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Top 3 Indie-Rock Records of the Year
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I’m finding myself more and more disinterested in the indie-rock genre. It’s hard to find an artist or group who isn’t just writing songs to get featured in Apple or Scion commercials. With the huge success of indie movie soundtracks like Twlight: New Moon and Garden State, indie-rock is officially mainstream, with 12 year old girls singing the new Radiohead song or extolling the beauty of Animal Collective’s “My Girls,” yet there are still some honest and wonderful artists in the genre. Here are a three of my favorite indie-rock records of the year.
David Bazan – “Curse Your Branches”
David Bazan is well known in the indie circles as the literate and honest singer of Pedro the Lion. That band has since broken up and Bazan has spend the past few years on his own, playing small houses shows around the country to get back into the groove of playing live shows again. His newest record is quite possible his best and most emotioniall wrenching yet. Well known in music circles as a Christian believer, Bazan has since “broken up” with the faith and “Curse Your Branches” is an album about his struggle with faith and family. It is almost unbearably sad and honest to hear Bazan sing about putting his little daughter to bed, still reeking like liquor after a depression fuelled binge.
The Mountain Goats – “The Life of the World to Come”
One of my favorite artists, period, John Darnielle, the main singer and songwriter of The Mountain Goats can do little wrong in my book. One of the most intelligent and clever lyricists, The Mountain Goats’ albums are often conceptual in nature and revolve around certain themes to tie them together. “The Life of the World to Come” is no different, with each song named and loosely related to a different verse from the Bible. Darnielle doesn’t consider himself a traditional Christian, but treats the Bible as any other literary work, like “Old Man and the Sea” or “Ulysses.” It is a quiet and memorable work of art deserving to be placed in a museum or on a display easel.
The Clientele – “Bonfires on the Heath”
The Clientele have been releasing some of the best, most low key and gloomy alternative rock for a decade now. Rumors had been swirling that “Bonfires on the Heath” will be their swan song, and if it is, they will go out at their peak, writing and recording some of the smartest music for walking around in the fog or the rain.
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Modern romance stories cover a broad field that embraces the paranormal, historical, western, black, fantasy, as well as American romance fiction. Plot lines strive to be fresh and settings are often intricate and detailed. Above all, the characters experience a yearning that has them looking for love and intimacy.
Many readers enjoy romantic fantasies and some of the best writers of romantic fiction are active today. Of course, the success of the Twilight novels (and movies), the True Blood TV series and the Vampire Diaries have given a push to what is known as paranormal romance.
Although the love lives of ordinary people are still hugely popular, as can be seen with the work of Nicholas Spark (The Notebook, Dear John and Message in a Bottle), many romance novels today delve into a fantasy world that is a step (or more) beyond normal reality.
So, although readers might still hunger for the Rhett Butlers who carry Scarlett O’Hara up the staircase (Gone With The Wind), a lot of the heroes and heroines in today’s fiction also possess uncommon powers. Maybe they can change shape (shape shifters and werewolves), read minds (telepaths) foresee events (seers), speak to the dead (necromancers), display extraordinary strength and speed (vampires) or have other skills that equip them beyond the ordinary.
Of course, historical romance is still very much alive and kicking with many modern romance novels that make use of gothic, Victorian, Regency, confederate, western, etc. settings. Lords, princes, highlanders and pirates abound in the historical fiction of Stephanie Laurens (The Elusive Bride), Diana Gabaldon (An Echo in the Bone), Sabrina Jeffries (The Truth About Lord Stoneville) and many others who like their romance touched with the atmosphere and customs of a bygone era.
Western and country romance is also strong, with many adherents. Although True Blood (Charlaine Harris) is thought of as paranormal romance, it is also set in a small town in Louisiana. Those who like to read about heroic, passionate cowboys should consider Kerry A. Jones (Loved Enough), Leigh Greenwood (A Texan’s Honor) and Lorelei James (Branded As Trouble).
