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The Selling of Duncan
Williamson
I am a self employed author, consultant, educator and trainer ... you
need to know what I can do for you. Here is my sales pitch!
Go to the Selling Duncan Section.
Where
have I been?
Regular
visitors to this site have been commenting that nothing is changing
very often these days. It's true and I am really sorry. I have put huge
efforts into this site over the years as you know
So
what has happened? Well, I love travelling and I am doing a lot of it
at the moment. Whilst I do spend time at home, when I am there I am
usually preparing for my next trip.
Bit
of a Catch 22
situation. Still, this site is always on my mind as I still attract
tens of thousands of visitors a month and get letters from my visitors
on a regular basis.
I have just bought the latest version of Dreamweaver, CS4, in an attempt to help me to kickstart this web site again. I am developing loads of materials all of the time but don't always get the chance to upload them ... watch this space again! It's early November now and since I wrote that I have created and uploaded several new pages. Hooray!
So Where Have I Been Travelling to?
Beijing was fantastic. Not only did daughter Fran bring back a Silver and a Bronze medal for Great Britain from the Paralympic Games but I enjoyed the experience enormously. Great city, great people, great event. It's all in my Blog!
My Blog
My
Blog is active of course. I am able via my mobile phone and computer to
keep my personal Blog up and running. You will see all sorts of
comments and conjecture there. Sometimes I am deadly serious and
sometimes I am a laugh a minute.
Take
a look and see what you think!
Photographs
I
used to be a keen photographer in days of yore. Well, I have gone back
to that and I am snapping away wherever I go these days. There is some
photo album software that comes with the server where I host this site
and I expect I will start using that soon ... keep your eyes open.
So
I did that already ... I have uploaded some SAMPLES
for you to look at. Just a few of my snaps from my week in Prague.
Prague is a gorgeous city for cityscape photographers, by the way!
Sign
my Guestbook
Why
not sign my guestbook? Let me know who
you are and where you are from ... just say hello, how are you?
Can
I ask you not to be impolite or offensive though? I don't need any more
adverts for pornography or penile extensions either ... you get the
idea!
I
SAID PLEASE DON'T DO ANYTHING IMPOLITE OR OFFENSIVE. So the very first
person, a boy almost certainly, thought it would be really funny to
post something stupid. It isn't funny, boy.
Duncan
Williamson
7th November 2008
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My WeBlog
It's still a lively place to be: it contains, for example, one of only three references on the whole of google to gusset trauma! There's a new saga: my new iPod touch. I have prepared a Blog entry on the nonsense way that the UK press is reporting the latest GDP figures for the UK ... go to my WeBlog entry for that, I have also prepared a page on this site that is just a little bit different from the Blog entry. Anyway ...
Go to the Other
Business Section
Management
Accounting
If you are a management accountant you need to see the books I have bought recently ... combined with learning how to use Spry Data Sets in Dreamweaver CS4. Go to the management accounting home page and follow the trail.
Want a real live NPV type question? You've got it:
go to the Management Accounting Home page, look at the menu under
Control and then click on the Real NPV Example page ... apply your
knowledge to something real why don't you?
Go to the
Management Accounting Section
Financial
Accounting and Bookkeeping ... my Home Grown but Excellent Materials
A good case study on ratio analysis based on Tesco plc, comes with a teaching note for teachers.
A great new page ... on British Petroleum ... taking ratio analysis a
stage further: this page helps to illustrate what can come out of an
analysis of the results of a company when we use rate of growth or rate
of change ratios. You might even be surprised!
Go to the
Financial Accounting Section
Speadsheeting
I have put together a few elements of the debate on good and bad spreadsheet modelling practice. Not everything but well worth reading just to make sure!
My review of Bob Umlas' book tells you it is a must buy: This isn’t Excel, it’s Magic! Look at the book review section for much more of this excellent book.
How about learning how to create a waterfall chart? How about a chart based on data that comes from using a combobox? They're here now!
My first real demo, of sorts, using Excel 2007: making a chart
communicate more effectively.
Two fantastic pages: one on the VLOOKUP function together with Range
Names and the other one on the ISERROR function together with
Conditional Formatting. Both of these new pages have beend esigned to
be used in the context of financial ratio analysis.
You might need to use the XNPV and XIRR functions some day so here's a
page that shows you why and how. This page also reveals a minor Excel
error and a potentially more serious one. This page is also of use to
OpenOfficeOrg spreadsheet users.
Go to the
Spreadsheeting Section
Book Reviews
For cost accountants, take a good look at Andrew Wileman's Driving Down Costs.
If you are serious about Excel spreadsheets you must read Bob Umlas' My review of Bob Umlas' book is a must: This isn’t Excel, it’s Magic!and there is Alastair L Day's Mastering Financial Modelling in Excel that is good but is more specialist than Bob Umlas' book.
Liz Smith's Our Betty is an idiosyncratic
autobiography of the nation's favourite mother/in law ... she's the
mother in law from the Royle Family uthere inreal life!
Michael Crichton's book Congo
is a good read but not as good as the later novels of his that I have
read; and John Harvey's Lonely Hearts is an
average British detective story with an archetypical British detective
at the centre of it!
I really don't know how I got to the end of Chocolat
by
Joanne Harris as I found it a dreadful read, especially the first half
of the book. There was just something in the style of writing and the
storyline that left me absolutely cold.
Chris Zook has written a good and serious book on the hidden assets of
the company. It is well researched, well written and well worth the time
taken to read it. It will give you many insights through the 25 cases
that Zook presents.
Go to the Book Reviews Section
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