The Pathways Commission sponsored by the American Accounting Association
strongly proposes adding non-quantitative alternatives to doctoral programs but
I see zero evidence of any progress in that direction.
The main problem is that it's just much easier to avoid
having to collect data by beating purchased databases with econometric sticks
until something, usually an irrelevant something, falls out of the big data
piñata.
From US News
in 2014
Best Online Degree Programs (ranked) ---
http://www.usnews.com/education/online-education
Best Online Undergraduate Bachelors Degrees ---
http://www.usnews.com/education/online-education/bachelors/rankings
Central Michigan is the big winner
Best Online Graduate Business MBA Programs
---
http://www.usnews.com/education/online-education/mba/rankings
Indiana University is the big winner
Best Online Graduate Education Programs ---
http://www.usnews.com/education/online-education/education/rankings
Northern Illinois is the big winner
Best Online Graduate Engineering Programs
---
http://www.usnews.com/education/online-education/engineering/rankings
Columbia University is the big winner
Best Online Graduate Information Technology
Programs ---
http://www.usnews.com/education/online-education/computer-information-technology/rankings
The University of Southern California is the big winner
Best Online Graduate Nursing Programs ---
http://www.usnews.com/education/online-education/nursing/rankings
St. Xavier University is the big winner
US News Degree Finder ---
http://www.usnews.com/education/online-education/features/multistep-oe?s_cid=54089
This beats those self-serving for-profit university biased Degree Finders
US News has tried for years to rank for-profit universities, but they
don't seem to want to provide the data.
U.S. News College Compass Details of 1,800 Colleges and
Universities ($29.95 Annual Database Subscription Fee) ---
http://www.usnews.com/usnews/store/college_compass.htm
Just half of college alumni “strongly agree”
that their education was worth what they paid for it
"Not Worth It?" by Jake New, Inside Higher Ed, September 29, 2015
---
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2015/09/29/half-college-graduates-say-college-not-worth-cost-survey-finds?utm_source=Inside+Higher+Ed&utm_campaign=d5e1f64676-DNU20150929&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_1fcbc04421-d5e1f64676-197565045
Jensen Comment
This study concludes that alumni who had experiential opportunities such as
internships are more apt to rate their college experience higher. Fortunately
nearly all accounting programs in AACSB-accredited universities now have
internship opportunities due to the extensive participation of large CPA firms
and large companies in accounting internship programs.
Surveys like this can be highly misleading in
that there are so many things other than academics that are usually obtained in
college, especially residential colleges. For example, a student who graduated
with little respect for the faculty may have had great other experiences such as
the meeting of his or her spouse on campus.
Student opinion on academics may be fixated on a
single good or bad factor that outweighs the other combined good and bad
experiences. I once gave an F to a student who I suspect still despises me but
is now a business partner with one of my (now-retired) faculty colleagues who
gave him top grades. I wonder which of the faculty will dominate in that former
student's evaluation of his alma mater?
You Should Have Gone to Rice, Says Feds'
Post-College Salary Data ---
http://www.dallasobserver.com/news/you-should-have-gone-to-rice-says-feds-post-college-salary-data-7590111
Thank you Carl Hubbard for the heads up.
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Bob Jensen's threads on Tricks and Tools of
the Trade ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/thetools.htm
Questions
What's the costliest city in North America?
Who or what is to blame?
Answer
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-10-06/in-north-america-s-costliest-city-rich-chinese-face-backlash?cmpid=BBD100715_BIZ
National Geographic: Nobel Laureates
Who Were Not Always Noble ---
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2015/10/151005-nobel-laureates-forget-racist-sexist-science/
Jensen Comment
Nobody would dare mention those that were suspiciously affirmative action
winners, especially some of those in literature that are mostly ignored or
forgotten. The most notorious oversight is sometimes thought to be John
Steinbeck ---
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_Prize_in_Literature#Controversies_about_Nobel_Laureate_selections
There were others that were good like Al Gore
but not necessarily better than the competition such as those overlooked for the
Nobel Peace Prize ---
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_Peace_Prize
The article avoids some of the most
controversial winners such as those that were suspiciously corrupt such as
Yasser Arafat who is suspected of stealing from his own people.
"The Harvard Contest That’s Trying to Improve
Health Care Delivery," Harvard Business Review, October 2, 2015 ---
https://hbr.org/2015/10/the-harvard-contest-thats-trying-to-improve-health-care-delivery
. . .
Altogether there were 19,965 visitors to the
Challenge website who
wrote 2,671 comments and provided 478 applications.
These applications came from 29 different countries
and 43 U.S. states. Approximately 60% were from
for-profit companies, while the remaining 40% were
from not-for-profit organizations.
More than three-quarters of the applicants were
focused on provider-facing innovations, as opposed
to those that directly addressed payors or patients.
Of the provider innovations, 38% were aimed at acute
care or hospitals, 14% on self-care, 10% on
physician offices, 10% on telemedicine, 8% on home
health care, and 20% on multiple or other
settings.To narrow down the
478 applications to
18 semi-finalists, we
assembled a panel of 50 judges with wide experience
in the field. The judges evaluated the applications
based on potential impact, evidence of success, and
the strength of the dissemination plan.
Four finalists
were ultimately selected. A winner will be selected
in April 2016. (Click
here to receive updates
about this competition and the next Health
Acceleration Challenge, which will begin in the
spring.)
The
four finalists represent a mix of for-profit and
not-for-profit organizations, provider- and
patient-facing innovations, and clinical and
operational solutions. Each addresses a different
problem in the health-care-delivery value chain and
offers a unique approach that has been tested in the
marketplace.
Bloodbuy.
This Dallas-based company
offers technologies that connect hospitals and blood
centers nationwide to ensure the efficient flow
of lifesaving blood products to patients in need. By
providing on-demand access to a diversified base
of premier blood centers, Bloodbuy ensures that
hospitals avoid overpaying for blood products
or encountering supply shortages. At the same time,
Bloodbuy enables blood centers to reach and serve a
broader base of hospitals and blood centers across
the country, thereby increasing inventory turns,
eliminating waste, and accelerating growth.
Continued in article
Bob
Jensen's universal health care messaging ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Health.htm
Students Are Not Very Good at Personal Finance
and Budgeting: Their Credit Cards Can be WMDs
Back to School: Budgeting 101 ---
http://blog.aicpa.org/2015/09/back-to-school-budgeting-101.html#sthash.NX7wuVk6.EFrytz66.dpbs
College is often the first
time many people make financial decisions on their own. While these same
students spend years studying for and taking proficiency and competency
exams, many are never taught simple financial literacy skills. This leaves
even the brightest and most responsible vulnerable to overspending, money
mismanagement, and failing to develop a solid financial plan. What can be
done to encourage college students to take charge of their finances and
develop sound budget practices?
Continued in article
Jensen Comment
I will avoid the temptation of relating how for one of our sons and one of our
daughters their first terms in college became financial disasters. For one of
them debt rather than student debt continues to be a disaster long after
graduation. Let's not go into the topic of credit scores.
Bob Jensen's Personal Finance Helpers ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/bookbob1.htm#InvestmentHelpers
"Mark Zuckerberg's $100 million donation to Newark public schools failed
miserably — here's where it went wrong," by Abby Jackson, Business Insider,
September 25, 2015 ---
http://www.businessinsider.com/mark-zuckerbergs-failed-100-million-donation-to-newark-public-schools-2015-9
Medical Costs Can Add Up in Retirement
Two Big Reasons You Need Added Savings in Retirement ---
http://www.forbes.com/sites/ashleaebeling/2015/09/25/two-big-reasons-you-need-more-retirement-savings/
Think Medicare will cover
you when it comes to all your health-related expenses in retirement? Not
even close. Sure Medicare is the cornerstone of coverage, but it covers
approximately 60% of health care expenses, and it does not cover long-term
care expenses. That leaves retirees with major health care expenses
(medical, dental, vision, prescription) and possibly long-term care expenses
(home health care services or assisted living or nursing care) coming out of
their retirement nest egg.
Pre-retirees should take a
two-pronged approach to planning for these health-related expenses in
retirement and make health care part of their overall retirement plan, says
Carol Goetsch, manager of advisory client services at U.S. Bancorp
Investments in Minneapolis.
“Having a plan allows you to
determine where and how you want coverage and the role your family members
will play; not having a plan becomes reactionary and creates dysfunction in
the family.” Goestch says.
Here’s the overwhelming big
picture. A couple at age 65 can expect to spend $395,000 in medical, dental,
vision, hearing, premiums, co-pays and other out of pocket health care
expenses in retirement–according to Healthview Services 2015 Retirement
Health Care Cost Data Report. Long-term care expenses are separate, and will
cost an average of $140,000 per person, although the averages can be
misleading, meaning you might need a lot more, especially if you’re a woman.
Here are some planning tips.
