Home Page of Mountain Man Bob Jensen (From the White Mountains of New Hampshire)

This Website is featured as a sharing and helper site in The Chronicle of Higher Education, August 14, 1998, Page A25
I've been trying to help others for many years.

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Bob Jensen's email address rjensen@trinity.edu

Click here to search Bob Jensen's web site if you have key words to enter --- Search Box in Upper Right Corner.
For example if you want to know what Jensen documents have the term "Enron" enter the phrase Jensen AND Enron. Another search engine that covers Trinity and other universities is at http://www.searchedu.com/

On May 14, 2006 I retired from Trinity University after a long and wonderful career as an accounting professor in four universities. I was generously granted "Emeritus" status by the Trustees of Trinity University. My wife and I now live in a cottage in the White Mountains of New Hampshire ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/NHcottage/NHcottage.htm

My Outstanding Educator Award Speech ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/AAAaward_files/AAAaward02.htm

Some of Bob Jensen's Pictures and Stories
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Pictures.htm

At the start of an exam, a student openly wondered, "But Professor Einstein, this is the same exam question as last year!" To which the great man supposedly replied, "Correct, young man, but we need to find new answers."
Werner Reinartz --- http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2013/03/measuring_creativity_we_have_t.html

Keywords and Topics of This Document
Bob Jensen, Bob Jensen's, Robert E. Jensen, Erika Jensen, Accounting Theory and Research, Information Systems, Web Publishing, Databases,Technology in Education Books and Shows, Asymetrix ToolBook, Microsoft Access, FrontPage, HotMetalPro, Web Publishing, Glossaries, and Shareware Course Materials, Multimedia Authoring, Business Education, Accounting Education, Network Databases, Distributed Computing, Financial Instruments Derivatives, SFAS 133, Accounting Information Systems, Accounting Theory, Networked Databases, Glossaries, and Other Helpers.

Bob Jensen's Technologies in Education Workshops Have Been
Presented at Over 350 Colleges and Universities

Click here to search this Website if you have key words to enter --- Search Site.
This search engine may get you some hits from other professors at Trinity University included with Bob Jensen's documents, but this may be to your benefit.

Bob Jensen's Threads --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/threads.htm

Bob Jensen's Blogs --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/JensenBlogs.htm
Current and past editions of my newsletter called New Bookmarks --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/bookurl.htm
Current and past editions of my newsletter called Tidbits --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/TidbitsDirectory.htm
Current and past editions of my newsletter called Fraud Updates --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/FraudUpdates.htm
Bob Jensen's past presentations and lectures --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/resume.htm#Presentations 

One of the most popular Excel spreadsheets that Bob Jensen ever provided to his students ---
www.cs.trinity.edu/~rjensen/Excel/wtdcase2a.xls

My Political Quotations and Commentaries Directory and Log ---
http://www.cs.trinity.edu/~rjensen/temp/Political/PoliticalQuotationsCommentaries.htm

CNBC Explains Accounting --- http://www.cnbc.com/id/100000341

Bob Jensen's threads on accounting theory

• Part 1 --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Theory01.htm
   
• Part 2 --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Theory02.htm

Bob Jensen is in the Department of Business Administration at Trinity University.
Email: rjensen@trinity.edu

Bob Jensen's Codec Saga: How I Lost a Big Part of My Life's Work
Until My Friend Rick Lillie Solved My Problem
http://www.cs.trinity.edu/~rjensen/video/VideoCodecProblems.htm

A Special Tribute to My Open Sharing Friend Will Yancey ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Yancey.htm

Daily News Sites for Accountancy, Tax, Fraud, IFRS, XBRL, Accounting History, and More ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/AccountingNews.htm

Giving Stuff Away Free on the Internet ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/ListservRoles.htm#Free 

Free Online Textbooks, Videos, and Tutorials --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/ElectronicLiterature.htm#Textbooks
Free Tutorials in Various Disciplines --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Bookbob2.htm#Tutorials
Edutainment and Learning Games --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/thetools.htm#Edutainment
Open Sharing Courses --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/updateee.htm#OKI

Thank You America --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/music.htm#Inspirational

Bob Jensen's Threads --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/threads.htm

Potential Roles of ListServs and Blogs
Getting More Than We Give --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/ListServRoles.htm

Peter, Paul, and Barney: An Essay on 2008 U.S. Government Bailouts of Private Companies ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/2008Bailout.htm

White Mountain News --- http://www.whitemtnews.com/

Find a College
College Atlas --- http://www.collegeatlas.org/
Among other things the above site provides acceptance rate percentages
Online Distance Education Training and Education --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Crossborder.htm
For-Profit Universities Operating in the Gray Zone of Fraud  (College, Inc.) --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/HigherEdControversies.htm#ForProfitFraud

Bob Jensen's universal health care messaging --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Health.htm

Daily News Sites for Accountancy, Tax, Fraud, IFRS, XBRL, Accounting History, and More ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/AccountingNews.htm

