Sloan Tackles Lean Accounting
30 July 2008
After spending much of the past several years deriding most business schools, I've become increasingly favorable toward MIT's Sloan school and…
Competing in the Afterlife
10 June 2008
I'm generally a free market purist, even when it comes to executive compensation. That puts me at odds with a large part of society, including so…
Falling Taxes... Except Here
27 February 2008
Over the last couple years we've occasionally chronicled how government financial policies can create flights of knowledge. Fundamentally people…
Circumventing the Credit Crunch
13 February 2008
The credit crunch is on everyone's mind these days, from individuals looking to purchase homes and cars to businesses trying to acquire new equipm…
Stagnant is Not Improving
6 October 2007
It's that magical time of the year when traditional companies begin setting product and price standards for the upcoming year. Vast amounts of ti…
Lean Accounting Summit In One Month
25 August 2007
We are now only a month away from the Lean Accounting Summit in Orlando, September 27-28. Rooms at the conference hotel, the Disney Yacht and Beach C…
Effective Squishy Metrics
4 July 2007
I'm no CFO, but I still subscribe to CFO magazine to get an ongoing flavor for what's happening in the corporate finance world. After skimmin…
Pay For Performance and Wage Inequality
29 May 2007
Pay for performance and merit pay have become popular in the manufacturing world to incentivize increased output, and if done correctly, quality and i…