Story lines reflect attitudes women can identify with, regardless of the settings. For instance, Lora Leigh, in Nauti Deceptions, writes about an attractive female teacher who changes her identity after being framed and involved in a sex scandal in a small town in Kentucky.
In Dark Slayer, by Christine Feehan, Ivory is a rarity, a Carpathian female who has been protected throughout her life but circumstances compel her to free a ‘mage’ from a cave that serves as a prison and to flee with him.
The leading characters in modern romance stories have feelings and emotions that build to moments of intense passion and the plots may be clearly erotic. The heroines in these stories (despite their settings) are not the delicate, restrained women to be found in Jane Austen novels. They often face danger with courage and embrace romance with an eagerness that earlier generations could only dream of.
Those who are looking for the romantic and social subtleties of an earlier age might well be advised to seek out the writings of Jane Austen and the Bronte sisters. However, for those who prefer their romantic fantasies to be more akin to hot and sweaty, modern romance writers serve them well.
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A Fool’s Knot is Philip Spires’s second African novel set in Kenya and is published by Libros International.
A Fool’s Knot is set in mid-1970s Kenya and deals with different events in the lives of the same set of vivid characters in Mission, Philip Spires’s first novel. The plot is loosely based on a crime that happened on the very weekend the author started working in Migwani’s secondary school in 1974.
A Fool’s Knot is a sensitive portrait of John Mwangangi’s attempt to reclaim his cultural identity and, at the same time, stimulate change. The contradictions he confronts in his campaign against the grinding poverty of his people lead almost inevitably to conflict. Here is the book’s first chapter.
CHAPTER ONE
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England is smaller now. The sky is smaller. Daylight is softer, paler than memories of the harsh brilliance of tropical sun. There are people everywhere: there is no space here. There are no mountains, no heavy clouds, flat-bottomed in the sky and stretching to the horizon as if floating on the surface of a lake covering the earth. There is no distance here. The horizon is near and the sun does not shine.
A tremble of regret, an emptiness born of shock, passed through Janet’s body. Her eyes stared blankly as mile after predictable mile passed by unnoticed. She was glad to be home again, but this happiness could not override the sadness she felt at leaving the place where she had lived so happily for two years. Though Migwani already felt a long way distant, it had perhaps felt more of a home than any other place that bore the name. Already it had become no more than a phase in her life, transformed by the hours of flight into a memory, outlived and outmoded. It was over and finished forever. How long will it be, she thought, as the drumming of the road filled her mother’s car, before I begin to live facing forwards instead of looking back to a destroyed past? How long before it is really over?
She looked down at the seat beside her on which rested the jumble of a parcel she had made up so carefully the previous morning. Protruding from beneath the string-tied newspaper wrapping, which had been torn during her long wait in queues after disembarking in London, was a strange array of barbed arrowheads, polished cow horns and the three unvarnished legs of a stool. Tied to one leg, and now swinging over the edge of the seat was a small gourd, a simple treasure, which meant more than all the other souvenirs and all the photographs with which she had returned. Of all the things she had brought home, this was the strongest reminder of everyday life in Migwani, an exact replica of those used in every household for carrying and storing water. She would polish it and use it as a vase for dried flowers. But protruding above and below the other trinkets and artefacts was the crudely fashioned but beautiful walking stick that had been Munyolo’s personal present for her. Surely this was something to treasure.
