What do the FASB changes mean for your business? Industries affected: Manufacturing, Utilities, Healthcare, Financial As the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) and International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) move forward with plans to alter the way that leases are accounted for on financial statements, organizations will need to change their lease accounting processes for everything
Read More...Today, I received one of the most interesting signature blocks I have ever seen. Some people just include their name. Some include their full mailing address. Some include a witty saying that seems to capture their personality. And a few put it all together in a full social media statement. I tend to take the
Read More...Oracle’s John Webb, writing for PeopleSoft Apps Strategy: The PeopleSoft Customer Advisory Boards met last week at the Oracle Conference Center in Redwood Shores. Over 180 customer attendees representing 113 member companies participated as well as our partner sponsors for the CAB: Accenture, Grey Heller, Infosys, MIPRO and SmartERP. The CAB included three days of
Read More...Dave Smith, writing for International Business Times: By storing items randomly instead of categorically, the warehouse has a much better flow of material. Even without robots or automation, Amazon can compile a “picking list” that locates where each item needs to be taken off the shelf and scanned again before it can be shipped. The
Read More...Today I’m going to tell you about something I like – a coffee maker. I bought the Technivorm Moccamaster CD–010/S a few years ago, back in 2009. It’s a strange little device, made of a bunch of detachable plastic pieces. It has no advanced features, pales in feature/benefit comparison to other modern coffee makers, and
Read More...Today I am going to follow-up on my PeopleSoft 9.2 Guided Life Events post from a couple weeks ago. Up for discussion now: the new PeopleSoft HCM 9.2 Paycheck Modeler. Paycheck Modeler is a new self service feature in PeopleSoft HCM 9.2. Note that it is available for North American Payroll only and currently is
Read More...I know this is making the rounds, but the fact is I wish I had someone shout this at me when I was 12. Every child should watch this. More than once.
Read More...Paul Stamatiou’s Android Is Better post is generating a ton of attention (it made it to the front page of Techmeme, although it’s not there anymore), and I want to riff on it. Most readers know I am an “Apple Defender”. “Defender” is an accurate word to use because I find myself in conversations defending iOS
Read More...Mikey Campbell, AppleInsider: Rose asked the tech mogul to share his thoughts on what Apple will become without Jobs. Ellison said “we already know.” “We saw — we conducted the experiment,” Ellison explained. “I mean, it’s been done. We saw Apple with Steve Jobs. We saw Apple without Steve Jobs. We saw Apple with Steve
Read More...So there’s this app called Send Me to Heaven that’s available only Android (hmm). The idea is simple: the app tracks how high you can throw your phone. You install the app (on your android, obviously). You then throw your phone as high as you can. Go on, throw it. Catching the phone is entirely
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