What are the OHS obligations a non-profit has in respect to its volunteers? An overview of the challenges and opportunities.
Continue readingSafety, the Volunteer, and the Accountant
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Category Archives: Accounting/Finance
Tagging and Bagging on Mount OBI
Users think of an Oracle Business Intelligence (OBI) Dashboard as a single entity. OBI uses an ‘a la carte’ method in which ‘Objects’ can be assembled and re-used across multiple Dashboard. This Modular approach drives the need for an effective inventory system.
Death of Mount OBI
A blog with a short life span as Oracle Business Intelligence (OBI) will be de-supported in 2025. Introduces key concepts used in the Mount OBI blog series.
AGOV Talks About Summiting Mount OBI
Previous blogs introduced the technology and processes to climb the metaphoric Mount OBI. Communications was alluded to but more fully discussed in this blog as well as the various passes AGOV engaged in to reduce its OBI footprint by two-thirds.
Continue readingMeasuring Mount OBI
Three metrics help to assess the value of an OBI-Object: quantitative, qualitative, and the ‘So-What’ question. These are supplemented by the overall ‘game-rules’.
Continue readingPreparing to Climb Mount OBI
In the previous blog, Mount OBI was introduced as well as AGOV. Both are metaphoric. The mountain represents how organizations can accumulate reporting assets.
Continue readingIntroducing Mount OBI
Managing a fleet of ‘reports’ is the bane of any organization. This is the story of how the fictional organization, AGOV, managed to eliminate two-thirds of its inventory prior to an upgrade.
Multi-Factor Success Matrix
Is the system live, is it stable? What are the risk areas of the new system? When will it be working properly? Dreaded questions when managing complex systems. A multi-factor success matrix can help an organization visualize key elements of a system and make informed decisions… or perhaps just answer the question, have we gone live yet?
CPA Achievement Award – 2022
For the fourth year, I have been a member of Alberta Chartered Professional Accountants (CPA) achievement awards review committee.
SAMI Financial Literacy Goals
Most people have heard of the marshmallow test. Ask a young child if they want one marshmallow now or two in a short while. The test was designed and originally delivered in the late 1960’s and early 1970’s, it showed a correlation between a young child’s ability to delay gratification and their future success [1].
Organizational Biology 