Bob Jensen's threads on accounting novels, plays, and movies ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/AccountingNovels.htm

Find a College
College Atlas --- http://www.collegeatlas.org/
Among other things the above site provides acceptance rate percentages
Online Distance Education Training and Education --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Crossborder.htm
For-Profit Universities Operating in the Gray Zone of Fraud  (College, Inc.) --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/HigherEdControversies.htm#ForProfitFraud

574 Shields Against Validity Challenges in Plato's Cave---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/TheoryTAR.htm

How Accountics Scientists Should Change: 
"Frankly, Scarlett, after I get a hit for my resume in The Accounting Review I just don't give a damn"
http://www.cs.trinity.edu/~rjensen/temp/AccounticsDamn.htm
One more mission in what's left of my life will be to try to change this
http://www.cs.trinity.edu/~rjensen/temp/AccounticsDamn.htm

"How Non-Scientific Granulation Can Improve Scientific Accountics"
http://www.cs.trinity.edu/~rjensen/temp/AccounticsGranulationCurrentDraft.pdf

574 Shields Against Validity Challenges in Plato's Cave --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/TheoryTAR.htm
By Bob Jensen

Table of Contents

• Tom Lehrer on Mathematical Models and Statistics 
• TAR versus AMR
• Introduction to Replication Commentaries
• TAR Versus JEC
• Accounting Research Versus Social Science Research
• Mathematical Analytics in Plato's Cave TAR Researchers Playing by Themselves in an Isolated Dark Cave That the Sunlight Cannot Reach
• High Hopes Dashed for a Change in Policy of TAR Regarding Commentaries on Previously Published Research
• Rejoinder from the Current Senior Editor of TAR, Steven J. Kachelmeier
• Conclusion and Recommendation for a Journal Named Supplemental Commentaries and Replication Abstracts
• Appendix 1: Business Firms and Business School Teachers Largely Ignore TAR Research Articles
• Appendix 2: Integrating Academic Research Into Undergraduate Accounting Courses
• Appendix 3: Audit Pricing in the Real World
• Appendix 4: Replies from Jagdish Gangolly and Paul Williams

What went wrong in accounting/accountics research?  ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/theory01.htm#WhatWentWrong

The Sad State of Accountancy Doctoral Programs That Do Not Appeal to Most Accountants ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/theory01.htm#DoctoralPrograms

AN ANALYSIS OF THE EVOLUTION OF RESEARCH CONTRIBUTIONS BY THE ACCOUNTING REVIEW: 1926-2005 ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/395wpTAR/Web/TAR395wp.htm#_msocom_1

Bob Jensen's threads on accounting theory ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/theory01.htm

Tom Lehrer on Mathematical Models and Statistics ---
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfZWyUXn3So

Systemic problems of accountancy (especially the vegetable nutrition paradox) that probably will never be solved ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/FraudConclusion.htm#BadNews

For earlier editions of Tidbits go to http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/TidbitsDirectory.htm
For earlier editions of New Bookmarks go to http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/bookurl.htm 

Click here to search Bob Jensen's web site if you have key words to enter --- Search Site.
For example if you want to know what Jensen documents have the term "Enron" enter the phrase Jensen AND Enron. Another search engine that covers Trinity and other universities is at http://www.searchedu.com/.

For earlier editions of Tidbits go to http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/TidbitsDirectory.htm
For earlier editions of New Bookmarks go to http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/bookurl.htm 

Click here to search Bob Jensen's web site if you have key words to enter --- Search Site.
For example if you want to know what Jensen documents have the term "Enron" enter the phrase Jensen AND Enron. Another search engine that covers Trinity and other universities is at http://www.searchedu.com/.

Modern Science and Ancient Wisdom  --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/theory01.htm#AncientWisdom

"A Wisdom 101 Course!" February 15, 2010 ---
http://www.simoleonsense.com/a-wisdom-101-course/

"Overview of Prior Research on Wisdom," Simoleon Sense, February 15, 2010 ---
http://www.simoleonsense.com/overview-of-prior-research-on-wisdom/

"An Overview Of The Psychology Of Wisdom," Simoleon Sense, February 15, 2010 ---
http://www.simoleonsense.com/an-overview-of-the-psychology-of-wisdom/

"Why Bayesian Rationality Is Empty, Perfect Rationality Doesn’t Exist, Ecological Rationality Is Too Simple, and Critical Rationality Does the Job,"
Simoleon Sense, February 15, 2010 --- Click Here
http://www.simoleonsense.com/why-bayesian-rationality-is-empty-perfect-rationality-doesn%e2%80%99t-exist-ecological-rationality-is-too-simple-and-critical-rationality-does-the-job/

Great Minds in Management:  The Process of Theory Development --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen//theory/00overview/GreatMinds.htm

Great Minds in Sociology ---
http://www.sociosite.net/topics/sociologists.php
Also see Also see http://www.sociologyprofessor.com/ 

