Captain Excel

I was having a discussion with a colleague concerning the Excel skills in industry versus public accounting.  We agreed that, generally speaking and based on surveys of class participants in our respective Excel CPE classes, industry users are more advanced than public accounting users.  Within public accounting, regional firm users are more advanced than local and big four users.  Why is that?

Time to revisit one of my favorite subjects, gas prices, more specifically the volatile nature of gas prices.  Because sticker shock is in play again.  What can we do?

Following is a graph of the average monthly price of regular gasoline in the US from June 2008 through April 2011:

The Ubuntu operating system and Open Office suite experiment is officially over.  I have one set up in my home.  It is used mostly for internet and word processing.  The operating system is great.  I give it two thumbs up.  The Open Office suite seems  good.  I am not enough of a word processing user to determine the pros and cons of Open Office vs.

The Ubuntu and Open Office experiment is on.  Are the free operating system and office programs worth it?  I took a Lenovo computer I bought in 2007 to my friend's house to start the process.  I went to the gym, and he downloaded the software onto a disk and then loaded the software from the disk onto my computer.  The deed was done by the time I got back to his house, less than an hour.

It's been way too long my friends.  I have a lot of catching up to do.  Now that CPE season is over and next year's budget is in hand, it's time to blog again.