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Average length of employment : 1 year

Average salary of employees: $36,000

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Climbers who worked at Afi, Inc. had these interests:

Books
J.D. Robb	aka Nora Roberts; futuristic detective novels
Nora Roberts	aka J.D. Robb, suspense romance
James Patterson	crime thrillers
Jodi Picoult	contemporary stories about extraordinary circumstances, offers a wide range of perspectives
Future Files: A History of the Next Fifty Years	found when researching disruptive technologies; offers probable directions of future technologies, career paths, food availability, ...
Love is the Killer App: How to Win Business and Influence Friends	explains how 'love' is the key to personal and professional satisfaction
Blogs
ProBlogger http://www.problogger.com	articles on how to start and grow your own blog
Chronic Babe http://www.chronicbabe.com	inspiration and motivation for dealing with chronic illness either in yourself or in loved ones
Tip Hero http://www.tiphero.com	the best confirmed savings and deals on the web
Zen Habits http://www.zenhabits.com	tips on maintaining balance
The Good Human http://www.thegoodhuman.com	ways to "go green" for the common person
Magazines
Information Week	online version, latest data on information trends
Websites
Institue for Human and Machine Cognition http://www.ihmc.us	professional affiliation
Strategic Planning Society http://www.sps.org.uk	professional affiliation
Emotional Intelligence Consortium http://www.eiconsortium.org	professional and academic affiliation
Center for Creative Leadership http://www.ccl.org	professional affiliation
Likaholix http://www.likaholix.com	social likes and dislikes regarding books, movies, and music - based on your ratings, suggestions are generated for the user

Climbers' Joblogs at Afi, Inc.:

Recent Challenges

Last Monday, June 1, workday 1 in the accounting world, I found myself in a counter-intuitive situation that I would need to navigate. Our Controller had asked my supervisor if I was reliable enough to take over Payroll. Moments before, one of our assistants turned in their resignation giving two weeks notice. My boss's answer to the first was no, I was not reliable - he shared this information with me and then gave me the assistant's closing responsibilities.

As a capital auditor, my crunch time is during the last week of the month as I reduce accruals by booking as many payables as possible, close capital projects to fixed assets to begin depreciation, retire assets that have been disposed of or replaced to get their values off the books, and monitor the settlement processes. I am not an accountant, I am however a number-junkie who loves data and gathering information. My loosely defined closing activities were, up to this point, non-critical activities that had no actual 'deadline'. Instead they had windows in which they should be completed.

Denying my reliability to the upper management then assigning me time critical activities that are key in the closing process is counter-intuitive. At least to me. If I were unreliable, giving me additional responsibilities would make no sense. Regardless, I will rise to the challenge and give my best effort to perform my new duties while balancing my regular duties.

After a week of training, I have already identified several potential ways to make these tasks more efficient and less paper-heavy. After a couple of accounting cycles, I will begin to implement changes to see if the process can be improved and hopefully shortened.

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