Bob Jensen's threads on theory and research ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/theory01.htm

 

I see from my house by the side of the road

By the side of the highway of life,

The men who press with the ardor of hope,

The men who are faint with the strife,

But I turn not away from their smiles and tears,

Both parts of an infinite plan-

Let me live in a house by the side of the road

And be a friend to man.
Sam Walter Foss (1858-1911)

For earlier editions of Tidbits go to http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/tidbitsdirectory.htm

For earlier editions of New Bookmarks go to http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/bookurl.htm 

My Life Beyond the Numbers by James Don Edwards

On June 14, 2010 (today) I opened an unexpected package from James Don Edwards that totally surprised me.
The book inside the package was entitled My Life Beyond the Numbers (ISBN 978-0-615-36164-2, March 2010)

James Don is the best "boss" I ever had --- while I was a newly minted assistant professor at Michigan State University. In spite of my youth and inexperience he gave me two doctoral seminars to teach, possibly because I was an accountics researcher in those days when accountics research was being revived after over 60 years of dormancy. James Don was never an accountics professor, but he anticipated how accountics would become dominant in academic accountancy henceforth and perhaps forever more ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/395wpTAR/Web/TAR395wp.htm

You can read the Hall of Fame entry for James Don Edwards at Click Here
http://fisher.osu.edu/departments/accounting-and-mis/the-accounting-hall-of-fame/membership-in-hall/james-don-edwards/

His many honors and awards include an honorary doctorate from the University of Paris.

In 1998, he was invited to the Georgia House of Representatives to hear a resolution honoring him and recognizing his contributions to the field of accounting and the State of Georgia. The University of Georgia Foundation recently established a Chair of Corporate Accounting Policy in his honor ---
http://www.legis.state.ga.us/legis/1997_98/fulltext/hr738.htm

One of his areas of expertise is the history of the accounting profession in the United States.

I've not yet read his latest book I just received, but I'm looking forward to chapters like "Oxford and Sir Edward Heath."
Don was on a first name basis with some of the most powerful people in the world.
He also served tirelessly for the American Accounting Association, including serving as its President 1970-71.

During a period when the University of Michigan (in the shadows of Bill Paton)  totally dominated Michigan State University in doctoral programs and faculty research in accountancy, James Don raised the money and recruited some the outstanding doctoral students in our history. To name a few who joined the Academy at MSU we have Roger Hermanson, Gene Comiskey, Paul Pacter, Bill Kinney, Bob May, Jim McKeown, Barry Cushing, and others too numerous to mention here. And there were of course other outstanding faculty and doctoral students he recruited for the University of Georgia.

I am proud to consider James Don Edwards one of my very best friends. I wish he and Clara an long and happy life, and I especially wish Clara a total successful recovery from her new total hip. Her lovely picture is on the cover of the book alongside her partner in life. Clara is an original Iron Magnolia.

Some of Bob Jensen's Pictures and Stories
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Pictures.htm

Stories About Growing Up

·         Short story entitled My Glimpse of Heaven:  What I learned from Max and Gwen
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/max01.htm

 

·         Short story entitled Mrs. Applegate's Boarding House (with Navy pictures)
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/tidbits/2007/tidbits070723.htm

 

·         A Year 2000 message of love from my wife, Erika.  
She describes how a Munich street urchin became Cinderella filled with love and joy --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/erika/xmas00.htm 

 

·         A Year 2001 message of love from my wife, Erika 
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/erika/xmas01.htm 

 

• A Special Tribute to My Open Sharing Friend Will Yancey ---
  http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Yancey.htm

 

 

I see from my house by the side of the road

By the side of the highway of life,

The men who press with the ardor of hope,

The men who are faint with the strife,

But I turn not away from their smiles and tears,

Both parts of an infinite plan-

Let me live in a house by the side of the road

And be a friend to man.
Sam Walter Foss (1858-1911)

For earlier editions of Tidbits go to http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/tidbitsdirectory.htm

For earlier editions of New Bookmarks go to http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/bookurl.htm 

The Secret of Why Bob Jensen Became an Accounting Professor and Not a Practicing CPA
Nursing Schools Should Warn Students About Grueling Hours
Nursing schools should do a better job preparing students for the grueling hours, often unrealistic expectations, and lack of respect that await them when they enter the work force, says an article scheduled for publication today in the July/August issue of Nursing Outlook.
MIT's Technology Review, July 27, 2009 --- http://chronicle.com/article/Nursing-Schools-Should-Warn/47468/

Jensen Comment
Although I always mentioned the long hours faced by newly-hired CPAs, especially in tax season, I'm not sure I ever said enough about it to a point that I did not have some (I like to think only a few students) who really became upset over the long hours and pressures in CPA firms. Perhaps this has changed somewhat, but one of the problems that remains is that many newly-hired students have to travel much more than they expected as either CPA auditors or corporate internal  auditors. When out of town there's a tendency to work days and nights, sometimes in an effort to shorten the time on the road away from home.