Her eyes were heavy with sleep. For two days life had been hectic. It seemed that time had passed too quickly to be noticed, like an immense dream half-remembered between two clear memories. One was the joy she felt when she knew that John had accepted her invitation to come to the farewell party in the school. The other, from only an hour before, was the tearfully overjoyed embrace of her mother at the airport. She looked older, Janet thought. David Smythe, the neighbour and childhood friend, who had offered to drive her mother’s car to the airport, had also changed, not that she had seen much of him in recent years. He remained the slightly overweight, goofy lad, who still lived with his parents over the road. But her mother’s letters had referred at length to the help he had offered and the jobs he did for her. At least he was honest. He was both fatter and frailer than before. Both seemed to speak more slowly than she remembered. Was it really them? Had she really travelled those thousands of miles to return home with the feeling that she had never been away? She was not convinced – of anything, but there were truths that could not be ignored, truths locked into the trivialities of life, the very details of which, when remembered, make even dreams feel real. She had just come from the airport where her mother had greeted her arrival with such long warm embraces. She had felt great surprise when the car park attendant spoke to her in Swahili. Janet had insisted on paying the fee with the English coins she had faithfully kept for two years in a small box on her bedside table. Mistakenly she had included a Kenya shilling with them and the attendant, an Asian, handed it back saying, “Habari ya Kenya?” with a broad smile on his face. “Fine,” Janet had replied taking the coin. The event itself had been bland enough, but the real awakening for Janet was how strange the Swahili sounded. It was ‘foreign’, no longer what she expected to hear. And how difficult it had been for her to answer in kind. She had sought the word but not found it; only ‘fine’ would come. Already a black face seemed a point of interest, an unexpected sight to be noticed and noted as different. Her suburban roots were already showing through.
There were things she would have to re-learn. She was sure of that. How long would it take? she wondered, thinking back to the hostess on the aircraft. A girl her own age, but Scottish and blonde, had set about her duties immediately the plane took off from Nairobi with a forthright confidence and clarity of purpose unknown to Migwani’s lazy, timeless ways. Janet had been lucky to get a seat by a hatchway, where there was no seat in front and therefore no problem in setting down her large bulky parcel. Carrying an armful of trays to clip onto the aircraft seats, the hostess had approached Janet’s aisle seat. She spoke with predictable politeness which, after another language’s commands, seemed overstated. “Would you like a tray, Madam?” the hostess had said. Janet, lost in her thoughts for a moment, had naively answered, “No, thank you,” causing the girl’s consciously pleasant expression to harden slightly through the words, “But you’re going to have something to eat.” With the tray safely clipped on Janet’s seat the hostess moved on to the man sitting next to her. Of course, Janet thought, it was not meant to be a question. Had the girl said simply, “Take your tray,” and moved on, Janet would have understood, but another person, more used to ‘normal’ behaviour might have been offended.
But still the regret produced its confusion. As the car travelled south, town and country passed by outside, but inside a single picture lodged behind Janet’s eyes and, try as she might, she could think of nothing else. In that picture, a collage of many scenes, two leafless trees stood out against a cloudless blue sky. Beneath one of the trees sat a group of women dressed in brightly coloured clothes, many of them wearing cardigans, though the sun was high and the day was hot. Spread out before them, on sacks laid down to cover the hard red earth, were neat piles of fruit, mangoes, green oranges and lemons, guavas and unripe tomatoes. Under the other tree sat a man, a shoemaker, surrounded by the sandals he had made that day from the tread and rubber of old car tyres. Nearby, undisturbed in his usual place, the town’s madman, Munyasya, lay asleep, his spidery legs almost merging with the tree roots. The sun was hot, but in an instant the picture was sour, grey and cold. The shoemaker’s tools lay on the ground beside him and his face was buried deep in his hands. The women, usually noisy, chattering or singing, were quiet and some were weeping.
How long, thought Janet, before I forget?