Don’t count on health
care cost averages. A Midwestern couple came to Goetsch when they were
turning 60. They thought they could live off of $75,000 a year until their
Bancorp advisor helped them run a health assessment that estimated their
combined health care expenses would be $3,500 a month or $42,000 a year (one
is a diabetic and one has heart issues). On average an individual needs
$1,000 a month to cover basic medical expenses in retirement, but one
mistake people make is looking at averages instead of what their
circumstances project. “Certain impairments take more of a toll,” Goestch
says. Gender, family history, and current life expectancy should all be
taken into account. In this case, the couple decided to work a little longer
and take advantage of workplace benefits–at least until they reached 65 and
could go on Medicare. They cut back on lavish travel and supercharged
retirement–and health care–savings.
Continued in article
Four Mistakes That Could Ruin Your
Retirement ---
http://www.cnbc.com/2015/09/03/4-mistakes-that-could-ruin-your-retirement.htm
Mistake: Boosting
bond allocations at retirement
It used to be a good ideal to shift
from CREF to TIAA before retirement.
Thanks to the Fed's virtually zero
interest rate policies this may no
longer be a good idea. Times change,
however, so everything should be
reconsidered if you won't be
retiring soon.
Mistake: Counting on Medicare to
cover all health care costs
Medicare is being torn apart by
fraud and explosion of medical
costs. Drastic revisions in the
future almost certainly will entail
making middle and upper income
retirees bear much more of their
medical costs than they currently
are paying out when on Medicare.
Mistake: Moving to a state for the
low income taxes
There are usually more important
variables for choosing where to live
in retirement than state income
taxes. However, if plans include
moving to another state both income
and inheritance taxes should be
considered. We have two grown
children living in California and
Maine. Taxes were a consideration
when we chose New Hampshire with
good tax deals relative to Maine and
California, and New Hampshire is
very close to Maine.
Mistake: Not saving
enough for retirement.
This is a bigger problem since the
Fed's zero interest rate policy
destroyed most safe investment
alternatives like certificates of
deposit and low-risk bonds. Now
investments for retirement must take
on more risk like choosing all CREF
versus having some TIAA. Of course
taking on more financial risk
entails taking more chances. Dah!
Some investors take chances in real
estate, but the real estate in my
portfolio was only in the house I
lived in and the land surrounding
this house. I do not generally like
rental property because of the
headaches of being a landlord
(including owning a farm). I do not
like idle land investments because
of the annual property taxes and
insurance cash going out and no cash
coming in.
More of Bob
Jensen's personal finance helpers
---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/bookbob1.htm#InvestmentHelpers
This is the research you should do before picking a credit card ---
http://www.businessinsider.com/sc/pick-the-right-credit-card-2015-8
AICPA: Back-to-School: How to Pay for College ---
http://blog.aicpa.org/2015/08/back-to-school-how-to-pay-for-college.html#sthash.gcYpuxSm.PSkI9cqt.dpbs
The Upshot: Is It Better to Rent or Buy? (real estate calculator) ---
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/upshot/buy-rent-calculator.html
Jensen Comment
My general advice for new faculty is not to buy a home until tenure is achieved
except in hot markets where fast turnover profits are probable provided too much
is paid initially. After tenure achievement the above calculator can be helpful.
My priors were to invest as much as possible in long-term ownership of a
house and the least possible in the long-term ownership of a very reliable car.
However, be careful where you buy real estate. Up in the White Mountains I
advise mountain or lake views even though New Hampshire has a view tax.
There really aren't any gated neighborhoods up here, and nothing would be gained
by having gated neighborhoods. In San Antonio I would not put big money into a
house that's not in a gated neighborhood. Even if you're opposed philosophically
to that concept, the fact is that expensive homes do not sell very well in San
Antonio unless they are in gated neighborhoods with armed guards at the gates. I
would have had much more capital gain on my big San Antonio house if it had been
in a gated neighborhood. Sigh!
http://davegiles.blogspot.com/2015/09/try-this-problem.html
Bob Jensen's Personal Finance Helpers ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/bookbob1.htm#InvestmentHelpers
The Internet of Things ---
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_of_Things
"The
“Wild West” of Innovation is Hotter Than Ever: How to become part of the
future of the Internet of Things," by Theresa Johnston, Stanford
Graduate School of Business, September 18, 2015 ---
|
The Future of the Internet of Things
http://stanford.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=ce785d9b9016cd35fb68e83b7&id=eaa28e8c81&e=56c82883d2
While working as a general
partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Trae Vassallo became
fascinated by the marriage of everyday household objects with network
connectivity, a phenomenon known as the Internet of Things. One of the
successful ventures she funded, Dropcam, allowed people to keep tabs on
their children and pets at home through Wi-Fi video-streaming cameras.
Another new company, Nest Labs, promised to change the world through its
sensor-driven, Wi-Fi–enabled thermostats.
Today Vassallo, after
working for 12 years at Kleiner Perkins, is an independent investor, those
two startups are parts of Google, and the Internet of Things is hotter than
ever. “It is the next frontier of innovation,” says Vassallo, a former IDEO
product developer who earned her master’s degrees in business administration
and mechanical engineering from Stanford. “The Internet of Things is the
next new platform area: post the iPhone, the smartphone, and the tablet
ecosystem.”
Following a May 1 symposium
sponsored by the Center for Entrepreneurial Studies at Stanford Graduate
School of Business, Vassallo discussed how to be part of the future of the
Internet of Things.
See Text Equivalent
Illustration by Tricia
Seibold
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Reinvent Old Models
People have been trying to
connect their environments to the internet since it was created, Vassallo
says. The difference today is in the hardware. Smartphone technology is now
so cheap, and sensor technology so good, that smart devices can understand
the context in which they operate, and then take action that makes people’s
lives better. “Dropcam is a great example of this,” Vassallo says. The
device allows people to catch robberies in action, or watch from across the
country while their kids take their first steps. “It provides great new
functionality, yet it fits very easily into this old paradigm of home
security and wanting to keep an eye on things.”
Package It with the Customer
in Mind
While many network-connected
devices are tricky to install and use, these products are becoming
increasingly user-friendly. Nest thermostats, for example, were designed by
engineers who worked on the Apple iPhone. “The key is making sure that you
not only have the right technology, but you have it packaged in the right
way. It has to be easy for a customer to see the value, and then ultimately
deploy it.”
Continued in article
MIT:
MIT: Recommended from Around the Web
(Week ending October 10, 2015) ---
http://www.technologyreview.com/view/542266/recommended-from-around-the-web-week-ending-october-10-2015/?utm_campaign=newsletters&utm_source=newsletter-daily-all&utm_medium=email&utm_content=20151009
MIT: Recommended Robot and AI Reads
This Week ---
http://www.technologyreview.com/view/542186/recommended-robot-and-ai-reads-this-week/?utm_campaign=newsletters&utm_source=newsletter-daily-all&utm_medium=email&utm_content=20151007
MIT: Seven Must-Read Stories (Week
ending October 3, 2015) ---
http://www.technologyreview.com/view/541916/seven-must-read-stories-week-ending-october-3-2015/?utm_campaign=newsletters&utm_source=newsletter-daily-all&utm_medium=email&utm_content=20151005
MIT: Recommended Reads on the Mobile
Beat This Week ---
http://www.technologyreview.com/view/541956/recommended-reads-on-the-mobile-beat-this-week/?utm_campaign=newsletters&utm_source=newsletter-daily-all&utm_medium=email&utm_content=20151005
MIT: Recommended from Around the Web
(Week ending October 3, 2015) ---
http://www.technologyreview.com/view/541906/recommended-from-around-the-web-week-ending-october-3-2015/?utm_campaign=newsletters&utm_source=newsletter-daily-all&utm_medium=email&utm_content=20151002
Bob Jensen's Tidbits ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/TidbitsDirectory.htm
For
earlier editions of Fraud Updates go to
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/FraudUpdates.htm
For earlier editions of New Bookmarks go to
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/bookurl.htm
Bookmarks for the World's Library ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/bookbob2.htm
MIT's New Half-MOOC Masters Degree Models
---
by Carl Straumsheim
Inside Higher Ed, October 8, 2015
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2015/10/08/massachusetts-institute-technology-launch-half-mooc-half-person-masters-degree?utm_source=Inside+Higher+Ed&utm_campaign=8e1f4e3f30-DNU20151008&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_1fcbc04421-8e1f4e3f30-197565045
The Massachusetts Institute
of Technology will next year launch the first of what could be several
pilots to determine if pieces of what it has provided face-to-face can be
delivered through massive open online courses.
The institute on Wednesday
announced an alternative path for students to enroll in its supply chain
management program and earn a master’s of engineering in logistics degree.
Instead of students being required to move to Cambridge, Mass., for the
duration of the 10-month program, MIT will offer half of the program through
MOOCs, saving students tens of thousands of dollars in tuition.
Learners who complete the
MOOCs but can’t afford or simply aren’t interested in finishing the degree
won’t walk away empty-handed. MIT will offer those learners a new
microcredential, called a MicroMaster’s, and is working with other
organizations that offer supply chain management programs to ensure they
will accept the credential toward degree completion.