Truth Time
When I became a CPA and worked for the largest accounting firm in Denver, I was also an avid, and unmarried, snow skier. I was even tempted to become a ski bum except that my entire family history made me fearful of living without income and security. I was also getting an MBA at the University of Denver and watched my professors work what seemed to me like 12 hours a week while living in the security of tenure for life. This seemed perfect for becoming having my ski time and still having guaranteed income for life.

I even came to a point where I had an ink pen poised above a contract at Western State College in Gunnison, Colorado where I could get a tenure track position, in those days, with only a MBA-CPA credential. As I lowered the pen, I casually asked the Dean how far it was from Gunnison to Aspen (which looked to be less than 30 miles on the map). He said it depended upon whether it was summer or winter. The pass was closed in the winter such that the shortest route was over 200 miles by going around through Leadville.

I dropped the pen and decided to accept a full-ride scholarship that Stanford University had offered me a few days earlier to enter the accounting doctoral program. The rest is history. I skied some while at Stanford, but after I got married at the dissertation stage of my studies, I gave up skiing and chasing wild women. More importantly I discovered that being a professional teacher and researcher was more fun and challenging than being a ski bum.

It's probably a very good thing that I gave up being a ski bum. I always tended to be a bit of a hot dog skier who skied one or two notches above my real farm boy ability. Undoubtedly I would be dead or paralyzed if I'd truly become a ski bum.

Interestingly as a professor and even as a retired professor I've worked longer hours year in and year out that most practicing CPAs. But this is a labor of love and a challenge to the mind and great relief from the boredom of leisure time.

About 20 years ago I recorded a sloppy audio file about becoming a professor --- http://www.cs.trinity.edu/~rjensen/academ01.wav

Shared Open Courseware (OCW) from Around the World:
OKI, MIT, Rice, Berkeley, Yale, and Other Sharing Universities ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/updateee.htm#OKI

The Master List of Free Online College Courses --- http://universitiesandcolleges.org/

Free Online Textbooks, Videos, and Tutorials --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/ElectronicLiterature.htm#Textbooks
Free Tutorials in Various Disciplines --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Bookbob2.htm#Tutorials
Edutainment and Learning Games --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/thetools.htm#Edutainment
Open Sharing Courses --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/updateee.htm#OKI
The Master List of Free Online College Courses --- http://universitiesandcolleges.org/

Bob Jensen's threads for online worldwide education and training alternatives ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Crossborder.htm

"U. of Manitoba Researchers Publish Open-Source Handbook on Educational Technology," by Steve Kolowich, Chronicle of Higher Education, March 19, 2009 --- http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/index.php?id=3671&utm_source=wc&utm_medium=en

World Clock and World Facts --- http://www.poodwaddle.com/worldclock.swf

Free Electronic Literature --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/ElectronicLiterature.htm

Online Electronic Book Finders (including audio books for listening)
Online Poem and Poet Finders
Online Journal and Magazine Finders
Online Textbooks and Cases
Online Books and Authors
Online Poems and Poets
Especially for Children
Online Multimedia (Audio and Video) (Including Video and Television Show Dialog)
Online Reviews
Online Links to Quotations

Free and Fee Accounting Software --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Bookbob1.htm#AccountingSoftware  Dictionaries, Acronyms, Abbreviations, Encyclopedias, Anagrams, Entertainment, Humor, and Other References Links to Free Online Video and Music --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/music.htm  Bob Jensen's Helpers for Writers --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/BookBob3.htm#Dictionaries  Bob Jensen's Grammar Helpers --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/BookBob3.htm#Dictionaries  Electronic Reading Devices and the History of Electronic Books --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/ebooks.htm  How to Find Books and Compare Prices --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/searchh.htm#Books 
Bob Jensen's links to art, entertainment, history, and museums --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Bookbob2.htm#History 
Online Training and Education Alternatives --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/CrossBorder.htm 
Bob Jensen's Search Helpers --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/searchh.htm 

Free Music and Video/Movie Links --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/music.htm

Inspirational and Patriotic Music --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/music.htm#Inspirational
Romantic Music --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/music.htm#Romantic
Country and Western --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/music.htm#Country

1950s-60s Juke Box Tunes --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/music.htm#JukeBox
Humor Music --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/music.htm#Humor

Banjo, Fiddle, Bluegrass, and American Folk Music --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/music.htm#AmericanFolk
Foreign Folk Music and Other Music From Foreign Lands --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/music.htm#AmericanFolk

Jazz and Blues --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/music.htm#Classical
Classical Music --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/music.htm#Classical
Punk and Other Rock Music --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/music.htm#Rock
Christmas and Other Seasonal Music --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/music.htm#Holiday

Courses Taught by Bob Jensen at Trinity University

ACCT 5341 Accounting Theory (Click here to view the Syllabus and Helper Links)

ACCT 5342 Accounting Information Systems (Click here to view the Syllabus and Helper Links)