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Father Michael pressed his foot hard on the accelerator. The sun was already low in the sky. He had an appointment with the Chief in Migwani that evening and there was still over sixty miles to travel. As usual, he had overslept. He always overslept in Nairobi. The beds in the Mission Centre were just too comfortable to resist. After weeks of discomfort caused by the springless wonder he called his ‘unmade pit’ in Migwani, the soft mattress and clean sheets at the Centre were irresistible. Add to that the likelihood that, for him, waking up usually meant waking up with a hangover, and the picture grows clearer. Nairobi was a place he both loved and hated. The hot and cold running water, the comfort of the Centre, the cinemas, the visits to friends and the occasional booze-up he enjoyed. On the other hand there were errands to be run, things to be bought, messages to be given and always too little time in which to do everything. He would never finish all of his jobs around town, but equally would never sacrifice a party or a long sleep to make more time. By the end of the second day he was always glad to be leaving it all behind. The worst part of every trip to the city, though, was this, the journey home. The road was a hundred dusty miles. When driving into town, one could look forward to the last few miles on smooth tarmac, with its promise of a hot shower in the Centre at the end of it all. But when going home there was only the prospect of a bucket of cold water and the creaking frame of the unmade pit.
Michael had something of a reputation. He was aware of it and often played to his gallery, sometimes consciously. His fellow priests and parishioners alike saw him as something of an eccentric. He was perhaps just too vivid a character, too willing to accept a life of contradictions. Dedicated he certainly was, but ephemeral too. Wherever he worked, his positive influence could be traced right through the community he served. In Migwani, where he had been parish priest for more than five years, he had helped to establish a secondary school, three primary schools, adult literacy schemes and last, but certainly not least, a town football team called the Black Stars, in whose ranks Michael’s white face invariably figured. Above all else he was a man of the people, a man positively loved by many. Not only was he a priest and a fluent speaker of Kikamba, the local language, but also a man who could talk about and understand the problems that beset the lives of ordinary people. Some individuals, however, regarded him with distaste. They would openly criticise him for drinking in bars, going to dances in the Unity Club and, above all, for doing ‘the bump’ with bar maids at those same dances. He drank too much, smoked too much, swore too much and probably worked too much. But his achievements were impossible to ignore and everyone agreed with that.
He was equally proud of his fame and his infamy. A tale he loved to tell which summed up his attitude was the one that he had retold to Janet the previous night, just before taking her to the airport. One day, he told her, he was driving to Kitui to play football. Since, as usual, he was late, he was in a hurry and driving too fast to remember that he was approaching a stony part of the road. The car hit the stones at speed and one of the tyres simply disintegrated, with the result that the car slid to a halt amid clouds of dust and grit. The jack, of course, was at home in the mission. He couldn’t recall why he had taken it out of the car. Some ten minutes later, while he was fruitlessly trying to lift one side of the car in order to push a large stone under the jack point with his foot, a group of men came walking along the road and he beckoned to them for help. The men, however, simply stood and stared in disbelief at this mzungu, this European, clad in football kit and bush hat, who was trying to lift a car. Frustrated, Michael had then shouted in his broad Limerick tones, “You silly buggers, will you come and help me change this fucking wheel?” “Ah, Father Michael,” replied one of the men. “We didn’t realise it was you.”
The previous evening that particular story had helped to clear the air, but only a little. He had planned to take Janet into Nairobi for one last night on the town before she flew back to England. In Nairobi they could do as they wished without worrying whether the Bishop of Kitui or people might begin to gossip. Michael had it all worked out. They would arrive in the afternoon, leaving time for a wash and a rest before a Chinese meal on Government Road, followed by an hour or so at the Swiss Grill, where they would have a dance or two. Janet’s flight was not due to leave until half past midnight, so they would easily manage both venues before her check-in time.
What was to have been a great night out in fact deteriorated into a mere sad farewell over a beer in the airport lounge, where the fluorescent lights, if not flickering on faulty starters, made everyone look gaunt and ill. The best-laid plans can go astray, so it would probably be no surprise that Father Michael’s tenuous idea turned out to be a non-starter. But on this occasion the failure was not his. He would still have liked his night out, but the events of that morning had overtaken them both. Janet, upset and close to tears throughout, had laughed a little at his story, but it was no more than a single moment to be weighed against the rest of the day, when sadness, tragedy and disillusion pervaded all.