Continued in article
Bob Jensen's threads on
MOOCs, SMOCS, Future Learn, iversity, and OKI Free Learning Alternatives Around
the World
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/updateee.htm#OKI
Arizona State's Freshman Year MOOCs Open to All With Final Examinations for
Inexpensive Credits
"Arizona State and edX Will Offer an Online Freshman Year, Open to All,"
by Charles Huckabee, Chronicle of Higher Education, April 24, 2015 ---
http://chronicle.com/blogs/ticker/arizona-state-and-edx-will-offer-an-online-freshman-year-open-to-all/97685?cid=wc&utm_source=wc&utm_medium=en
Arizona State University is joining with the MOOC
provider edX in a project that it says “reimagines the freshman year” and
opens a new low-cost, low-risk path to a college degree for students
anywhere in the world.
The project, called the
Global Freshman Academy,
will offer a set of eight courses designed to fulfill
the general-education requirements of a freshman year at Arizona State at a
fraction of the cost students typically pay, and students can begin taking
courses without going through the traditional application process, the
university said in a news release on Wednesday. Because the classes are
offered as
massive open online courses, or
MOOCs, there is no limit on how many students can
enroll.
. . .
The courses to be offered through the Global
Freshman Academy are being designed and will be taught by leading scholars
at Arizona State. “These courses are developed to their rigorous standards,”
Adrian Sannier, chief academic officer for
EdPlus at ASU,
said in the release. “Course faculty are committed to ensuring their
students understand college-level material so that they can be prepared to
successfully complete college.”
Students who pass a final examination in a course
will have the option of paying a fee of no more than $200 per credit hour to
get college credit for it.
Mr. Agarwal and Mr. Crow are scheduled to formally
announce the project at a conference in Washington on Thursday.
Jensen Comments and Questions
The real test is how well these credits are accepted by other universities for
transfer credit. It probably will not be an issue for graduate school admission
since there are three more years of more traditional onsite or online credits.
But it could be a huge issue for example when a student takes the first year of
ASU MOOC credits and then tries to have these credits accepted by other
universities (such as TCU) that still resist accepting any online courses for
transfer credit.
Question
What are the main differences between MOOC online credits and traditional online
credits such as those documented at the following site?
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/CrossBorder.htm
For example, at many universities these days there are multiple sections of a
course where some sections are onsite and some are online. Often they are taught
by the same instructor. The online sections are usually as small or even smaller
than the onsite sections because online instructors often have more student
interactions such as in instant messaging not available to onsite students ---
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instant_messaging
Answer
These are the following obvious differences between MOOC online credits and
traditional online credits.
- The huge difference between the ASU MOOC year of courses and the
University of Pennsylvania Wharton School MOOC year of courses is that the
Wharton School MOOC courses are not
available for credit (and therefore are free). The ASU MOOC courses are
available for credits that will not be totally free, although they will be
available at greatly discounted prices.
- MOOC courses are open to everybody in the world and have no admission
standards.
- These are not intended to be equivalent to advanced placement (AP)
credits where students eventually fill in course requirements with
other more advanced courses. The ASU MOOC courses have no requirements to
earn substitute credits. Universities do vary with respect to substitution
requirements for AP credit, and many do not require taking added replacement
courses ---
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Placement
I suspect that at some universities the ASU MOOCs will be similar to AP
credits except that the competency-examination process is different.
- MOOC courses generally have no limits to class size.
- MOOC courses do not have prerequisites such as a MOOC calculus course or
linear algebra that has no prerequisites.
- MOOC courses are generally very large such that student interactions
online with instructors and/or other students are virtually non-existent.
- MOOC courses generally do not have graded writing assignments such as
term papers.
- MOOC courses do not have graded homework.
- MOOC courses do not have graded team projects, whereas team projects are
common in smaller traditional online courses.
- MOOC courses generally do not have class attendance requirements or
class participation requirements even though they generally do have
classes. The first MOOC course ever offered was an artificial intelligence
course at Stanford University where students enrolled in the course on
campus has the option of not attending class. Some faculty feel like some
course courses should have required course attendance and course
participation.
The bottom line is that it appears that the ASU freshman year MOOC course
credits will be little more than competency-based
credits. This will be controversial since many faculty in higher
education feel like credits in general education core courses should
entail class participation, including first-year core courses. For example, at
Trinity University there is a first-year seminar that all new students take in
very small classes that require a lot of class participation in discussions of
assigned readings and the writing of term papers. I think some sections of this
seminar don't even have examinations. I did not have examinations when I taught
a section of this seminar for two years.
In traditional large lectures courses on campus students typically are broken
out into accompanying recitation sections intended for class participation and
interactions with a recitation instructor
Bob Jensen's threads on
MOOCs, SMOCS, Future Learn, iversity, and OKI Free Learning Alternatives Around
the World
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/updateee.htm#OKI
Illustrating Spurious Regressions by David
Giles
Econometrics Beat, September 22,
2015
http://davegiles.blogspot.com/2015/10/illustrating-spurious-regressions.html
Econometrics Sample Problem
and Solution from David Giles
Econometrics Beat, September 22,
2015
http://davegiles.blogspot.com/2015/09/try-this-problem.htm
l
Try This Problem
Here's a little exercise for
you to work on:
We know from the Gauss-Markhov
Theorem that within the class of linear and unbiased estimators, the OLS
estimator is most efficient. Because it is unbiased, it therefore has the
smallest possible Mean Squared Error (MSE) within the linear and unbiased
class of estimators. However, there are many linear estimators which,
although biased, have a smaller MSE than the OLS estimator. You might then
think of asking:
“Why don’t I try and find
the linear estimator that has the smallest possible MSE?”
(a) Show that attempting to
do this yields an “estimator” that can’t actually be used in practice.
(You can do this using the
simple linear regression model without an intercept, although the result
generalizes to the usual multiple linear regression model.)
(b) Now, for the simple
regression model with no intercept,
yi = β xi + εi ; εi ~ i.i.d.
[0 , σ2] ,
find the linear estimator,
β* , that minimizes the quantity:
h[Var.(β*) / σ2] + (1 -
h)[Bias(β*)/ β]2 , for 0 < h < 1.
Is β* a legitimate
estimator, in the sense that it can actually be applied in practice?
The answer will follow
in a subsequent post.
Solution ---
http://davegiles.blogspot.com/2015/09/the-solution.html
Send letters via carrier pigeon to anywhere
in the contiguous United States from your browser ---
https://flypigeon.co/
Jensen Comment
I'm not quite sure about how authentic this service is in terms of old versus
new technology. Are you supposed to lock up the kitty and leave birdseed beside
your outdoor mailbox?
College Resources for Students with
Disabilities Guidebook ---
http://www.affordablecollegesonline.org/college-resource-center/resources-for-students-with-disabilities
Bob Jensen's threads on technology helpers
for disabled students ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/thetools.htm#Handicapped
In the USA 2014 was
the least violent year in decades following a steady decline in violent crimes
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonkblog/wp/2015/09/29/2014-was-the-least-violent-year-in-decades/
Jensen Comment
It's difficult or impossible to rank what factors caused the most decline.
Economic recovery is probably a major helper in reducing crime. Technology
certainly played a role, especially video surveillance everywhere. The
Freakonomics conclusion that increasing abortion rates among poverty women had
an eventual payoff in lowering violent crime rates. Gun enthusiasts like to
claim that pistol-packing is a preventative. Much of the violent crime is
domestic-abuse crime, and there's no explanation of why that is down other than
the impact of a better economy and reduced unemployment. Most certainly steady
improvements in DNA testing and forensic science in general contributed heavily
to the long-term decline in violent crime.
Southern Methodist
University has broken serious National Collegiate Athletic Association rules --
yet again
"The Incorrigible Institution," by Jake New, Inside Higher Ed, September
30, 2015 ---
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2015/09/30/ncaa-bans-smu-basketball-postseason-suspends-coach-9-games?utm_source=Inside+Higher+Ed&utm_campaign=702caaa7b5-DNU20150930&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_1fcbc04421-702caaa7b5-197565045
Southern Methodist University has broken serious National Collegiate Athletic Association rules -- yet again.The association on Tuesday suspended SMU’s head men's basketball coach for nine games and banned the team from postseason play after concluding that the coach ignored an instance of academic fraud in which an administrative assistant completed course work for a basketball player.
This is the third NCAA infractions case involving the coach, Larry Brown, whose programs at the University of California at Los Angeles and the University of Kansas also violated association rules, including offering improper financial aid and committing academic fraud. And it is at least the 10th major NCAA infractions case for SMU, which retains the distinction of being the last Division I institution to be given the NCAA’s “death penalty” for violations in the 1980s.
“The fact that this institution has been before the NCAA so many times was an aggravating factor,” Michael Adams, chancellor of Pepperdine University and chief hearing officer in the case, said. “On one hand the institution had made some efforts to comply, and yet at the same time a fairly large number of individuals were at least making individual decisions that were unethical.”