How to report a loss, theft, or crime --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/FraudReporting.htm#ThingsToKnow 

What to do if your purse or wallet is stolen --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/FraudReporting.htm#ThingsToKnow 

How to Obtain a credit report to check on whether someone else has stolen your identity to borrow money? 
 http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/FraudReporting.htm#ThingsToKnow  

Stay Safe Online --- http://www.staysafeonline.info/ 

Also see http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=parental+control+software

How Stuff Works! --- http://www.howstuffworks.com/

How Income Taxes Work (including history) --- http://money.howstuffworks.com/income-tax.htm
IRS --- http://www.irs.gov 
Bob Jensen's tax helpers are at http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/bookbob1.htm#010304Taxation  

How Web Pages Work --- http://computer.howstuffworks.com/web-page3.htm 
How Internet Infrastructure Works --- http://computer.howstuffworks.com/internet-infrastructure.htm 
Stay Safe Online --- http://www.staysafeonline.info/ 
How Internet citations work --- http://www.h-net.org/about/citation/
Long URL's can be shorted by using SnipURL (this is neat) --- http://snipurl.com/index.php    

How Computer Things Work (including buying guides) --- http://computer.howstuffworks.com/ 
Bob Jensen's computing bookmarks --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/bookbob4.htm 

How E-commerce Works --- http://money.howstuffworks.com/ecommerce.htm 
Bob Jensen's threads are at http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/ecommerce.htm 

How government works
FirstGov at http://www.firstgov.com/   
Yahoo Government --- http://dir.yahoo.com/Government/ 
Yahoo Regional --- http://dir.yahoo.com/Regional/ 

How electronic stuff works --- http://electronics.howstuffworks.com/ 

How mortgage stuff works --- http://money.howstuffworks.com/mortgage.htm 
Bob Jensen's helpers for mortgages are at http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/bookbob1.htm#mortgages 

How Buying a Car Works --- http://money.howstuffworks.com/car-buying.htm 
Bob Jensen helpers for buying real estate and vehicles --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/bookbob3.htm#RealEstate 

Beyond Martha Stewart
How home stuff works --- http://home.howstuffworks.com/ 

How health things work --- http://health.howstuffworks.com/ 
How Cholesterol Works --- http://home.howstuffworks.com/cholesterol1.htm 

How travel stuff works --- http://travel.howstuffworks.com/ 
How Frequent Flier Programs Work (or don't work) --- http://money.howstuffworks.com/ff-programs.htm 
Bob Jensen's travel helpers are at http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/bookbob3.htm#Travel 

How Entertainment Stuff Works --- http://entertainment.howstuffworks.com/
Yahoo Entertainment --- http://dir.yahoo.com/Entertainment/ 
Yahoo Recreation and Sports --- http://dir.yahoo.com/Recreation/ 
Bob Jensen's entertainment helpers --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/bookbob2.htm#History  
Bob Jensen's links to free online music and video --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/music.htm 

Bob Jensen's links to electronic literature (including textbooks) --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/ElectronicLiterature.htm 

How science stuff works --- http://science.howstuffworks.com/ 
Yahoo Science --- http://dir.yahoo.com/Science/ 
Yahoo Social Science --- http://dir.yahoo.com/Social_Science/ 
Yahoo Science and Culture --- http://dir.yahoo.com/Society_and_Culture/ 

How education/learning stuff works --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/bookbob2.htm 
Bob Jensen's threads on learning assessment --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/assess.htm 
U.S. Department of Education --- http://www.ed.gov/index.jhtml 

Bob Jensen's video helpers for MS Excel, MS Access, and other helper videos are at http://www.cs.trinity.edu/~rjensen/video/ 
Accompanying documentation can be found at http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/default1.htm and http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/HelpersVideos.htm Blackboard Helpers --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/blackboard.htm 

Jack Anderson's Accounting Information Finder --- http://www.umsl.edu/~anderson/accsites.htm 

Accountancy Discussion ListServs:

For an elaboration on the reasons you should join a ListServ (usually for free) go to   http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/ListServRoles.htm

AECM (Educators) http://listserv.aaahq.org/cgi-bin/wa.exe?HOME AECM is an email Listserv list which provides a forum for discussions of all hardware and software which can be useful in any way for accounting education at the college/university level. Hardware includes all platforms and peripherals. Software includes spreadsheets, practice sets, multimedia authoring and presentation packages, data base programs, tax packages, World Wide Web applications, etc. Over the years the AECM has become the worldwide forum for accounting educators on all issues of accountancy and accounting education, including debates on accounting standards, managerial accounting, careers, fraud, forensic accounting, auditing, doctoral programs, and critical debates on academic (accountics) research, publication, replication, and validity testing.