The car rattled and bumped along the dirt road as Migwani’s spectacular mountain backbone appeared through the gathering twilight. The long journey was almost over. A hundred miles was perhaps no distance at all, but on these roads you allowed four hours and the punctures often made it longer. He had been lucky today, unlike one occasion, when he had fixed no less than thirteen punctures of his tubed tyres and taken more than eight hours to do the trip. But still his repertoire of songs that he invariably sang as he drove was almost exhausted. Some minutes later, with darkness beginning to fall and headlights carving into the gloom, the car sped over the last ridge and the single light of Migwani after dark came into view. Michael sang a celebratory chorus of ‘We’re here because we’re here’, but at the end of this particular trip the words were tinged not just with resignation, but also with defiance and unease. Like a moth to a flame, the car left the road and careered down the small track that led towards the light of the mission house, his home. Mutua, the cook, who had been waiting for Father Michael’s return, peered out of the kitchen window and waved as the car drew up by the back door.
When Michael entered the house, he was greeted not only by Mutua, but by two others, both not quite strangers. As Mutua pumped the pressure lamp that provided the only light in the room, he spoke to Michael in Kikamba. “These men have been waiting for you,” he said.
Michael had expected to see the Chief of Migwani Location and it was he who first shook Michael’s hand. Then, in English, he said, “May I introduce you to Bwana Joseph Kamau, who is the Chief Police Officer in Kitui town.”
The second man then came forward and offered a handshake. “I am pleased to meet you, Father Michael. Thank you for volunteering to come back from Nairobi this evening. It is best that we discuss these pressing matters today.”
Father Michael sat down opposite the two men. In the years since his ordination as a missionary priest, he had experienced famine, disease and war. He had stalked death and it had lived alongside him. But throughout those years, he could recall no tragedy as sad as this.
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Michael, a missionary priest, has just killed Munyasya. It was an accident, but Mulonzya, a politician, exploits the tragedy for his own ends. Boniface, a church worker, has just lost his child. He did not make it to the hospital in time, possibly because Michael went to the Mission to retrieve a letter from Janet, a teacher, and the priest’s neighbour. It is Munyasya who has the last laugh, however.
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Wash your hands and put your lab coat on. Today’s experiment: Outsourcing an income tax return.
Outsourcing was presented to me as a cost savings alternative: wages in India are comparatively low to wages in the U.S. So, I’ve tried outsourcing with QuickBooks accounting and I’ve been pleased. Cost savings do result.
But what I discovered is that I am also saving time. And I have even less time than I do money (as for lack of money, I think that has something to do with having two teenagers and an eleven year old…)
And I can use more time very productively: marketing, meeting with my best clients, staff training, going to the beach more often, etc.
But outsourcing tax returns? Thinking out loud, it would seem that outsourcing tax returns would produce efficiency by separating data management (1099’s, K-1’s, organizers) from data input (I’ll be using Lacerte in our experiment) from providing a great service and doing great work (what CPA’s do).
So, here we go! I started with outsourcing first. My client’s tax return is on extension. He does a great job of completing his organizer. And he gives me all of his 1099’s and K-1’s and so on. His tax return is average in terms of complexity, and average in terms of how long it should take to do. He pays us ,000 for his tax return.
I first electronically sent my client’s 2005 data file to the Chartered Accountant in India, so she could start from where I’m starting from.
Next, I organized my client’s input (1099’s, K-1’s etc.) in the same order as these items appear on his organizer.
Third step: I scanned all of the source documents and the organizer, and I electronically transmitted same to the Chartered Accountant. COMMENT: If we go to outsourcing, I will have my clerical staff do the scanning part…they are faster than me.
Well, that was easy…33 minutes.
So now on to doing this tax return myself. First, some background: My CPA firm is small: Four CPAs, one entry level staff, and two clerical team members. Thus, the partners do a lot of their tax returns themselves.
First, I have one of the clerical team members copy the source documents. They come back in no particular order. This took my lab assistant 6 minutes.