Those individuals include Brown and a former administrative assistant for the basketball program, as well as the former head men’s golf coach and a former compliance director -- in NCAA parlance, the chief official responsible for ensuring that the sports program follows the rule. Only Brown still remains employed by the university.
In Brown’s case, the NCAA said the head coach was unaware of any misconduct as it was occurring, but he failed to “promote an atmosphere of compliance” when he later learned of the academic fraud and chose not to inform SMU or the NCAA. He later lied to enforcement officials about what he knew, according to the NCAA’s infractions report.
Continued in article
Bob Jensen's threads on athletics scandals in
higher education ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/HIGHerEdControversies2.htm#Athletics
How to Mislead With Statistics
"The ‘Wage Gap’ Myth That Won’t Die: You have to ignore many variables
to think women are paid less than men. California is happy to try," by Sarah
Ketterer, The Wall Street Journal, September 30, 2015 ---
http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-wage-gap-myth-that-wont-die-1443654408?mod=djemMER
When it comes to
economically foolish laws, California is second to none. A good example is
the California Fair Pay Act, which Gov. Jerry Brown is expected to sign in
coming days.
This bill, which the
California senate unanimously passed in August, is a state version of the
Paycheck Fairness Act that the U.S. Congress rejected in 2014. Like its
national counterpart, it is an aggressive attempt to eradicate a wage gap
between men and women that is allegedly due to discrimination in the
workplace. But this wage gap is illusory, and the legislation will have
unintended consequences, including for women.
The Fair Pay Act will
prohibit employers from paying men and women different wages for
“substantially similar work.” At first glance, this prohibition might appear
reasonable: Government data for 2014 show that women in California earn, on
average, 84 cents for every dollar earned by men. (Nationally, women earn
about 79 cents for every dollar earned by men.)
But a closer look reveals a
different picture. The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) notes that its
analysis of wages by gender does “not control for many factors that can be
significant in explaining earnings differences.”
What factors? Start with
hours worked. Full-time employment is technically defined as more than 35
hours. This raises an obvious problem: A simple side-by-side comparison of
all men and all women includes people who work 35 hours a week, and others
who work 45. Men are significantly more likely than women to work longer
hours, according to the BLS. And if we compare only people who work 40 hours
a week, BLS data show that women then earn on average 90 cents for every
dollar earned by men.
Career choice is another
factor. Research in 2013 by Anthony Carnevale, a Georgetown University
economist, shows that women flock to college majors that lead to
lower-paying careers. Of the 10 lowest-paying majors—such as “drama and
theater arts” and “counseling psychology”—only one, “theology and religious
vocations,” is majority male.
Conversely, of the 10
highest-paying majors—including “mathematics and computer science” and
“petroleum engineering”—only one, “pharmacy sciences and administration,” is
majority female. Eight of the remaining nine are more than 70% male.
Other factors that account
for earnings differences include marriage and children, both of which cause
many women to leave the workforce for years. June O’Neill, former director
of the Congressional Budget Office, concluded in a 2005 study that “there is
no gender gap in wages among men and women with similar family roles.” Time
magazine reported in 2010 that in 98% of America’s largest 150 cities,
including my hometown of Los Angeles, single women under 30 actually earned,
on average, 8% more than their male counterparts.
Ms. O’Neill and her
husband concluded in their
2012 book, “The
Declining Importance of Race and Gender in the
Labor Market,” that once all these factors are
taken into account, very little of the pay
differential between men and women is due to
actual discrimination, which is “unlikely to
account for a differential of more than 5
percent but may not be present at all.”
What California’s Fair Pay Act will do,
however, is make the state, already notorious
for regulation and red tape, a more difficult
place to do business. Companies must now ensure
that every penny of wage differential between
the men and women they employ is attributable to
bona-fide differences in education, training,
experience, quantity or quality of work, and so
on. Referring to the countless factors at play,
Harvard economist Claudia Goldin has said “it’s not checkable.” Yet even attempting to do so will only
add to companies’ already substantial
regulatory-compliance budgets.
Some of these factors—quality of work, for
instance—are inevitably subjective, yet trial
lawyers will swoop in to turn every conceivable
pay difference into a lawsuit. Employers who
cannot “prove” objectively that one employee’s
work was better than another’s may face costly
penalties. Many will surely pay to settle these
lawsuits instead of taking them to court.
Continued in article
Jensen Comment
It will be interesting to see how this law plays out in tenure decisions at the
most prestigious universities in California. For example, my 2012/2013 version
of the Hasselback Directory shows that 27% are women in Stanford's accounting
program. The proportions appear to be no better or even worse in the other
highly prestigious accounting programs in California universities.
It will take years to track the
impact of the Fair Pay Act in California's universities, but evidence may mount
up more quickly in the outcomes of lawsuits in universities. This probably
sounds sexist, but the tenured women I've worked with as a colleague in four
universities across 40 years of my full-time faculty career tended to work as
hard or harder than the men in the classroom but not as hard at research and
publishing in accounting research journals. Of course times have changed in
recent years. and we see a rise in the proportions of women authors in our top
accounting research journals.
The tenured women in very
prestigious accounting programs tend to rival the men in research and
publication even if they are more of a minority in those prestigious programs. I
think that greater focus on teaching by tenured women comes in colleges and
universities that are not in the Top 25 universities in the the US News
rankings.
My point is that
the Fair Pay Act in California may impact how prestigious universities grant
tenure and performance pay based upon tradeoffs between research versus
teaching. In prestigious universities outstanding research performance is now
a necessary condition for tenure. Litigation following the Fair Pay Act may
make outstanding research less necessary for outstanding women teachers.
Will I be in
trouble for thinking like this? Almost certainly!
Bob Jensen's threads on the
history of women in the accounting profession are at
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/bookbob2.htm#Women
"Democratic Economists vs.
Elizabeth Warren," by James Freeman, The Wall Street Journal, October
2, 2015 ---
http://www.wsj.com/articles/democratic-economists-vs-elizabeth-warren-1443785001
. . .
At least some
Democrats are resisting Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s purge of the liberal
intelligentsia. This week Ms. Warren succeeded in forcing the resignation of
respected scholar Robert Litan from the Brookings Institution after he
revealed that a new Labor Department regulation could cost investors
billions. Now five Democratic economists have authored a letter to protest
Warren’s bullying. Robert Lawrence of Harvard’s Kennedy School and Bowman
Cutter of the Roosevelt Institute are among those writing “to express our
concern over our colleague Bob Litan’s treatment at the hands of the
Brookings Institution and Senator Elizabeth Warren.” Also signing the letter
are Everett Ehrlich, Joseph Minarik and Hal Singer.
Continued in
article
Is the European Union falling
apart?
Europe's highest court just rejected the 'safe harbor' agreement used by
American tech companies ---
http://www.businessinsider.com/european-court-of-justice-safe-harbor-ruling-2015-10
EU Strikes Back Over Snowden
Leaks, But the Elimination of the Safe Harbor Agreement Makes it Difficult for
USA Companies to Do Business in Europe ---
http://readwrite.com/2015/10/07/europe-eu-privacy-nsa-court
Jensen Comment
This is an illustration of how Snowden's good intentions paved the road to Hell.
From the Scout Report on September 25,
2015
AppsBar
---
http://www.appsbar.com/
For readers who would like
to design simple apps for their small businesses, classrooms, nonprofits, or
other groups, AppsBar can be a helpful service. Readers will want to begin
by creating a free account. From there, it can be useful to explore the
various templates and code libraries from which one may create a customized
app. Typically, it takes three to four hours for first-time users to create
an app using AppsBar. However, most users find that the second time around
takes about half as much time. While the service is a little rigid, and some
users report wanting more flexibility, for ease of use, AppsBar is hard to
beat.
Buffer: A Smarter
Way to Share on Social Media ---
https://buffer.com/
For those readers who post
consistently on various social media such as Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram,
Twitter, Pinterest, and Google+, Buffer can add some much-needed
organization. Put simply, Buffer automates the timing of social media posts
so that a user can compose a slew of updates in a short period of time, and
then add them to the Buffer queue. Forthwith, Buffer will check the overall
reposting patterns of the various social media services, and post one's
updates at what it deems to be appropriate times, thereby attempting to
increase likes, reposts, and replies. When readers are skeptical of Buffer's
suggestions, they may override and time posts themselves. For readers who
take their social media presence seriously, Buffer can expedite the process
Looking at Greece's Debt Crisis in Light of
Another Syriza Victory
Greece election: Alexis Tsipras hails 'victory of the people'
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-34307795
Greece's Debt Crisis Explained
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/business/international/greece-debt-crisis-euro.html
Alexis Tsipras
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/news/alexis-tsipras/
How Greece's prime minister rose from high school activist to high politics
http://www.businessinsider.com/profile-of-greek-prime-minister-alexis-tsipras-2015-7
Eurozone vs. EU: What's the difference?
http://money.cnn.com/video/news/economy/2015/04/23/eurozone-versus-european-union-explained.cnnmoney/
Greece's Ex-Finance Minister Tells All
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/08/03/the-greek-warrior
From the Scout Report on October 2, 2015
Markdown Tutorial
---
http://markdowntutorial.com
For those who find
HTML to be excessively verbose, brittle to construct, and difficult to read,
Markdown can provide a simpler alternative. In essence, it is a text-to-HTML
conversion tool for web content writers that is modeled on well-written
email so it is both easy to read and easy to write. Users considering a
switch to Markdown (plugins exist to use Markdown for a variety of content
management software, including Drupal and Wordpress), will find this
tutorial a great place to start. Each lesson begins by introducing a single
Markdown concept and offers a sandbox for practice. Once the concept is
mastered, users can proceed to the next (there are seven in total). For
writers concerned more with content than design and who are looking to learn
a simple formatting solution, this is a wonderful resource.
