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CMA post

26 September 2007 (Wednesday) 6:46 PM by giovanna

I realized that studying for the CMA would entail lots of notes and scribbling on small pieces of paper so why not use my blog as a platform for my studying? I figured that sharing my notes in my blog would provide me with the sort of technological and social experience that could enrich me. So we will see….

I am studying for the CMA to fill what I perceive as a knowledge gap in budgeting and cost accounting.

I’m currently studying for section 2 of the CMA: Management Accounting and Reporting. I’m using Gleim’s CMA Review. For those who are not very familiar with Gleim, these are really great books!

I’m also part of the IMA tribe (IMA stands for Institute of Management Accountants). Check this out:

http://www.imanet.org/

If you, yes you… are studying the CMA, you are in the right place or so I hope. Happy studying!

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What is this SQL?

25 September 2007 (Tuesday) 7:45 PM by giovanna

To learn SQL, I bought a book called “SQL in 24 hours”, It is a nice little book that attempts to teach this language’s rudiments to “the rest of us”.

So what is this SQL? SQL is the language that allow us to communicate with a relational database. There are different “dialects” that originated or evolved from this language depending on the implementation. Some of them are Oracle SQL, SAP, PostgresSQL, MySQL.

I will be mastering MySQL since my very nice boyfriend downloaded and installed this application on my computer. For those people that are wondering why I’m using MySQL and not let’s say Oracle? The answer is MySQL is free!

By the way I did forget to say that I will focus my learning of SQL around accounting. I personally think that learning the language of database helps my job or at least makes my life a little bit easier. I cannot imagine doing what i do without MS Access.

Tomorrow, I will start my first lesson on MySQL… exciting, huh?

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SQL adventure

24 September 2007 (Monday) 6:56 PM by giovanna

I don’t think I ever liked going to “technology classes”. I remember skipping them with flair, thinking they were just a waste of time. Suddenly after my first job when spreadsheets became my daily bread and butter I started a metamorphosis. I became an Excel fanatic!

My current job has refined that interest and now I have replaced the love for spreadsheets with that of databases. I have mastered a few things in MS Access and now….yes..I’m ready to sail away from MS Access and visit other ports. What I’m actually talking about is that I’m going to learn SQL and I’m going to use this blog to document that process. I think it is going to be fun…and useful and possibly inspiring for other people.

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Work in Progress

26 July 2007 (Thursday) 6:29 PM by giovanna

Hi, I’m working on my web page right now, just come back later for updates and news.

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