CPAS-L (Practitioners) http://pacioli.loyola.edu/cpas-l/  (Closed Down) CPAS-L provides a forum for discussions of all aspects of the practice of accounting. It provides an unmoderated environment where issues, questions, comments, ideas, etc. related to accounting can be freely discussed. Members are welcome to take an active role by posting to CPAS-L or an inactive role by just monitoring the list. You qualify for a free subscription if you are either a CPA or a professional accountant in public accounting, private industry, government or education. Others will be denied access.

Yahoo (Practitioners)  http://groups.yahoo.com/group/xyztalk This forum is for CPAs to discuss the activities of the AICPA. This can be anything  from the CPA2BIZ portal to the XYZ initiative or anything else that relates to the AICPA.

AccountantsWorld  http://accountantsworld.com/forums/default.asp?scope=1  This site hosts various discussion groups on such topics as accounting software, consulting, financial planning, fixed assets, payroll, human resources, profit on the Internet, and taxation.

Business Valuation Group BusValGroup-subscribe@topica.com  This discussion group is headed by Randy Schostag [RSchostag@BUSVALGROUP.COM]

FEI's Financial Reporting Blog Smart Stops on the Web, Journal of Accountancy, March 2008 --- http://www.aicpa.org/pubs/jofa/mar2008/smart_stops.htm FINANCIAL REPORTING PORTAL www.financialexecutives.org/blog Find news highlights from the SEC, FASB and the International Accounting Standards Board on this financial reporting blog from Financial Executives International. The site, updated daily, compiles regulatory news, rulings and statements, comment letters on standards, and hot topics from the Web’s largest business and accounting publications and organizations. Look for continuing coverage of SOX requirements, fair value reporting and the Alternative Minimum Tax, plus emerging issues such as the subprime mortgage crisis, international convergence, and rules for tax return preparers.

The CAlCPA Tax Listserv September 4, 2008 message from Scott Bonacker [lister@bonackers.com] Scott has been a long-time contributor to the AECM listserv (he's a techie as well as a practicing CPA) I found another listserve that is exceptional - CalCPA maintains http://groups.yahoo.com/taxtalk/  and they let almost anyone join it. Jim Counts, CPA is moderator. There are several highly capable people that make frequent answers to tax questions posted there, and the answers are often in depth. Scott Scott forwarded the following message from Jim Counts Yes you may mention info on your listserve about TaxTalk. As part of what you say please say [... any CPA or attorney or a member of the Calif Society of CPAs may join. It is possible to join without having a free Yahoo account but then they will not have access to the files and other items posted. Once signed in on their Yahoo account go to http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/TaxTalk/ and I believe in top right corner is Join Group. Click on it and answer the few questions and in the comment box say you are a CPA or attorney, whichever you are and I will get the request to join. Be aware that we run on the average 30 or move emails per day. I encourage people to set up a folder for just the emails from this listserve and then via a rule or filter send them to that folder instead of having them be in your inbox. Thus you can read them when you want and it will not fill up the inbox when you are looking for client emails etc. We currently have about 830 CPAs and attorneys nationwide but mainly in California.... ] Please encourage your members to join our listserve. If any questions let me know. Jim Counts CPA.CITP CTFA Hemet, CA Moderator TaxTalk

 

 

Fraud Updates --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/FraudUpdates.htm

 

Facts about the earth in real time --- http://www.worldometers.info/ 

Jesse's Wonderful Music for Romantics (You have to scroll down to the titles) --- http://www.jessiesweb.com/

International Accounting News (including the U.S.)

AccountingEducation.com and Double Entries --- http://www.accountingeducation.com/
        Upcoming international accounting conferences --- http://www.accountingeducation.com/events/index.cfm
        Thousands of journal abstracts --- http://www.accountingeducation.com/journals/index.cfm
 

Deloitte's International Accounting News --- http://www.iasplus.com/index.htm
 

Association of International Accountants --- http://www.aia.org.uk/ 

Wikipedia has a rather nice summary of accounting software at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accounting_software
Bob Jensen’s accounting software bookmarks are at http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Bookbob1.htm#AccountingSoftware

Bob Jensen's accounting history summary --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Theory01.htm#AccountingHistory

Bob Jensen's accounting theory summary --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Theory.htm

 

AccountingWeb --- http://www.accountingweb.com/

 

SmartPros --- http://www.smartpros.com/

 

I highly recommend TheFinanceProfessor (an absolutely fabulous and totally free newsletter from a very smart finance professor, Jim Mahar from St. Bonaventure University) --- http://www.financeprofessor.com/ 

 

Financial Rounds (from the Unknown Professor) --- http://financialrounds.blogspot.com/

 

Bob Jensen's bookmarks for accounting newsletters are at http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/bookbob1.htm#News 

News Headlines for Accounting from TheCycles.com --- http://www.thecycles.com/business/accounting 
An unbelievable number of other news headlines categories in TheCycles.com are at http://www.thecycles.com/ 

 

Tom Selling's blog The Accounting Onion (great on theory and practice) --- http://accountingonion.typepad.com/

 

Jack Anderson's Accounting Information Finder --- http://www.umsl.edu/~anderson/accsites.htm