KeepVid ---
http://keepvid.com/
The premise of KeepVid could
not be simpler. Just copy and paste a link from YouTube, Vimeo, SoundCloud,
DailyMotion, and other supported sites and select Download. The program then
downloads the video or audio onto the user's computer free of charge. While
KeepVid is safe and legal, readers will want to be careful about how they
use their downloaded content. For instance, downloading the latest Taylor
Swift video to one's computer is legal. However, using that video for profit
or any public purpose is usually a violation of copywrite laws.
Nevertheless, for readers who would like to download their favorite videos
from YouTube and other sites, KeepVid is an excellent resource.
From the Scout Report on August 7, 2009
HardCopy Pro 3.0.11 ---
http://www.desksoft.com/HardCopy.htm
HardCopyPro is a screen-capture tool, but it has
some nice bells and whistles that make it worth a closer look. Visitors can
use the tabbed dialog box interface to pick images or even capture images at
set time intervals. Also, users can preset the program to capture a certain
rectangle, window, full screen, or even the window located under the mouse
cursor. This version is free for 30 days,
and it is compatible with computers running Windows 95 and newer.
Statement from the Company
HardCopy Pro is the professional, easy to use screen capture utility for
Windows. It can capture rectangular screen areas and whole windows. The
captured images can be cropped very easily and the color depth can be
changed to any desired value from monochrome to true color. Images can be
printed, saved, copied to the clipboard, emailed, edited with any image
editing program, etc. Many options allow the customization of all these
actions to individual user needs.
Jensen Comment
I downloaded this (temporarily free) program by clicking on Downloads and
then choosing HardCopy Pro. I first saved the zip file in a Temp folder and
then unzipped the file under Program Files.
The download link is at
http://www.desksoft.com/HardCopy_Download.htm
The free download version only lasts 30 days, but you
can purchase the software for $20 such that there’s no big investment here
if you like the program. After about 20 days of playing around with this I
will probably buy the software for $20. The price may be slightly higher
since 2009.
I also Camtasia Producer (
http://www.techsmith.com/ ) to capture video screens. But
Camtasia is more expensive, has no timer, and I’ve never been able to get it
to work for streaming video (YouTube) as opposed to video files such as mpg
or wmv files. I am not, however, using the latest version of Camtasia.
HardCopy Pro will not copy video screens and save them
to picture files. Nor will it capture "rolling screens" that must be
scrolled to see the full document or spreadsheet.
I also use Camtasia SnagIt (
http://www.techsmith.com/ ) for screen captures. One advantage of
SnagIt is that it will capture rolling screens such as a text document or
spreadsheet that will not all fit on one screen. But I’ve not had any
success using SnagIt to capture video of any kind. SnagIt seems to capture
the screen but will not save it as a picture file that I can edit. However,
I’m not running the latest version of SnagIt.
Bob Jensen
Commemorating 50 years of the National
Endowment for the Arts and
Humanities
Cultural Capital: 50 Years of Investment in U.S. Arts and Humanities
http://www.npr.org/2015/09/29/444527506/both-in-headlines-and-quiet-2-agencies-fuel-american-arts-for-decades
See Early National Endowment for the Humanities Grants to Marlon Brando,
Noam Chomsky, and Elie Wiesel
http://time.com/4052064/neh-grants-1965/
NEA 50th Anniversary
http://arts.gov/50th
Explore All NEH Projects
http://www.neh.gov/explore/all
Q&A with David Bromwich: 50 years of the National Endowment for the
Humanities
http://news.yale.edu/2015/09/29/qa-david-bromwich-50-years-national-endowment-humanities
The Contest for American Culture: A Leadership Case Study on the NEA and
NEH Funding Crisis
http://www.upenn.edu/pnc/ptkoch.html
Free online textbooks, cases, and tutorials in accounting, finance,
economics, and statistics ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/ElectronicLiterature.htm#Textbooks
Education Tutorials
Work in Progress (for global education): The Hewlett Foundation Blog ---
http://www.hewlett.org/blog
DevArt: Art made with code ---
https://devart.withgoogle.com/
Facing History and Ourselves: Educator Resources ---
https://www.facinghistory.org/for-educators/educator-resources
Civics Renewal Network: A Republic, If We Can Teach It ---
http://www.civicsrenewalnetwork.org
Cuban Missile Crisis: Tools for Teachers ---
http://www.cubanmissilecrisis.org
Probability Lesson Starters and Online Activities ---
http://www.transum.org/Software/SW/Starter_of_the_day/Similar.asp?ID_Topic=3
The Dana Foundation: Kids (study of the brain)
---
http://www.dana.org/kids/
0
Bob Jensen's threads on general education tutorials are at
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Bookbob2.htm#EducationResearch
Bob Jensen's bookmarks for multiple disciplines ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Bookbob2.htm
Bob Jensen's links to free courses and tutorials ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/updateee.htm#OKI
Engineering, Science, and Medicine Tutorials
NOVA: Dawn of Humanity ---
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/evolution/dawn-of-humanity.html
Understanding the Cosmos ---
http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/primarysourcesets/understanding-the-cosmos/
Astronomy Education Review ---
http://aer.aas.org/
The Astronomical Journal ---
http://iopscience.iop.org/1538-3881
8,400 Stunning High-Res Photos From the Apollo
Moon Missions Are Now Online ---
http://www.openculture.com/2015/10/8400-stunning-high-res-photos-from-the-apollo-moon-missions-are-now-online.html
National STEM Centre: Technology Resources ---
http://www.nationalstemcentre.org.uk/elibrary/technology/
All Your Supermoon Eclipse Questions Answered
---
http://time.com/4051630/supermoon-eclipse-blood-moon-lunar-questions-pictures/?xid=newsletter-brief
The Periodic Table of Elements Scaled to Show
The Elements’ Actual Abundance on Earth ---
http://www.openculture.com/2015/10/the-periodic-table-of-elements-scaled-to-show-the-elements-actual-abundance-on-earth.html
Trailblazing Physicist David Bohm and Buddhist
Monk Matthieu Ricard on How We Shape What We Call Reality ---
https://www.brainpickings.org/2015/09/22/the-quantum-and-the-lotus-riccard-david-bohm-reality/?mc_cid=128eb45d74&mc_eid=4d2bd13843
How a Virus Invades Your Body: An Eye-Popping,
Animated Look ---
http://www.openculture.com/2015/10/how-a-virus-invades-your-body-an-eye-popping-animated-look.html
Microbe World: Podcasts and Videos ---
http://www.microbeworld.org/podcasts
The Dana Foundation: Kids (study of the brain)
---
http://www.dana.org/kids/
0
Science Advances: Combustion of available fossil fuel resources sufficient to
eliminate the Antarctic Ice Sheet ---
http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/1/8/e1500589
Medical Dictionary: Comprehensive Medical
Terminology Search ---
http://www.medilexicon.com/medicaldictionary.php
Earth Science ---
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_science
Faultline:
Earthquake History and Science | Exploratorium ---
http://www.exploratorium.edu/faultline/
The Big One: Earthquakes in the Pacific
Northwest ---
http://www.burkemuseum.org/static/earthquakes/index.html
Bob Jensen's threads on free online science,
engineering, and medicine tutorials are at --http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/bookbob2.htm
Bob Jensen's links to free courses and tutorials ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/updateee.htm#OKI
Social Science and Economics Tutorials
NOVA: Dawn of Humanity ---
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/evolution/dawn-of-humanity.html
Global International Migration Flows ---
http://www.global-migration.info/
Planned Obsolescence (in scholarly
communications) ---
http://www.plannedobsolescence.net/
Human: The Movie Features Interviews with 2,020
People from 60 Countries on What It Means to Be Human ---
http://www.openculture.com/2015/09/human-the-movie.html
The Big Roundtable: Publishing nonfiction short
stories ---
http://www.thebigroundtable.com/
Stream 100+ Free Movies from Paramount Pictures
on YouTube ---
http://www.openculture.com/2015/10/stream-100-free-movies-from-paramount-pictures-on-youtube.html
The Film Space (history of video) ---
http://www.thefilmspace.org
Bob Jensen's threads on the history of film ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/bookbob2.htm
Scroll down to Film
Bauhaus: Workshops for Modernity (history of
avant-garde movements) ---
http://www.moma.org/interactives/exhibitions/2009/bauhaus/Main.html
The New York Times: Transgender Resources
---
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/06/opinion/transgender-resources.html
National Center for Transgender Equality ---
http://transequality.org/
Material on the Lesbian, Gay,
Bisexual, and Transgendered Society
University of South Florida Libraries: LGBT Collections ---
University of South Florida Libraries: LGBT Collections
http://www.lib.usf.edu/special-collections/lgbt-collections/
Dallas Voice (a LGBT voice for Dallas, Homosexual) ---
http://digital.library.unt.edu/explore/collections/DALVO/
The Center for Science and Democracy ---
http://www.ucsusa.org/our-work/center-science-and-democracy
BBC World Service: The Fifth Floor (stories about current events around
the world) --- http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00mt9k
Reporters Without Borders ---
http://en.rsf.org/
Embargo Watch (news censorship) ---
https://embargowatch.wordpress.com/
Student Press Law Center ---
http://www.splc.org/
Civics Renewal Network: A Republic, If We Can Teach It ---
http://www.civicsrenewalnetwork.org/
Difference Between (about variations in
science, economics, politics, etc.) ---
http://www.differencebetween.net/
On Being with Krista Tippett (society and social relationship futures)
---
http://onbeing.org/
A New Nation Votes ---
http://elections.lib.tufts.edu/
Election Information ---
http://www.rockthevote.com/get-informed/elections/
Cross-Over Gaming Primary Elections: Voting for a Sure Loser Rather Than a
Candidate That Might Win?
