Just a small shout-out to what I though where the top-three blogs!
Number 1
Carly Gregg, author of https://plus.google.com/110630701646677495129/posts
Carly’s blog was very in-depth and she explored some of her KCQs in her blog posts, including a critical analysis of why her company was running at a loss and the challenges it faced in the Greek economic climate. The challenges Carly faced were quite similar to my own, I too was baffled by all the brackets in my financial report and it took a lot of help from Google to understand everything, but Carly definitely made an effort in reaching out to her peers for help, advice, thoughts and opinions which is greatly appreciated. Not only did Carly post frequently with her own opinions and updates on her progress she also posted numerous interesting articles on her company Aegean Airlines, I found the article from the Wall Street Journal, Greek Crisis Creates Airline Turbulence particularly interesting.
Number 2
Elizabeth Altoft, author of An Ordinary Business Student, http://ordinarybusinessstudent.blogspot.co.uk/
Elizabeth’s company Prana Biotechnology was in the same field as my company Genetic Technologies, also we both had companies based in Australia. The research Elizabeth did into her company was very impressive and actually prompted me to do a little digging of my own. Prana Technologies was also running at a loss like Genetic Technologies however Elizabeth discovered that Prana Technologies actually fell under the Australian Government tax incentive scheme relating to eligible research and development activities, introduced on 1 July 2011. This means that entities with an aggregated turnover for the income year of less than A$20 million will be entitled to a 45% refundable tax offset. I read the link she attached to her blog post about this and found it very interesting, I did think perhaps my company was eligible for a similar scheme but alas that was not the case. However I did discover that Genetic Technologies was divesting which I probably wouldn’t have noticed if it wasn’t for the effort Elizabeth went to to find answers to her key questions.
Number 3
Carmen Berkahn, author of Going a Little Nuts http://goingalittlenuts.blogspot.co.uk/
For some reason I do seem to find airline companies quite interesting which is what possibly drew me to Carmen’s blog as her company is AirAsia. However the main reason I chose Carmen’s blog as my number three was due mainly to the amount of content she posted up for everyone to see. My main criticism with a lot of blogs was the lack of content and only the basic information being posted up. Carmen has posted everything from video’s to article and her own analysis of her company’s annual reports. As a side note I also enjoyed many humorous memes as well, after all blogs are all about keeping the reader entertain while at the same time imparting important information on them. Carmen’s approach not only to this assessment but also accounting in general is very refreshing and instills a sense of hope in her readers.
Good on you guys, look forward to reading more!
