conservatives remain as useless as ever, it may well work [more...]
Date: 2008-11-24 07:05:08
The Pyramid Principle: Venture Investment in a Capital-Efficient World
Large venture firms are in trouble. The combination of too many dollars to deploy coupled with the rapidly declining costs of starting companies has largely rendered their models obsolete. While there are exceptions, e.g., Cleantech, most venture-stage companies require very little money to prove their viability, often less than $2 million ( [more...]
Date: 2008-11-12 19:47:12
Make your MF portfolio a long term plan
Over the last few days, there has been a growing consensus on the fact that asset classes are set for a free fall ... at a combination of products to minimise risk. While the percentage of allocation for each scheme ... can be considered by a larger segment as portfolio components.Here are some of those options: Debt allocation [more...]
Date: 2009-01-11 15:51:00
Bulging Side Pockets: Turning Hedge Funds into Private Equity Funds?
Many hedge funds are in trouble. Whether due to bad security selection, issues that were once considered liquid that now "trade by appointment" ... . This has placed tremendous pressure on managers who are not only depressed to see management fees drop ... . These assets generally attract management fees but not performance fees until sold. The more assets [more...]
Date: 2008-11-22 20:26:12
Bailout Politics: Is the Constitution Now Null and Void?
Article I, Section 9, Clause 7, U.S. ConstitutionNo money shall be drawn from the treasury, but in consequence of appropriations made by law; and a regular statement and account of receipts and expenditures of all public money shall ... of billions of dollars allocated to the Troubled Asset Relief Program, or TARP, reports that it can't [more...]
Date: 2009-01-10 06:02:00
Reader Mailbag #40
Each Monday, The Simple Dollar opens up the reader mailbags and answers ten to twenty simple questions offered up by the readers on personal finance ... for books on time management. Here are links to my reviews of the four best ones I’ve read to date ... d just make the minimum payment and instead apply all of that extra to a savings account. That accoun [more...]
Date: 2008-12-08 14:00:55
Bailout Arbitrage in PNC?s Takeover of National City
Potential acquirers expect targets to shop for a better offer. But lately, some potential acquirers found themselves competing against the U.S ... to the government through the Troubled Asset Relief Program, or, as PNC phrased it in an SEC filing ... that management should pursue both the TARP alternative and, in light of the uncertainty of the TARP [more...]
Date: 2008-11-20 12:58:00
Alleged Mega-Ponzi Scheme Operator Big Dem Donor
MAD ABOUT DEMSDisgraced Hedge Fund Cheater Big Lib Backer*** BOSTON TALKERS SUPPORT, TRASH POSSIBLE CAROLINE KENNEDY SENATE APPOINTMENT ***While Americans ponder how one well-heeled Wall Street huckster could have fooled so many for so long with the mother of all Ponzi schemes, a key detail has largely been overlooked: [more...]
Date: 2008-12-14 01:20:00
Avocent's Solutions Help Companies Save
Avocent headquarters in Huntsville, Al As budgets tighten, companies are looking for ways to do more with less ... collaboration tools. Today I would like to talk about data center management solutions, which can help ... where headcounts are shrinking at a greater rate than workloads. Avocent management team -- Ed [more...]
Date: 2009-01-08 02:53:11
CoTweet and Emotional Marketing
Every day, more platforms are developed to connect brands and customers via the Web ... . The service tracks exchanges through a case management tool and allows updates to be easily be scheduled ... , and these people are their most valuable asset. Too often, though, they tend to act as single-faceted [more...]
Date: 2009-01-12 22:22:09
Bernie Madoff’s Ethno-Nepotistic Ponzi Scheme
Most victims were Gentiles, but media is fixated on Madoff’s ethnic disloyalty to his fellow Jewsby James Murray Haaretz has run an article claiming that anti-Semites will jump on Madoff’s $56 billion fraud against Jewish investors to besmirch the good name of Jews. Some Jews have proclaimed Madoff’s fraud to be a new Kristallnacht [more...]
Date: 2009-01-13 18:07:00
Carnival of Personal Finance #179 - Smile Edition
Welcome to the 179th edition of Carnival of Personal Finance. This week, I want to remind everyone to smile because there’s never enough happiness in the world! Editor’s Choice Photo By Richard M. Reading these articles just brings a huge smile to my face! Great positive advices are what we should all be writing about! [more...]
