Ordering Chaos
Small confession: I love doing my taxes. I can’t help it. I find it fulfilling to complete a year’s worth of financial reporting and creating summaries of how I spent my time and my resources for both personal and professional […]
March 2015 Tasks
I write this watching snowfall outside the window beside me. If I didn’t know better, I’d swear today was the start of February, not March. What’s more – Apparently, we’re supposed to get nearly five additional inches of snow today, […]
Debt Sentence
As a client-serving CPA who happens to also work in higher education, the role of debt for young artists is never far from my mind. That’s why I was thrilled to talk to Diep Tran for her article “Debt […]
Changes Afoot in Nonprofit Accounting
Nonprofit accountants are gathered in Washington now for the annual AICPA Nonprofit Conference (an excellent gathering I’ve attended in years past). Ken Tysiac reported on six key developments discussed yesterday in an article he released in The Journal of Accountancy. […]
March (Tax) Madness
March Madness, for me, means taxes. I do our family’s taxes each year (shocking, right?), and I tend to do them during the first weekend of the March Madness basketball tournament. It just seems to be a more pleasant approach […]
A Challenge of Olympic Proportions
‘Tis the Olympic season, and along with the breathtaking displays of athleticism, grace, humility, and pride comes an unforeseen consequence: Amateur injuries. Many of us casual skiers watch the downhill competitions with false confidence. We could do that, we think, […]
The Beauty of “And”
There’s something special about the word “and.” It’s one of my favorites, and it packs quite a punch in an incredibly modest package. No where is “and” on more prominent display than with the arts AND business councils we find […]
Healthcare 101
It’s October, and we’re six days into the availability of healthcare exchanges and (not coincidentally) six days into the government shut down. (Sidebar: The Times ran a disturbing front page article today about the planning, jostling, and dollars leading up […]
Get to the Point(e)
Thanks to Pointe Magazine (a gorgeous ballet magazine) for featuring Arts & Numbers and interviewing me this month. The title of the piece, Dream Job, Nightmare Salary: Make it Work, is as catchy as Juliana Labianca’s prose. The Q&A and […]
Me? A Researcher?
I am so excited to announce that I’ll be presenting a paper called, “When I Grow Up I Want to Budget: The Connection Between Non-Art Tasks and a Successful Art Career,” at the Southeastern Conference of Art Colleges in Greensboro, […]
