Monthly Archives: April 2009

Pricing: vases and coffee pots

My father-in-law was an executive at Wedgwood and responsible, among other things, for pricing every piece of china they made. Wedgwood has recently been run into the ground by Waterford Crystal who had acquired it, and it is now in … Continue reading

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Technology of SOX

Sarbanes-Oxley, often abbreviated to SOX, is a set of accounting rules that were introduced by congress in response to the accounting scandals of Enron, Worldcom and their like during the dotcom boom. It is a mixture of different regulations, some … Continue reading

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Visa. Priceless

It’s April 1st but apart from being an excuse for a lot of weak mildly humorous blog entries, today is also the day that applications for H-1 visas opens. And probably closes based on historical precedent. The current downturn has lead … Continue reading

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