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Business-Dr. Sale’s Accounting Corner

Getting Your Dream Job

The job market has shown strong signs of recovery and business graduates are especially apt to benefit from this turn-around. According to a Reuters report hiring is up on college campuses around the country. The National [...]

Let Your Skills Shine

Recently, as I was looking for information for a different topic, I ran across an advertisement to fill accounting openings at Chevron. The thing that struck me about the ad was the list of non-accounting skills. In addition [...]

Huntsville Site — Induction of New Members into Delta Mu Delta

Today, the Epsilon Eta co-chapter of the Delta Mu Delta national business honor society inducted four new members and one honorary member into its ranks. A luncheon was held at The Heritage Club to initiate new [...]

Business Perspective

It makes sense that one must be business-like to fit into the business community, but what does that mean? It means developing business-like habits. Business-like can describe a full range of things from dress to demeanor, [...]

What ABOUT My Tattoo

Yes, I know body art and adornment isn’t where it was back in the day and that my opinion of your tattoos, piercings and gauges is irrelevant. As the mother of two adult kids with tattoos, [...]

So, What DO Accountants Do?

Accountants perform a wide variety of tasks related to recording and using financial information. They are employees of companies, governments and non-profit organizations as well as accounting, bookkeeping and tax firms. They prepare, analyze, and verify [...]

CPA, PA, CMA, CFE, Alphabet soup!

When you say accountant, the first thing that pops into the head of a lot of people is, “Oh, yeah, a CPA.” On the other hand when you say bookkeeper to some people, they interpret that [...]

XBRL Anyone?

Have you ever needed to compare the financial status of two or more companies, perhaps to do a financial statement analysis? I’ve needed to do this for classes, companies I was interested in for investing, and [...]

It Really IS Exciting Being an Accountant

by Martha Sale, Assoc. Professor I’d be the first to admit I didn’t choose to be an accountant because I thought it was the sexiest career available. My dad was a very practical man. He insisted that, not being [...]

Dr. Martha Sale, Assoc Professor

I was born in Arkansas, but have lived all over the south. I received my undergraduate degree in Accounting from Louisiana Tech University, Master of Accountancy from University of Florida and Doctor of Business Administration with a concentration in Accounting from Louisiana Tech. I live near Florida Tech with my husband, Danny who works at Kennedy Space Center. We have two children, JoAnn who lives in Ruston, Louisiana, and Sam who followed me into academe and is a management professor at Lamar University in Texas. We have six grandchildren. My major area of research and expertise is product and service costing, especially in emerging environments.