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I'm an accountant working for an international business. I've recently taken up writing at Helium as a spare time activity and hopefully to earn some money as well.

I travel a lot, so writing is a good way of using the time I spend waiting in airports!

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Business > Finance & Insurance What is the accounting concept of Cash Flow?: 1 of 5

Profit is an attempt to measure the value added by the activity of the team of people who make up a business. Accountants attempt to measure this by following some established principles; for example, matching income and expenses in the relevant period, ensuring that the expenses incurred in getting the sale and delivering t...
Parenting & Pregnancy > Parenthood The fathering aspect of parenthood: 4 of 16

Britain's relative decline since the 1950's has been blamed on poor parenting, leading to feral children, violence in schools, and recent spates of knife crime and gang violence on the streets of London. Certainly there have been significant changes in the other two traditional pillars of civilization in the upbringing of ch...
Parenting & Pregnancy > Tweens & Pre-Teens Tips for staying connected with teens in a computer age: 2 of 7

We are an online family; my wife and I were online before the kids were. At the same time, the kids are far more fascinated by new technology than we are, so they can teach us how to use some of the new gadgets or software. They love it when they know something we don't. Many of us have a picture in our minds when family lif...
Business > Finance & Insurance Bookkeeping and accounting tips: 2 of 6

An important part of starting your own business is getting used to keeping business records. You need to know all the time how your business is doing, because if you are not making money you will need to make changes. Also, the taxman is interested in how you are doing as well! You need to keep the books. You can pay someone...
Business > International Business & Trade Global communication: Problem solving model for businesses: 1 of 3

Global communication problem solving model for businesses It is clear that global communications have become considerably easier in the past few decades, through technology. From the days when the telex was the leading edge technology (which made a difference in its time) to the days of webcasts is a huge step. Also, busines...
Business > Finance & Insurance How to borrow money against business receivables: 1 of 2

Financing a business through factoring your receivables can be a good solution for a small business, and helps close the time gap between disbursing your funds to acquire your product or service, paying your establishment overheads, property costs and your staff, and receiving the cash from your customers. It could also give...
Religion & Spirituality > Christian Beliefs & Culture Is Jesus the only way of salvation?: 49 of 79

Of course we all want to be saved from damnation, but that statement poses a few questions. What does the damnation consist of? Who, or what, is going to damn us? Jesus did say that he was "the way, the truth, and the life", but what does that mean? These questions are often clouded, particularly for non-believers, in Christ...
Creative Writing > Memoirs Memoirs: Experiencing terrorism: 3 of 4

I must have been around 15 years old. It was when school was just finished, and I was walking down the street towards the bus station to get the bus home. Earlier that day we had all gathered on the lawn at the front of the school, opposite the convention centre, to watch it burn. We missed maths. We hadn't been allowed out ...
Arts & Humanities > Language Learning Tips Why learning languages is so hard: 14 of 15

The first thing to say is that it is not as hard as some other things. I did languages at school because, for me at least, it was a lot easier than physics, chemistry or math. It's like learning a code the trouble is, that code has to encompass all of life. And then the first stage is really the hardest, so that to get to wh...
Arts & Humanities > French Language Do the French have better language skills than other countries?: 9 of 9

If you spend some time in France I think you will discover that the language skills of the French are no better, and in some cases worse, than their contemporaries in other countries. First, think about their skills with other people's languages. Brits and Americans are criticised for being unwilling or unable to learn other...