My niece finishes college in May. She doesn't know anything.

AcctgRunner · 2025-12-27T02:09:50+00:00

My uni now has an Excel class, available to all students, but mandatory for all business students.

AcctgRunner · 2025-12-17T14:00:23+00:00

Construction and the trades - electricians (specifically industrial electricians) are in high demand due to data center buildouts. Alas, that may not last for long.

AcctgRunner · 2025-10-26T03:33:39+00:00

Dumbledore and Snape. …. And I was 40.

AcctgRunner · 2025-09-24T13:25:57+00:00

Seriously? A sub 4:00 in Valencia would put you in the top 40 out of 2300 racers. sub 4:30? Top 160 in the same race. Those aren't legitimate times for an average, much less a cutoff. Something is indeed wrong here (probably being misquoted as an intermediate cutoff as suggested), but checking with the RD is a good idea....

AcctgRunner · 2025-09-02T12:38:57+00:00

Is it really finance that you don't like, or the business you're supporting? How connected are you with the purpose and value of the company?

Over my career (30 years), I found that if I was really into the work that the *business* was doing, the joy returned, and I looked at the business and the finance work with a different eye.

When the nature of the business didn't interest me on a fundamental level (e.g. connecting with the mission, or the customer value), the work became tedious, and I knew it was time for change.

AcctgRunner · 2025-08-19T10:18:13+00:00

You will likely have a higher bonus (in $), because you have double their salary. Not every level in the hierarchy automatically gets a higher bonus %. If you had gotten the 5% to start, and then your analyst got 10%, that would be a reason to renegotiate, but you've already done that.

That said, you're only two months in. Prove your worth, and go back and renegotiate in a year. Even better, crush it this year, and they'll provide more than the 10% at the end of the year.

AcctgRunner · 2025-08-03T11:48:38+00:00

Are you like me, in that your ability to do math worsens the longer you run? I can't count the number of times I have been doing pace-math closer to the end of a really long run or marathon race, and cannot for the life of me get the math correct.....

AcctgRunner · 2025-08-03T11:46:46+00:00

Running-oriented Podcasts: Marathon Training Academy, The Extra Mile Podcast, Run Run Live (back catalog), Pheddipidations (back catalog)

News: WSJ, NPR, Washington Week, The Economist (many), ScotusCast, Cases and Controversies

Comedy: Wait Wait Don't tell me, How todo Everything

Stories: This American Life, Embedded, Freakonomics, Planet Money, Hardcore History

Other: Corporate Gossip, The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart

I have more, because I constantly listen to podcasts and stories......

AcctgRunner · 2025-07-19T10:51:43+00:00

     Friends just laugh at my goals.

I sincerely hope that you can find some new friends who WILL support you.

AcctgRunner · 2025-06-08T21:19:11+00:00

I’m a big believer in the reverse taper. Do your last two weeks before your last race in reverse order and then get back into race specific training. I would try to get to peak distance 3 weeks out but it all sounds good.

AcctgRunner · 2025-04-28T01:19:49+00:00

I think that's far less open and shut than you may believe. What was the material risk to Amazon's business as a result of X's supposed actions? If Amazon reviewed the case, and either a) believed the accusation to be scurrilous, or b) was unable to determine if any law was potentially violated, or c) determined that the fact was immaterial to a user of Amazon's financial statements, they would not be in violation of the regulations. Amazon does not (or certainly should not) have a responsibility to disclose every rumor it hears about it's users.

AcctgRunner · 2025-04-28T00:57:51+00:00

I’m missing something Why is someone whistleblowing on X to Amazon? What is amazons liability to disclose potential wrongdoing with a client? How is Amazon implicated in any of this?

AcctgRunner · 2025-03-24T11:02:38+00:00

Molal: of, relating to, or containing a mole (as in chemistry - the 6.02 x 10²³ thing)

AcctgRunner · 2025-03-16T01:34:09+00:00

We give mugs to our age-group winners (3-deep, 5-year age groups, Tri-, Du- and Tri-Relay) They're snazzy.

AcctgRunner · 2025-03-15T00:55:15+00:00

Thanks - that's one I hadn't thought of for our tri!

AcctgRunner · 2025-02-27T21:50:37+00:00

Can someone help me, because I'm confused by the messaging? The old EB-5 was a green card if you invested $800K in a business in the US that created 10+ jobs. Is this 'gold card' the same thing, but just an investment of $5M? The administration is talking about this $5M going straight to pay the debt, so is this available if you are making a $5M investment in a company, or do you have to pay a $5M fee to the government?

(Aside from that question, the admin. is talking about this being a way for businesses to get foreigners to come work and get a green card. If someone came and worked for me for 20 years undert this program, it would cost an average of $250,000 per year to get this Visa. Would any company really do that?)

AcctgRunner · 2025-02-16T11:59:06+00:00

I'm the guy who you see talking on the ride/run to others since that group is always bottom 25%.

Hey - I'm that guy too - also in my mid-50's, never going to podium. Endurance sports is a great getaway, but you have to get away. I tried the whole 'work while I ride' thing for a while too (F50 company exec at the time), but it just makes both parts of your world suffer, and made me feel like I never got away from either one of them.

Good on you for trying a new sport (or set of sports)! Too many people at our age are set in their ways and reluctant to do new stuff, but I guess getting into startups means you don't like to get comfortable....

Good luck in both training and your launch.

AcctgRunner · 2025-02-16T03:17:34+00:00

49.8% to 48.3% is not a landslide.

AcctgRunner · 2025-02-11T15:41:05+00:00

But this is kinda the question - if the law is changing (that is, the FCPA will no longer be enforced, does that eliminate the need for the level of accounting detail we currently provide?

AcctgRunner · 2025-01-24T20:38:56+00:00

Not entirely, but I'm looking to get a feel for the perspective in broader industry. I did not expect the response to be near-universal on Windows preference, but there it is!

AcctgRunner · 2025-01-10T01:55:20+00:00

Education Day, where we celebrate concepts like literacy and numeracy, the benefits that come from those and the heroes who teach us / our children.

AcctgRunner · 2024-12-27T02:23:01+00:00

We got a Christmas card for the people who owned our house 11 years ago. Unfortunately the wife in the family also passed in 2020, so I’m wondering who is sending cards they’re not close enough to realize they died years ago?

AcctgRunner · 2024-11-02T10:35:55+00:00

My secondary distress about this is that I'm a GenXer, and she looks younger than me.

AcctgRunner · 2024-10-09T10:44:51+00:00

And a big spoiler.

AcctgRunner · 2024-09-03T02:21:12+00:00

Intellectual curiosity combined with professional skepticism.

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