Categories: "Professional"

Professional Welcome

Welcome to the professional section of my blog. The blog entries in this section are intended to cover subjects in my primary areas of expertise, particularly accounting and information technology. Design, consulting and business related topics are some of the other areas I have focused on in the past. My resume can be reviewed at http://www.tylerhosting.com/dbell/resume to see what projects I have been involved with in these areas.

The categories are not broken down further, but the following are some of subjects of interest in each of the areas that I anticipate discussing.

Accounting
Taxation, consulting, non-profit

Business
Manufacturing, inventory control

Consulting
Small business

Financial Planning
Individual financial, retirement, and tax planning

Information Technology
Web development, database development, software, project management

Tax Accounting
Individual and business tax law, preparation, and planning

The efforts in this section will also be focused on identifying solutions in these areas than discussing personal concerns. When I consolidated my blogs into one I decided to leave most of the older log entries of a personal nature in a separate section for now. 

The Research Review Method

June 10th, 2012
For my first CPA exam, I decided to go without one of the review courses. Instead, I am researching the material as a method of preparing for the CPA exam. I'm currently going through REG material and I have found that there is a wide range of material… more »

BLT (business law & tax) in July?

May 30th, 2012
<Posted on cpaexamclub.com> Studying for REG, I've decided that it could best be described as Business Law and Tax (BLT). I've taken individual and entity taxation classes, and a basic Business Law course and that covers practically everything in… more »

The Thing About CMS

August 22nd, 2010
In my first year as a student at UT Tyler, I had to write a paper, essentially recommending an improvement for the campus. My paper was about the UT Tyler website, and in the end I suggested that they need to have a content management system. Last year,… more »

Patriot Jobs follow-up

June 20th, 2010
Since the last post on this blog, and the last post on this subject, things have changed. The UT Tyler job site, PatriotJobs now uses software by NACE, which is much less bug-ridden. Still there is less freedom in navigation, and the superfluous natio… more »

MySQL Selected for Database Design Class

January 12th, 2009
<posted on it-toolbox.com> I returned to school today for the first day of the new semester, and it seems reason has made a breakthrough. As many of you know, institutions tend to favor the more respectable software packages, and not necessari… more »

Laptops

December 30th, 2008
<posted on it-toolbox.com> I finished my first semester back in school and did it without a laptop. I considered getting a new wide-screen laptop during the semester, but I kept asking myself, "What do I do with it?" I hear that some elite sch… more »

Project Management Styles

December 9th, 2008
<posted on it-toolbox.com> It's been two weeks since my last post here. I guess you could say I've been slacking a little with the blog but I have a good excuse. This week I'm finishing up my last major project, and next week is finals week. T… more »