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September 30, 2005
Not in Kansas anymore, certainly
I appear to have survived this week's ordeal of College of Business Ritual Pain. Yesterday's tax exam was rigorous but not too bad, and inasmuch as I arrived reasonably well prepared, I was at least able to answer all the questions and have some idea how to do the calculations. Flying colors are probably out of the question, but I'm optimistic that I'm somewhere in the middle of the pack. Meanwhile, the results are in for Tuesday night's inquisition in 455, and although I didn't particularly distinguish myself, if the semester ended today, I'd be putting a B on the scorecard (albeit a low B -- if this were bass trombone, we'd be talking both triggers, with the slide pulled out to a long 7th position. Well, that's assuming we had old-fashioned F and E triggers, not the more modern F and D. But I digress). In the senior year of NAU's accounting program, one is "not in Kansas anymore," as a friend of mine put it. He should know -- he's a graduate of the same program I'm going through, and now is a successful CPA who drives an upscale Japanese car and wears finely tailored suits.
Grinding out passing grades and moving on -- "winning ugly," if you will -- is fine with me. But now we're moving on to the next topic: accounting for income taxes. This one is going to be tougher than leases and pensions (which were bad enough as it is). So I'm going to have to put the hammer down even harder, over the next few weeks.
Posted by Urbie at September 30, 2005 12:23 PM