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A lovely Earth Day in Dublin

It’s been an uneventful past couple of days, so I’ve skipped daily posts. I’m continuing to focus more time on studying for my first CMA exam that’s just three weeks away, and today I finished the next-to-last section on the topic of internal controls — I passed the test exam questions on my first try.  Today I also had a brief 30-min interview with Climate2025.org...

CMA studies, walk along Liffey, vaccines open for 65+

I haven’t posted in a few days… I’ve been intentionally focusing on my CMA study program since I only have three weeks before my first exam. As a result, I’ve stayed in and haven’t had much to write about… I assume no one really wants to here about absorption costing, variable manufacturing overhead, or the weighted average value method for valuing work-in-process inventories. In...

Studying, another bank bites the dust, more hotel quarantine updates, and… a bunny!

Today is all about study, study, study… I’m trying to ramp up for the 1st exam for my CMA qualification scheduled for May 13. As a consequence, this will be a brief post. My weekly SuperValu grocery delivery is scheduled for my usual window of 10:30-12:30, and shortly after 11:00 I get a call from the delivery person saying they are downstairs. I don’t recognize him from...