Then, since I’m doing this tax return myself, I follow the firm’s protocol, starting with the indexing of all source documents and the organizer. We use letters (A to Z).
I first index the lower right hand corner of the organizer in red from page one (“C1”) to the last page (“C22”).
Next, I index each source document in the lower right hand corner in red, in order similar to where items appear on the organizer for example, “D1” through “D8” for 1099-Int’s and 1099-Div’s, “G1” through “G6” for my client’s K-1’s, “L1” through “L7” for itemized deductions, and so on.
I then reference the source number to the particular organizer page, in red. For example, for interest income of from Wells Fargo, I put a “C9” (the organizer page) to the right of the , and on the organizer I put a “D2” to the left of the (the place the number came from).
After all indexing is done, I do control totals on appropriate organizer pages. For example, for interest income, for dividend income, for home mortgage interest, etc.
COMMENT: This is slow. And my client actually filled out his organizer. One-half of the clients don’t. I can’t believe the staff does this during tax season. No wonder everybody gets so grumpy…
COMMENT: Why can’t we at least index the organizer pages (“C1” through “C22”) in red in the lower right hand corner BEFORE tax season, like in early January, BEFORE we mail the organizers to the clients. The clerical team members could do this. Or better yet my 2 teenagers and my 11 year old and other team members’ children. This would save so much time during tax season.
COMMENT: I was slowest on the K-1’s. One K-1, from a trust, had as attachments the 7 partnership K-1’s that flowed into the trust. My “G3” exhibit was 47 pages (“G3.1” to “G3.47”). I had to re-sharpen my red pencil. Way too slow…
FURTHER COMMENT: We should stop indexing K-1’s: too many pages. Consider side tabs with the K-1’s going in the file in order of organizer appearance with a bottom “K-1’s” tab.
COMMENT: I thought the firm listed “going paperless” as its number one priority by 2008 year end…I think the Chicago Cubs will win the World Series before we achieve paperless-ness.
COMMENT: I can’t believe partners here actually do quite a bit of this.
COMMENT: I indexed a lot of immaterial numbers. Witness the of interest income from Wells Fargo. Consider setting materiality limit, where all we do is make sure the number gets on the organizer.
COMMENT: I may be getting delirious. Does the client see any value to such amazing precision and attention to detail? I doubt it: the client just wants to feel like they are my favorite client. And I haven’t ever gotten to the data input yet. No wonder good staff are getting harder to find. I’m actually starting to think about converting to Ron Baker’s accounting religion. I think I see Rod Serling hiding behind the fake plant in the corner…c’mon man, get a grip on yourself.
Okay, okay, I’m coming back to reality. Subtracting 3 minutes for my brief departure into the Twilight Zone all that took 57 minutes.
Next, I input all data into Lacerte. I’m not the slowest one here…the two youngest staff are the fastest, but I think I take 3rd place.
COMMENT: I can’t believe partners here actually do quite a bit of this as well. I spoke with another CPA who once told me he does all of his own input because he’s just as fast as junior staff and clerical staff. When I inquired about billing rates, the response was: he’s at 0/hour, junior staff are at 5 and 0 respectively, and clerical staff is at /hour. If you don’t get my point here, please stop reading this right now….
Anyhow, that took 52 minutes, with no time off for a reality departure.
COMMENT: So where’s my tax return from India? I’ve been at this now for 2 hours…how slow can these people be?
COMMENT: The last comment is a joke. I’m just killing time while I’m waiting for the printer to finish. The outsourcing company told me the tax return would be back in 4 days. (My firm’s average turnaround time approximates 15 days…could outsourcing actually lead to better service?)
The printer stops. I grab the tax return. I copy the summary pages for federal and California (which I index “A1” and “A2”) and I reference all of the line totals to and from the organizer pages on which my calculated totals appear.
I’m off on dividend income. I discover one input item where I inputted 2 as 8. I fix this. I compare it to the year-end tax projection I did in December.