Cross-Over Gaming Primary Elections: Voting for a Sure Loser
Rather Than a Candidate of Choice?
Based upon a comment I heard on CBS News there are signs that the poll
support and crowds supporting Donald Trump are largely members of the Democratic
Party intent on messing up the Republican Party primary outcomes. These Trump
supporters have no intent to vote for Donald Trump in the 2016 general election
if he should be nominated. Something similar may be happening among the
supporters of Bernie Sanders who are really Republicans in sheeps' white wool.
The USA system of selecting nominees in primary elections that precede general
elections possibly are becoming a vicious game.
Election Gaming "Fraud" in Primary Elections in the USA:
Making Sure Your General Election Opponent is a Real Loser
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/FraudulentElections.htm
FlackCheck.org ---
http://www.flackcheck.org
Headquartered at the Annenberg Public Policy Center of the
University of Pennsylvania, FlackCheck.org offers resources that help students
"recognize flaws in arguments in general and political ads in particular"
Bob Jensen's threads on Economics, Anthropology, Social Sciences, and
Philosophy tutorials are at
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/bookbob2.htm
Bob Jensen's links to free courses and tutorials ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/updateee.htm#OKI
Law and Legal Studies
Bob Jensen's threads on law and legal studies are at
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/bookbob2.htm
Math Tutorials
Yummy Math (illustrations of math in the real
world, including forecasting) ---
http://www.yummymath.com
Probability Lesson Starters and Online Activities ---
http://www.transum.org/Software/SW/Starter_of_the_day/Similar.asp?ID_Topic=30
Bob Jensen's threads on free online mathematics tutorials are at
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/bookbob2.htm
Scroll down to Mathematics
Bob Jensen's links to free courses and tutorials ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/updateee.htm#OKI
History Tutorials
The History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps Podcast, Now at 239 Episodes,
Expands into Eastern Philosophy ---
http://www.openculture.com/2015/09/the-history-of-philosophy-without-any-gaps-podcast-now-at-239-episodes-expands-into-eastern-philosophy.html
Philosophy TV ---
http://www.philostv.com/
The Film Space (history of video) ---
http://www.thefilmspace.org
Bob Jensen's threads on the history of film ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/bookbob2.htm
Scroll down to Film
NOVA: Dawn of Humanity ---
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/evolution/dawn-of-humanity.html
A Brief History of the Corporation: 1600 to 2100
by Venkatesh Rao ---
http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2011/06/08/a-brief-history-of-the-corporation-1600-to-2100/
Links to accounting history over the same time periods ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/theory01.htm#AccountingHistory
Free: The Guggenheim Puts Online 1600 Great
Works of Modern Art from 575 Artists ---
http://www.openculture.com/2015/10/free-the-guggenheim-puts-online-1600-great-works-of-modern-art-from-575-artists.html
Global International Migration Flows ---
http://www.global-migration.info/
London Transport Museum: Poster Collection ---
http://www.ltmcollection.org/posters/index.html
Europe's 8 greatest military leaders of all time
---
http://www.businessinsider.com/europes-greatest-military-leaders-2015-5
The Great War: Video Series Will Document How WWI Unfolded, Week-by-Week, for
the Next 4 Years ---
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OpenCulture/~3/DHsCd4kJgMM/the-great-war-video-series-will-document-how-wwi-unfolded-week-by-week-for-the-next-4-years.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email
Interactive WWI Timeline ---
https://theworldwar.org/explore/interactive-wwi-timeline
Toronto Poetry Map ---
http://www.torontopoetry.ca/
Bob Jensen's threads on poetry ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/electronicLiterature.htm#OnlinePoemFinders
Banned Books Week: Celebrating the Freedom to
Read ---
http://www.ala.org/bbooks/bannedbooksweek
Bob Jensen's threads on banned books ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/electronicLiterature.htm#Banned
Free Electronic Literature ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/ElectronicLiterature.htm
From the Scout Report on August 1, 2014
The World War I Centennial
Indiana University commemorating World War I centennial in 2014-15
http://www.newsday.com/news/nation/indiana-university-commemorating-world-war-i-centennial-in-2014-15-1.8932785
European Peace Walk commemorates WWI centennial
http://www.today.com/travel/european-peace-walk-commemorates-wwi-centennial-1D79975858
The Centennial of WWI
http://abcnews.go.com/International/photos/centennial-wwi-24667190/image-wwi-centennial-recalls-terror-trenches-24667492
Sarajevo Celebrates WWI Centennial With Joy And The Macabre
http://www.npr.org/2014/06/28/326406767/sarajevo-celebrates-wwi-centennial-with-joy-and-the-macabre
“One Century Later” panel to discuss enduring influence of Great War
http://worldwar-1centennial.org/
BBC: World War One Centenary
http://www.bbc.co.uk/ww1
The animals that served in the first world war: in pictures ---
http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/gallery/2014/sep/03/the-animals-that-served-in-the-first-world-war-in-pictures?CMP=twt_gu
Imperial War Museums ---
http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections-research
Animated Map Lets You Watch the Unfolding
of Every Day of the U.S. Civil War (1861-1865) ---
http://www.openculture.com/2015/10/animated-map-lets-you-watch-the-unfolding-of-every-day-of-the-u-s-civil-war-1861-1865.html
The Big One: Earthquakes in the Pacific
Northwest ---
http://www.burkemuseum.org/static/earthquakes/index.html
NBC University Theater Adapts Great Novels to
Radio & Gives Listeners College Credit : Hear 110 Episodes from a 1940s
eLearning Experiment ---
http://www.openculture.com/2015/10/nbc-university-theater-adapts-great-novels-to-radio-gives-listeners-college-credit-hear-110-episodes-from-a-1940s-elearning-experiment.html
Aubrey Beardsley’s Macabre Illustrations of
Edgar Allan Poe’s Short Stories (1894) ---
Nikola Tesla’s Predictions for the 21st Century: The Rise of
Smart Phones & Wireless, The Demise of Coffee, The Rule of Eugenics (1926/35)
---
http://www.openculture.com/2015/09/nikola-teslas-predictions-for-the-21st-century.html
The African Studies Collection ---
http://uwdc.library.wisc.edu/collections/AfricanStudies/HaroldScheub
Bauhaus: Workshops for Modernity (history of
avant-garde movements) ---
http://www.moma.org/interactives/exhibitions/2009/bauhaus/Main.html
Elephind (digital newspaper collection) ---
https://www.elephind.com/
Papyri.info ---
http://www.papyri.info/
I could not find anything of interest in terms of accounting and business
history
Google's Dead Sea Scrolls Project: Why Putting Parchment & Papyrus
in the
Cloud Matters to Civilization
http://www.wired.com/cloudline/2011/09/googles-dead-sea-scrolls-project-why-putting-parchment-papyrus-in-the-cloud-matters-to-civilization/
Encyclopedia Virginia ---
http://www.encyclopediavirginia.org
Cuban Missile Crisis: Tools for Teachers ---
http://www.cubanmissilecrisis.org
A New Nation Votes ---
http://elections.lib.tufts.edu/
Election Information ---
http://www.rockthevote.com/get-informed/elections/
Cross-Over Gaming Primary Elections: Voting for a Sure Loser Rather Than a
Candidate That Might Win?
Cross-Over Gaming Primary Elections: Voting for a Sure Loser
Rather Than a Candidate of Choice?
Based upon a comment I heard on CBS News there are signs that the poll
support and crowds supporting Donald Trump are largely members of the Democratic
Party intent on messing up the Republican Party primary outcomes. These Trump
supporters have no intent to vote for Donald Trump in the 2016 general election
if he should be nominated. Something similar may be happening among the
supporters of Bernie Sanders who are really Republicans in sheeps' white wool.
