Word: spreadsheets
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...spreadsheet. Start with a government budget of 100, no debt and an annual deficit of zero. Call interest rates 4%. And say that in year one we get a 10%, across-the-board tax cut. Let's assume further that there is a starve-the-beast effect of 90%. This means that 90˘ of any dollar in tax cuts is covered by spending cuts that emerge spontaneously from the national subconscious. Assume finally that all the other things that affect government revenue and spending don't exist. What happens...
...recruiting information session. I had watched him ask questions he already knew the answers to for 10 minutes when he finally moved in for the kill. He began to tell the recruiter how much fun he thinks investment banking is, how sitting in front of a spreadsheet at 3 a.m. on a Saturday sounds like a great way to spend an evening and how he really believes that it would be enormous fun to work for an organization that cares very little about him as a person. I didn’t really sympathize with him. I also didn?...
Green eyeshades are apparently in fashion at MTV: the bastion of video cool is putting a spreadsheet maven in charge of its international operations. Alex Ferrari, a 21-year finance-department veteran, will oversee the 96 channels outside the U.S. that account for 80% of MTV's viewers. "We've pretty much planted the flag everywhere that we can possibly be," he says. His challenge? Keeping pace with the 40% earnings growth his division registered last year and increasing the audience in developing markets such as India and China, where MTV recently launched a 24-hour channel...
Sorenstam, a math lover and self-confessed geek, says "the numbers always tell the truth." For 16 years she has kept a spreadsheet with all her vital golfing stats--scoring, putting, driving. In 1987 "my scoring average was 77," she notes. Last year it was an LPGA record 68.70. (Tiger Woods' average was 68.56.) "It's fun to see the progress," she says. Despite the presence of phenoms such as Karrie Webb and Se Ri Pak, Sorenstam has owned the past two seasons. In 2001 she won 11 tournaments and shot a record-low round of 59; last year...
After boot camp, Kanz was assigned to Army Aviation and spent the remaining 10 months working on a helicopter airfield. He performed basic bookkeeping duties there, spending a half-hour each morning entering numbers into an Excel spreadsheet. Kanz befriended the pilots at the airfield, and three or four days a week they would take him flying when he had nothing to do. He traveled many places with them, including, in one instance, over his own house. “My parents were scared shitless,” he says, laughing...