All of this takes 16 minutes. Then the tax return goes to another team member for review: he spends 18 minutes. So that’s 34 minutes of review.
In summary, we spent:
1. Clerical staff time copying 6 minutes
2. My time on data management 57 minutes
3. My time on data input 52 minutes
4. My time on review 16 minutes
5. Review time on review 18 minutes
Total 149 minutes
That’s 2 ½ hours. At this point, there should be no difference in subsequent time compared to outsourcing: the tax return gets assembled, a partner signs it, we send it to the client.
Three days later, I get the electronic tax files back from India, which include the organizer with control totals on it. I’ve saved my scan of the input data for reference.
I reference organizer totals to tax return (no, I’m not going to look at the tax return that I’ve prepared yet…I’m a scientist, not an accountant). I take the extra step of reviewing my scanned files, and comparing totals that I add manually to the tax return totals. I do interest income, dividend income, and home mortgage interest and charitable contributions. Bingo!
COMMENT: I need to upgrade to dual screens. That will make review faster.
Total time: 25 minutes. Not too bad. Next, before final review, I take a deep breath, and (drum roll please…) grab the tax return that I prepared. I start hyperventilating. I am not tracking my time on this (the hyperventilation or the tax return comparison, because this step would not happen if we outsource tax returns.)
COMMENT: Maybe I should just file the tax return with the lower balance due. Maybe we should do all tax returns twice, and pick the better one.
COMMENT: The last comment is a joke. Really IRS – I’m just joking.
Anyhow, I put the tax returns side by side, and (oh, wait a minute, I have to use the restroom…and, I forgot to call my wife back…I’ll hurry, I promise…do you watch “Deal or No Deal” too?…)…and, and, and… taxable income and refund are the same!!!
Lastly, onto review. I pick another team member for the review: 21 minutes.
COMMENT: Hey the other guy took only 18 minutes…what gives???
Here is the outsourcing summary:
1. I scan and transmit data 33 minutes
2. My time on review 25 minutes
3. Reviewer (the slow one…) time on review 21 minutes
Total 79 minutes
That’s just over 50% of the firm prepared time (149 minutes)!!
COMMENT: And I went from 125 minutes down to 58 minutes, and if I use clerical staff to scan, I’m down to 25 minutes…plus they scan faster than I do…wow!
COMMENT: The areas where I will spend more time if I outsource are on data organization and review, in particular on spending time on the scanned files as “input.” But significant time savings do indeed get created by reducing data management and data input applications. The outsourcing hypothesis is correct.
By the way, the Chartered Accountant in India spent just over 4 hours on this project.
I promised I wouldn’t disclose my team members hourly pay rates, which are too high (just kidding…) but the outsourcer says their tax return rate is /hour. So yes, a cost savings also results, but I’ll take the extra time please.
Thank you for participating in my outsourcing experiment. Don’t forget to join me for next week’s experiment: trying to get an actuary to laugh.
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Comic-Con was packed again this year. Last year attendance was announced at about 125,000 people. The only day that wasn’t sold out in 2007 was Thursday. This year every day of the event sold out. The kick-off was preview night on the 23rd. Usually, there is no programming on Preview night and it is pretty easy to wander around the convention floor. Not this year: Fox ran a preview of the new J. J. Abrams show “Fringe” on Preview night and the convention floor was packed.
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It is easier to navigate certain areas of the convention floor. The areas with vendors truly selling things aren’t as continually crowded. You can walk around without bumping into quite as many people. The areas by the comic companies are busier, but not too congested. Though, if a hot writer or artist is signing his/her books, it can get pretty busy. The areas around the television networks and the movie studios are always busy. People are looking for the freebies, especially those from popular shows and upcoming films. The area around Twilight was filled with younger girls and the area around Warner Brothers (WB) was packed with people looking for t-shirts, autographs, and other giveaways.
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