I heard today that in the first quarter of 2006, American retail figures were up more than expected.
These were the last three months I was out there....
Coincidence?
I think not :-)
Thursday, May 04, 2006
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- Mark T
- Im 38 Im from the Uk, and I started this blog as a diary of my time in the USA. I returned a few years ago
12 comments:
musta been all that snowboarding gear and all them dodgy dvds. oh and of course all those curries and beer.
Do you mean that investor confidence has increased since you left? I see what you are getting at.
No Evo :-) Its quite simple...im not explaining it to you :-)
even i got the reasons right and im just a thick bus driver
You got the reasons right? Were they published in the NYFT or something?
Anyway, I'm stroking my stripes and claiming superior knowledge of the way financial reporting works. Anyone want to argue, I shall need to see your practising certificate first.
"ive got a certificate to prove it"
you sound like one of my brother in laws :0)
you must have failed this bit of the course, because if you are up on these things you would never get a job as an analyst..............let me take you through the bit you missed..........are you sitting comfortably, then i will begin. you asked does it mean confidence has increased since he left?
well read it carefully and you will see that he wrote, this was for the LAST 3 MONTHS HE WAS THERE, if i were you id get the brasso out cos your stripes seem to be a bit tarnished. i dont know, a financial whizz kid with a certificate misses that and a bus driver with a clean driving licence spots it, woo hoo i might go to barclays see if they got any vacancies.what were you saying about does anyone want an argument i think i just blew you out of the water, wanna try something a bit simpler, i say 1+2 = 3 wanna argue about that 1.
sorry about that but sometimes certificates are just not worth the paper they are written on, and i find life experience more useful. and also my english cse came in handy, we were always taught read the question twice before answering the question so that you fully understand it.
RTFQ in deed, how about a moren sensible overhaul of the facts (can't believe an off handed comment needs this much analysis but there you go).
The quarters trading results eh, do you have any idea of how they are collated? There's this famous interview question (thought they didn't get it on the apprentice - shame.) It goes like this:
Lots of numbers put under the noses of the candidate and the question is: "what is the profit".
Most people struggle for half an hour or so on these numbers but the succesful candidate just pipes up immediately, "Well what do you want it to be?"
I am going to make allowances for you though since experience has taught me that you are prone to believing everything you read :p. You would probably make a very good auditor.
Oh and actually, you get a practice certificate not by passing exams but through on the job experience (and of course, a small fee)
I only mentioned it since I used to prepare the economic surveys for Humberside and do have some not insubstantia inside information on these things. they make me smile usually.
so the profit is what you want it to be, were you told what figures you had to come up with for humberside or were they your own guess work?
things that make me smile are.....people falling off thier bikes, people dropping a very valuable thing and it smashing, hull fc getting stuffed. oh yeah and twats trying to dig themselves out of holes :0)
I'm sorry to have disturbed your blissful ignorance.
You are quite right, the figures never lie.
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