The USA system of selecting nominees in primary elections that precede general
elections possibly are becoming a vicious game.
Election Gaming "Fraud" in Primary Elections in the USA:
Making Sure Your General Election Opponent is a Real Loser
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/FraudulentElections.htm
FlackCheck.org ---
http://www.flackcheck.org
Headquartered at the Annenberg Public Policy Center of the
University of Pennsylvania, FlackCheck.org offers resources that help students
"recognize flaws in arguments in general and political ads in particular"
Oberlin College Archives
http://www.oberlin.edu/archive/
Bob Jensen's threads on history tutorials are at
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/bookbob2.htm
Also see
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/ElectronicLiterature.htm
Bob Jensen's links to free courses and tutorials ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/updateee.htm#OKI
Language Tutorials
Bob Jensen's links to language tutorials are at
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/bookbob2-Part2.htm#Languages
Music Tutorials
Bob Jensen's threads on free music tutorials are at
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/bookbob2.htm
Bob Jensen's threads on music performances ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/music.htm
Writing Tutorials
Bob Jensen's helpers for writers are at
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Bookbob3.htm#Dictionaries
Bob Jensen's threads on medicine ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/bookbob2-Part2.htm#Medicine
Updates from WebMD ---
http://www.webmd.com/
September 26, 2015
September 28, 2015
September 29, 2015
September 30, 2015
October 1, 2015
October 2, 2015
October 3, 2015
October 5, 2015
October 6, 2015
October 7, 2015
October 8, 2015
October 9, 2015
October 10, 2015
Medical Dictionary: Comprehensive Medical
Terminology Search ---
http://www.medilexicon.com/medicaldictionary.php
"A New Attack on Parkinson’s Disease," by
Jon Palfreman, The Wall Street Journal, October 2, 2015 ---
http://www.wsj.com/articles/a-new-attack-on-parkinsons-disease-1443827360?mod=djemMER
One promising approach could
also help with other neurodegenerative disorders, including Alzheimer’s and
Huntington’s disease.
Walking in the east London
neighborhood of Shoreditch in the early 1800s, the physician James Parkinson
noticed certain individuals who moved differently from the crowd. In 1817 he
articulated their symptoms, such as tremor, rigidity, slow movements and
stooped gait. His “Essay on the Shaking Palsy” became the first description
of what is now called Parkinson’s disease. Toward the end of this classic
document, Parkinson remarked in passing, “there appears to be sufficient
reason for hoping that some remedial process may ere long be discovered, by
which, at least, the progress of the disease may be stopped.”
Some 200 years later, the
disease, which affects one million Americans and seven million people
world-wide, still hasn’t been cured. While drugs such as L-dopa and
surgeries such as deep brain stimulation can help manage the symptoms, all
attempts to slow, stop or reverse the disease’s course have failed. Efforts
to protect dopamine cells with drugs, to revive dopamine cells with special
growth factors and, most controversially, to graft new dopamine-making cells
derived from fetal tissue into the brains of Parkinson’s patients, have not
panned out.
Yet recent developments have
given patients like myself hope that we may be on the verge of a
breakthrough that could stop the disease as James Parkinson predicted.
Continued in article
Wound Glue Instead of Stitches ---
She May Solve One of the Oldest Problems in Surgery ---
http://time.com/4037531/maria-pereira/?xid=newsletter-brief
A Short, Powerful Animation on Addiction:
Watch Andreas Hykade’s Nuggets ---
http://www.openculture.com/2015/10/a-short-powerful-animation-on-addiction-watch-andreas-hykades-nuggets.html
Trucker News and Health ---
http://www.truckersnews.com/
Humor October 1-12, 2015
Forwarded by Paula
A gorgeous young redhead goes into the doctor's
office and said that her body hurt wherever she touched it. "Impossible!" says
the doctor. "Show me."
The redhead took her finger, pushed on her left
wrist and screamed, then she pushed her elbow and screamed in even more. She
pushed her knee and screamed; likewise she pushed her ankle and screamed.
Everywhere she touched made her scream.
The doctor said, "You're not really a redhead,
are you?
"Well, no" she said, "I'm actually a blonde."
"I thought so," the doctor said. "Your finger is
broken"
Forwarded by Paula
It got crowded in heaven, so, for one day it was
decided only to accept people who had really had a bad day on the day they died.
St. Peter was standing at the pearly gates and said to the first man, "Tell me
about the day you died."
The man said, "Oh, it was awful. I was sure my
wife was having an affair, so I came home early to catch her with him. I
searched all over the apartment but couldn't find him anywhere. So I went out
onto the balcony, we live on the 25th floor, and found this man hanging over the
edge by his fingertips. I went inside, got a hammer, and started hitting his
hands. He fell, but landed in some bushes. So, I got the refrigerator and pushed
it over the balcony and it crushed him. The strain of the act gave me a heart
attack, and I died."
St. Peter couldn't deny that this was a pretty
bad day, and since it was a crime of passion, he let the man in.
He then asked the next man in line about the day
he died. "Well, sir, it was awful," said the second man. "I was doing aerobics
on the balcony of my 26th floor apartment when I twisted my ankle and slipped
over the edge. I managed to grab the balcony of the apartment below, but some
maniac came out and started pounding on my fingers with a hammer. Luckily I
landed in some bushes. But, then the guy dropped a refrigerator on me!"
St. Peter chuckled, let him into heaven and
decided he could really start to enjoy this job.
"Tell me about the day you died?", he said to
the third man in line.
"OK, picture this, I'm naked, hiding inside a
refrigerator...."
Humor September 1-30, 2015
---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/book15q3.htm#Humor093015
Humor August 1-31, 2015
---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/book15q3.htm#Humor081115
Humor July 1-31, 2015
---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/book15q3.htm#Humor073115
Humor June 1-30, 2015
---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/book15q2.htm#Humor043015
Humor May 1-31, 2015
---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/book15q2.htm#Humor043015
Humor April 1-30, 2015
---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/book15q2.htm#Humor043015
Humor March 1-31, 2015
---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/book15q1.htm#Humor033115
Humor February 1-28, 2015
---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/book15q1.htm#Humor022815
Humor January 1-31, 2015
---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/book15q1.htm#Humor013115
Humor December 1-31, 2014
---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/book14q4.htm#Humor123114
Humor November 1-30, 2014
---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/book14q4.htm#Humor113014
Humor October 1-31, 2014
---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/book14q4.htm#Humor103114
Humor September 1-30, 2014
---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/book14q3.htm#Humor093014
Humor August 1-31, 2014
---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/book14q3.htm#Humor083114
Humor July 1-31, 2014---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/book14q3.htm#Humor073114
Tidbits Archives ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/TidbitsDirectory.htm
More of Bob Jensen's Pictures and
Stories
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Pictures.htm
Update in
2014
20-Year Sugar Hill Master Plan ---
http://www.nccouncil.org/images/NCC/file/wrkgdraftfeb142014.pdf
Click here to search Bob Jensen's web site if you have key words to enter ---
Search Site.
For example if you want to know what Jensen documents have the term "Enron"
enter the phrase Jensen AND Enron. Another search engine that covers Trinity and
other universities is at
http://www.searchedu.com/
Online Distance Education Training and Education ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Crossborder.htm
For-Profit Universities Operating in the Gray
Zone of Fraud (College, Inc.) ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/HigherEdControversies.htm#ForProfitFraud
Shielding Against Validity Challenges in Plato's Cave ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/TheoryTAR.htm
-
With a Rejoinder from the 2010 Senior Editor of The Accounting Review
(TAR), Steven J. Kachelmeier
- With Replies in Appendix 4 to Professor Kachemeier by Professors
Jagdish Gangolly and Paul Williams
- With Added Conjectures in Appendix 1 as to Why the Profession of
Accountancy Ignores TAR
- With Suggestions in Appendix 2 for Incorporating Accounting Research
into Undergraduate Accounting Courses
The Cult of Statistical Significance:
How Standard Error Costs Us Jobs, Justice, and Lives ---
http://www.cs.trinity.edu/~rjensen/temp/DeirdreMcCloskey/StatisticalSignificance01.htm
How Accountics Scientists Should Change:
"Frankly, Scarlett, after I get a hit for my resume in The Accounting Review
I just don't give a damn"
http://www.cs.trinity.edu/~rjensen/temp/AccounticsDamn.htm
One more mission in what's left of my life will be to try to change this
http://www.cs.trinity.edu/~rjensen/temp/AccounticsDamn.htm
What went wrong in accounting/accountics research?