 

Gerald Trite's great set of links --- http://www.zorba.ca/bookmark.htm 

 

The Finance Professor --- http://www.financeprofessor.com/about/aboutFP.html 

 

Walt Mossberg's many answers to questions in technology --- http://ptech.wsj.com/

 

How stuff works --- http://www.howstuffworks.com/ 

 

Household and Other Heloise-Style Hints --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/bookbob3.htm#Hints 

 

Bob Jensen's video helpers for MS Excel, MS Access, and other helper videos are at http://www.cs.trinity.edu/~rjensen/video/ 
Accompanying documentation can be found at http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/default1.htm and http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/HelpersVideos.htm 

 

Click on www.syllabus.com/radio/index.asp for a complete list of interviews with established leaders, creative thinkers and education technology experts in higher education from around the country.

 

Wikipedia has a rather nice summary of accounting software at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accounting_software
Bob Jensen’s accounting software bookmarks are at http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Bookbob1.htm#AccountingSoftware

Bob Jensen's accounting history summary --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Theory01.htm#AccountingHistory

Bob Jensen's accounting theory summary --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Theory.htm

Bob Jensen's helpers for accounting educators --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Default3.htm

Bob Jensen's threads --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Threads.htm

Quick Finds:

In 1876, my grandparents (Julius and Regina Jensen) donated a corner of their farm so that nearby Norwegian immigrants could build the Blakjer Church and a cemetery --- http://www.rootsweb.com/~cemetery/iowa/cemeteries/blakjerlutherancem.htm 
Bob mentions this church in his story about growing up --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/max01.htm 
In the Year 2002, the church was moved from the country to a city park in Lone Rock --- http://www.lonerockiowa.com/attractions.html 
The cemetery is still out on our old farm.

I wrote a document (screen play? short story? tutorial? case?) that is a takeoff on the Muppets.  It is entitled "Clyde Gives Brother Hat a Lesson in Arbitrage" and can be found at http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/acct5341/speakers/muppets.htm 

A Poem to Erika --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/NHcottage/NHcottage.htm#Visiting 

Bob's Stories About Growing Up

• Short story entitled My Glimpse of Heaven:  What I learned from Max and Gwen

• Short story entitled Mrs. Applegate's Boarding House (with Navy pictures)
   

Acceptance Speech for the August 15, 2002 American Accounting Association's Outstanding Educator Award --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/AAAaward_files/AAAaward02.htm

A Year 2000 message of love from my wife, Erika.  
She describes how a Munich street urchin became Cinderella filled with love and joy --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/erika/xmas00.htm 

A Year 2001 message of love from my wife, Erika 
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/erika/xmas01.htm 

My father (Vernon) passed away on January 20, 2002.  In 1995, he asked me to write a story about his first trip away from the farm (when he was fourteen years old).  You can read the story at http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/vernon.htm 

Chris Faye's letter about my dad is at http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/dad01.htm 

You can read an autobiography by Amey Cherland at http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/AmeyCherlandObituary.htm 
I have also attached a copy.  Amey gave this to me in a hand-written notebook when my father died in January of this year.  I promised Amey that I would type it up and put it on the Internet.  By a very strange coincidence, I finished typing it up on the day he died, but I did not learn that he had died until several days later when I got a message from David and Lynn Jenson.
Amey died on October 4, 2002.  He was 95 years old.

Hasselback's Accounting Faculty Directory (Online and Hardcopy) --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/AccountingNews.htm

Accounting Journals Index
American Accounting Association (AAA)
American Institute of CPAs (AICPA)          Journal of Accountancy 
European Accounting Association (EAA)
Financial Executives Insternational (FEI) or the FEI Express Newsletter  or Financial Executive 
NetSuite and other webledgers --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/webledger.htm 

International Standards from the IASB (formerly IASC) --- http://www.iasb.org/Home.htm

U.S. Standards from the FASB (Free Downloads) --- http://www.fasb.org/public/ 
FASB homepage --- http://www.fasb.org/

Management Accounting Standards from the IMA (Free Downloads) --- http://www.imanet.org/publications_statements.asp#C
IMA homepage --- http://www.imanet.org/

Bob Jensen's summary of accounting theory and controversies --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen//theory/00overview/theory01.htm

Travel Helpers --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Bookbob3.htm#Travel
Google Maps Street View --- http://maps.google.com/help/maps/streetview/
Google maps and satellite images --- http://maps.google.com/
Maps and Driving Instructions --- http://www.mapquest.com/      International Maps from MapBlast! --- http://mapblast.com
Yahoo Maps and Driving Directions --- http://maps.yahoo.com/ 

Airport Hotel Guide --- http://www.airporthotelguide.com/ 

This site is absolutely unbelievable in providing pictures of homes, businesses, and government offices around the world ---
http://showmystreet.com/ 

Yahoo's localized search for businesses and other sites of interest in a localized area is called Yahoo Local --- http://local.yahoo.com/  
Yahoo's localized search for businesses and other sites of interest in a localized area is called Yahoo Local --- http://local.yahoo.com/ 

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My distant cousin Bob Overn clued me into the Bing aerial view maps. These are great!!