Date: 2008-11-17 08:01:51
Why Shorting Treasury Bonds Might Just Be Too Obvious
US Treasuries are in a bubble, making them ripe for shorting. But that trade is too obvious, says Justice Litle ... management firms may be parking their dollars in short-term Treasuries as a conservative move ... for the privilege. As 2008 draws to a close, USTs are an asset class with no yield to speak of… microscopic [more...]
Date: 2008-12-23 18:49:37
As The Politicians Battle It Out Ukraine’s Economy Tunnels South In Search Of Australia
“In Ukraine, the evidence is still that policymakers do not quite understand the seriousness of the challenges they face,”. Timothy Ash, analyst at the Royal Bank of Scotland. “There is a burgeoning economic crisis in the European periphery,” Krugman said on the ABC network Dec. 14. “The money has dried up [more...]
Date: 2008-12-25 16:06:18
Lost Principles
As the economic crisis continues to unfold, recently a sense of uncertainty has begun to pervade the market ... . First, market players discovered that the longest-lasting asset bubble in recent history was made ... and failing to identify some of the riskiest asset classes. As a result, investors and all other economic [more...]
Date: 2008-11-27 15:20:54
New Year Scams 3
My Greeting To Me, I am Mr. Peter Phillip a Bank Manager here in Uk. I write you this proposal in good faith, believing that you will not betray me. I believe it is the will of God for us to meet through this means. One Mr. Pedro Brito Rodriguez a US citizen and businessman made a (Fixed deposit) [more...]
Date: 2009-01-12 08:13:15
2008: Annus Horribilis, RIP
I meant to take yet another Friday away from my writing, but as I am researching for next week’s annual prediction issue, there is so much material that begs to be covered that I thought I would put out a short letter with 3 or 4 points as a preface to my prognostications of next week [more...]
Date: 2009-01-03 12:42:15
The Great Crash, 2008
By Roger C. AltmanFrom Foreign Affairs , January/February 2009 Summary: The financial crisis has called into serious question the credibility of western governments and may precipitate an eastward shift of power. ROGER C. ALTMAN is Chair and CEO of Evercore Partners. He was U.S. Deputy Treasury Secretary in 1993-94 [more...]
Date: 2009-01-13 09:00:00
Gates of Vienna News Feed 11/18/2008
The most ominous news story tonight: “IAF is Ready for Iran’s Nuclear Sites”.A period of great peril for Israel is fast approaching. Assuming that the mullahs have a nuclear capability, the most dangerous time will likely be between the inauguration of Barack Obama — when the United States will cease to be a credible deterrent to Iran — and the [more...]
Date: 2008-11-19 04:59:00
THE FINTAG NEWSLETTER @ 12 January 2009
FINTAG COMMENT Health and Safety. Sometimes the rules have to be adhered to and if they are not, hell is paid. We got wind of a hedge fund that has to close down. It decided, against the flow of most other hedge funds, to stay open and offer monthly liquidity. It made 30%+ last year. So what happened next? [more...]
Date: 2009-01-12 07:20:52
Satyam: The End Game
Satyam's case: Now that we know Raju has defrauded the shareholders, on his own admission, it's time to face facts ... were a bank, they would call it an "asset-liability mismatch". Most likely the US government would ... ; everyone will be suspicious. With Raju behind bars soon, and no trust in the top management [more...]
Date: 2009-01-07 08:06:01
The Citi Never Sleeps - Only its Board, Risk Managers and Regulators
The Citigroup of the past decade is THE shining example of an array of costly failures: accounting policies; business strategies; management compensation schemes; risk management practices; and Government policies. And now we see that Citigroup is doing badly; more badly, in fact, than many thought likely. Rubin is out. Smith [more...]
Date: 2009-01-08 16:07:45
eStarling Impact IV Photo Frame Supports Video
eStaring is widely known for its multi-functional digital picture frame. Its previously releases are more than just simple photo frames for displaying art- piece; wireless connectivity, sending photo via email, RSS feeder and social network integration with varies image gallery sites such as PhotoBucket, [more...]
Date: 2008-12-09 18:38:39
Retail Sales Sends Markets Spiraling
Retail Sales Sends Markets Spiraling The markets were greeted today with an economic report that disappointed even negative expectations ... , this level of debt reduces the amount of flexibility consumers had for holiday shopping. Weak Asset ... as mentioned under the debt category, a lower asset value means [more...]
Date: 2009-01-14 17:15:00
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