---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/theory01.htm#WhatWentWrong
The Sad State of Accountancy Doctoral
Programs That Do Not Appeal to Most Accountants ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/theory01.htm#DoctoralPrograms
AN ANALYSIS OF THE EVOLUTION OF RESEARCH
CONTRIBUTIONS BY THE ACCOUNTING REVIEW: 1926-2005 ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/395wpTAR/Web/TAR395wp.htm#_msocom_1
Bob Jensen's threads on accounting theory
---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/theory01.htm
Tom Lehrer on Mathematical Models and
Statistics ---
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfZWyUXn3So
Systemic problems of accountancy (especially the
vegetable nutrition paradox) that probably will never be solved ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/FraudConclusion.htm#BadNews
World Clock ---
http://www.peterussell.com/Odds/WorldClock.php
Facts about the earth in real time ---
http://www.worldometers.info/
Interesting Online Clock
and Calendar
---
http://home.tiscali.nl/annejan/swf/timeline.swf
Time by Time Zones ---
http://timeticker.com/
Projected Population Growth (it's out of control) ---
http://geography.about.com/od/obtainpopulationdata/a/worldpopulation.htm
Also see
http://users.rcn.com/jkimball.ma.ultranet/BiologyPages/P/Populations.html
Facts about population growth (video) ---
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMcfrLYDm2U
Projected U.S. Population Growth ---
http://www.carryingcapacity.org/projections75.html
Real time meter of the U.S. cost of the war in Iraq ---
http://www.costofwar.com/
Enter you zip code to get Census Bureau comparisons ---
http://zipskinny.com/
Sure wish there'd be a little good news today.
Free (updated) Basic Accounting Textbook --- search for Hoyle at
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/ElectronicLiterature.htm#Textbooks
CPA Examination ---
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cpa_examination
Free CPA Examination Review Course Courtesy of Joe Hoyle ---
http://cpareviewforfree.com/
Rick Lillie's education, learning, and technology blog is at
http://iaed.wordpress.com/
Accounting News, Blogs, Listservs, and Social
Networking ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/AccountingNews.htm
Bob Jensen's Threads ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/threads.htm
Current and past editions of my newsletter called New
Bookmarks ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/bookurl.htm
Current and past editions of my newsletter called
Tidbits ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/TidbitsDirectory.htm
Current and past editions of my newsletter called Fraud
Updates ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/FraudUpdates.htm
Online Books, Poems, References,
and Other Literature
In the past I've provided links to various types electronic literature available
free on the Web.
I created a page that summarizes those various links ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/ElectronicLiterature.htm
Some of Bob Jensen's Tutorials
Accounting program news items for colleges are posted at
http://www.accountingweb.com/news/college_news.html
Sometimes the news items provide links to teaching resources for accounting
educators.
Any college may post a news item.
Accounting and Taxation News Sites ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/AccountingNews.htm
For an elaboration on the reasons you should join a ListServ (usually for
free) go to http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/ListServRoles.htm
AECM
(Educators)
http://listserv.aaahq.org/cgi-bin/wa.exe?HOME
AECM is an email Listserv list which
provides a forum for discussions of all hardware and software
which can be useful in any way for accounting education at the
college/university level. Hardware includes all platforms and
peripherals. Software includes spreadsheets, practice sets,
multimedia authoring and presentation packages, data base
programs, tax packages, World Wide Web applications, etc.
Over the years the AECM has become the worldwide forum for
accounting educators on all issues of accountancy and accounting
education, including debates on accounting standards, managerial
accounting, careers, fraud, forensic accounting, auditing,
doctoral programs, and critical debates on academic (accountics)
research, publication, replication, and validity testing.
|
CPAS-L
(Practitioners)
http://pacioli.loyola.edu/cpas-l/ (Closed
Down)
CPAS-L provides a forum for discussions of
all aspects of the practice of accounting. It provides an
unmoderated environment where issues, questions, comments,
ideas, etc. related to accounting can be freely discussed.
Members are welcome to take an active role by posting to CPAS-L
or an inactive role by just monitoring the list. You qualify for
a free subscription if you are either a CPA or a professional
accountant in public accounting, private industry, government or
education. Others will be denied access. |
Yahoo (Practitioners)
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/xyztalk
This forum is for CPAs to discuss the activities of the AICPA.
This can be anything from the CPA2BIZ portal to the XYZ
initiative or anything else that relates to the AICPA. |
AccountantsWorld
http://accountantsworld.com/forums/default.asp?scope=1
This site hosts various discussion groups on such topics as
accounting software, consulting, financial planning, fixed
assets, payroll, human resources, profit on the Internet, and
taxation. |
Business Valuation Group
BusValGroup-subscribe@topica.com
This discussion group is headed by Randy Schostag
[RSchostag@BUSVALGROUP.COM] |
FEI's Financial Reporting Blog
Smart Stops on the Web, Journal of Accountancy, March 2008 ---
http://www.aicpa.org/pubs/jofa/mar2008/smart_stops.htm
FINANCIAL REPORTING PORTAL
www.financialexecutives.org/blog
Find news highlights from the SEC, FASB
and the International Accounting
Standards Board on this financial
reporting blog from Financial Executives
International. The site, updated daily,
compiles regulatory news, rulings and
statements, comment letters on
standards, and hot topics from the Web’s
largest business and accounting
publications and organizations. Look for
continuing coverage of SOX requirements,
fair value reporting and the Alternative
Minimum Tax, plus emerging issues such
as the subprime mortgage crisis,
international convergence, and rules for
tax return preparers. |
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The CAlCPA Tax Listserv September 4, 2008 message from Scott Bonacker
[lister@bonackers.com]
Scott has been a long-time contributor to the AECM listserv (he's a techie as
well as a practicing CPA)
I found another listserve
that is exceptional -
CalCPA maintains
http://groups.yahoo.com/taxtalk/
and they let almost anyone join it.
Jim Counts, CPA is moderator.
There are several highly
capable people that make frequent answers to tax questions posted there, and
the answers are often in depth.
Scott
Scott forwarded the following message from Jim
Counts
Yes you may mention info on
your listserve about TaxTalk. As part of what you say please say [... any
CPA or attorney or a member of the Calif Society of CPAs may join. It is
possible to join without having a free Yahoo account but then they will not
have access to the files and other items posted.
Once signed in on their Yahoo account go to
http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/TaxTalk/ and I believe in
top right corner is Join Group. Click on it and answer the few questions and
in the comment box say you are a CPA or attorney, whichever you are and I
will get the request to join.
Be aware that we run on the average 30 or move emails per day. I encourage
people to set up a folder for just the emails from this listserve and then
via a rule or filter send them to that folder instead of having them be in
your inbox. Thus you can read them when you want and it will not fill up the
inbox when you are looking for client emails etc.
We currently have about 830 CPAs and attorneys nationwide but mainly in
California.... ]
Please encourage your members
to join our listserve.
If any questions let me know.
Jim Counts CPA.CITP CTFA
Hemet, CA
Moderator TaxTalk
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Many useful accounting sites (scroll down) ---
http://www.iasplus.com/links/links.htm
Bob Jensen's Sort-of Blogs ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/JensenBlogs.htm
Current and past editions of my newsletter called New
Bookmarks ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/bookurl.htm
Current and past editions of my newsletter called
Tidbits ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/TidbitsDirectory.htm
Current and past editions of my newsletter called Fraud
Updates ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/FraudUpdates.htm
Some
Accounting History Sites
Bob Jensen's
Accounting History in a Nutshell and Links ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/theory01.htm#AccountingHistory
Accounting
History Libraries at the University of Mississippi (Ole Miss) ---
http://www.olemiss.edu/depts/accountancy/libraries.html
The above libraries include international accounting history.
The above libraries include film and video historical collections.
MAAW Knowledge Portal for Management and Accounting ---
http://maaw.info/
Academy of Accounting Historians and the Accounting Historians Journal ---
http://www.accounting.rutgers.edu/raw/aah/
Sage Accounting History ---
http://ach.sagepub.com/cgi/pdf_extract/11/3/269
A nice timeline on the development of U.S. standards and the evolution of
thinking about the income statement versus the balance sheet is provided at:
"The Evolution of U.S. GAAP: The Political Forces Behind Professional
Standards (1930-1973)," by Stephen A. Zeff, CPA Journal, January 2005
---
http://www.nysscpa.org/cpajournal/2005/105/infocus/p18.htm
Part II covering years 1974-2003 published in February 2005 ---
http://www.nysscpa.org/cpajournal/2005/205/index.htm
A nice
timeline of accounting history ---
http://www.docstoc.com/docs/2187711/A-HISTORY-OF-ACCOUNTING
From Texas
A&M University
Accounting History Outline ---
http://acct.tamu.edu/giroux/history.html
Bob
Jensen's timeline of derivative financial instruments and hedge accounting ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/FraudRotten.htm#DerivativesFrauds
History of
Fraud in America ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/415wp/AmericanHistoryOfFraud.htm
Also see
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Fraud.htm
Bob Jensen's
Threads ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/threads.htm
More of Bob Jensen's Pictures and
Stories
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Pictures.htm
All
my online pictures ---
http://www.cs.trinity.edu/~rjensen/PictureHistory/
Professor Robert E. Jensen (Bob)
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen
190 Sunset Hill Road
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Phone: 603-823-8482
Email:
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