Archive for July, 2012
Tuesday, July 24th, 2012
This post becomes popular right around CFA exam results day. I did not enjoy writing the CFA exam, I enjoyed my MBA program less. Some people just refuse to believe I’m telling the truth. Here is photographic proof, or at least I hope it is, that I passed the exam: At first I wasn’t even [...]
Posted in CFA, Depression, Excel, MBA, Sauder |
and Tagged: 2012, anxiety attacks, cue cards, exam results, Level 1, practice problems, study materials |
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Monday, July 23rd, 2012
After my recent post about some of the spreadsheets I’ve given away online, I got asked if I ever made a general new business planning Excel spreadsheet. I said “not exactly” and gave some excuses why ultimately you need to build a custom spreadsheet as every business is just a little bit different and has [...]
Posted in Excel, Venture Capital |
and Tagged: balance sheet, break even, cash flow, costs, debt servicing, Entrepreneur, equity, financing, net income, new business, revenue, sales, spreadsheet, startup |
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Thursday, July 19th, 2012
I’ve made my share of Excel spreadsheets, I spent a lot of time mastering MS Excel after I completed my MBA. I ended up giving away a number of spreadsheets on this blog. Spreadsheets that are still being used, downloaded, and probably claimed by someone else as their work/intellectual property. These spreadsheets are provided as [...]
Posted in CFA, Excel, Self Marketing, Venture Capital |
and Tagged: CFA Level 1, company valuation, intellectual property, solver, spreadsheet, unemployment, VBA |
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Wednesday, July 11th, 2012
I just finished watching the documentary “Hitler’s Children” on the Knowledge Network. It isn’t a great film, but it did get me thinking. Adolf Hitler of course had no children, but other members of the inner circle had children and now grand children. A Jewish filmmaker interviewed several of them and asked them about how [...]
Posted in Cinema, Genealogy, Search Engines |
and Tagged: concentration camp, documentary, Eichmann, Frank, Göring, Goering, Höss, Himmler, Hitler, Hoess, Nazi regime, reputation, responsibility |
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