Let me walk you through an example.
I have to take Erika to the New England Baptist Hospital next week for more tests on her broken back.

• Go to the Bing search engine at http://www.bing.com/
   
• Enter the address into the search box (without quotation marks)
  125 Parker Hill Ave., Roxbury Crossing, MA 02120
   
• Click on "Map of 125 Parker Hill Ave., Roxbury Crossing, MA 02120"
   
• On the right side of the map near the top pass the mouse pointer over the menu choice Road
  A drop down menu appears
  Choose Birds Eye View
  The map changes to an aerial view (not a real time current view, but a clear view nevertheless)
   
• Since I have a wheel on my mouse I can zoom in or out simply by turning the wheel
  The New England Baptist Hospital is the large building to the upper left of the red balloon

I tried this for the address in Baltimore where my friend Barry Rice lives.
I then got a good view of his townhouse.

I found that it's not always possible to get a Bing map to come up for an address
For example, the Cannon Mountain Ski Resort mailing address is
9 Franconia Notch State Park, Franconia, NH 03580
Using the above address I do not get an option for a Bing map
But you can use the Franconia Hardware address
334 Main St., Franconia 03580

• Go to the Bing search engine at http://www.bing.com/
   
• Enter the address into the search box (without quotation marks)
  334 Main St., Franconia 03580
   
• Click on "Map of 334 Main St., Franconia 03580"
   
• On the right side of the map near the top pass the mouse pointer over the menu choice Road
  A drop down menu appears
  Choose Birds Eye View
  The map changes to an aerial view (not a real time current view, but a clear view nevertheless)
   
• On the map proceed southwest on I-93 until it changes to Franconia Notch Parkway
  You are now in the mountain pass of Franconia Notch State Park
  Cannon Mountain Ski Resort is beside Echo Lake
  Cannon Mountain still has some snow and will not end the skiing until April 8 this year
   

When I tried this on our cottage I got a map but our cottage was hidden beneath the clouds on the day this aerial view photo was taken
190 Sunset Hill Road, Sugar Hill, NH 03586

The Bing areal views are photographs that do not change from day to day such that you will still get a cloudy view of Sugar Hill even if we're having a clear day.

 

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Now let's try a great Microsoft Silverlight Map Application
I think you have to have the free Silverlight installation for this one ---
http://www.microsoft.com/getsilverlight/get-started/install/default.aspx

Then go to
Microsoft Virtual Earth Amazing 3D Modeling Fly Over Aerial View Bing.com
http://www.microsoft.com/maps/isdk/silverlight/ 
 

I then move about with my mouse pointer and zoom with the wheel of my mouse.
Wow --- I can zoom in on the New England Baptist Hospital without having to enter an address (as long as I know where it's located in the Boston area)

 

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"Bing's Travel Search, So Much Better Than Google, Gets Even Better," by Marshall Kirkpatrick, ReadWriteWeb, February 25, 2011 ---
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/bings_travel_search_so_much_better_than_google_get.php

Google does almost nothing interesting in travel search. Bing offers a much more compelling travel search experience and today added a new little feature that makes me want to use it even more.

Search on Bing for the phrase "fly to..." and the name of a major destination city and you will now see an automatic display of the best dates to fly from where you are to that place, with the lowest price for a round trip ticket and advice about whether the price is likely to go up or down if you waited to buy the ticket later. It's really cool.

Bob Jensen's travel helpers ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Bookbob3.htm#Travel

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Maps (including San Antonio Maps)
 http://www.accuweather.com/adcbin/maps_index?nav=home&partner=accuweather

Driving distance calculator   or try the AutoWorld Calculator
Flying distance calculator 
Postcode-to-postcode distance calculator 
International Distance Calculator
Bob Jensen's travel helpers --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/bookbob3.htm 

Foreign Currency FX Converter --- http://www.xe.com/ucc/ 
Live Currency Converter --- http://www.livecurrencyconverter.com/
Also see http://www.oanda.com/currency/converter/

Search Helpers --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/searchh.htm

Free Music and Movie Links --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/music.htm

Erika and I moved to the White Mountains of New Hampshire on June 15, 2000 ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/NHcottage/NHcottage.htm  
(But in September, I returned to my faculty duties back in Texas until May 2006.)

What is new at this Website?

Granulation
Obviously correlation is not causation, but don't suggest this too loudly to referees of The Accounting Review ---
An enormous problem with accountics science, and finance in general,  is that these sciences largely confine themselves to databases where it's only possible to establish correlations and not causes, because zero causal information is contained in the big databases they purchase rather than collect themselves ---
http://www.cs.trinity.edu/~rjensen/temp/AccounticsGranulationCurrentDraft.pdf