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Cameron Graham
November 21, 2018
Social Theory

Microaccountability

Cameron Graham
November 21, 2018
Social Theory
Microaccountability

How our obligations to each other define us.

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Cameron Graham
November 10, 2017
Financial Accounting

Preferred Shares

Cameron Graham
November 10, 2017
Financial Accounting
Preferred Shares

A very, very brief primer on preferred shares.

2 Comments
Cameron Graham
May 29, 2017
Social Theory

Biopolitics

Cameron Graham
May 29, 2017
Social Theory
Biopolitics

Biopolitics: everyone's an entrepreneur now.

Tagged: Foucault, Chipmunks, Biopolitics, Entrepreneur

5 Comments
Cameron Graham
December 2, 2016
Financial Accounting

Corporate Income Tax

Cameron Graham
December 2, 2016
Financial Accounting
Corporate Income Tax

How corporate income tax works.

Tagged: advanced, tax, Canada

3 Comments
Cameron Graham
October 17, 2016
Financial Statements

The Cash Flow Statement

Cameron Graham
October 17, 2016
Financial Statements
The Cash Flow Statement

The cash flow statement shows us where a company's cash came from, and where it went. 

Tagged: Saputo, basics, cash flow statement

2 Comments
Cameron Graham
September 27, 2016
Financial Accounting

How Stock Options Work

Cameron Graham
September 27, 2016
Financial Accounting
How Stock Options Work

Sometimes stock options work out. Sometimes they don't. They are a cost to the company either way.

Tagged: advanced, stock options, asymmetry

2 Comments
Cameron Graham
September 18, 2016
Financial Accounting

Fair Value

Cameron Graham
September 18, 2016
Financial Accounting
Fair Value

Companies used to report what they paid for assets. Now they are encouraged to report values that are more relevant. What could go wrong?

Tagged: advanced, fair value, historical cost, depreciation

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Cameron Graham
August 10, 2016
Financial Statements

The Income Statement

Cameron Graham
August 10, 2016
Financial Statements
The Income Statement

An income statement takes all the revenue and expenses of a company and parcels them out in regular one-year intervals. It's like the difference between a free-flowing stream and an engineered lock.

Tagged: basics, income statement

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Cameron Graham
July 18, 2016
Financial Statements

The Balance Sheet

Cameron Graham
July 18, 2016
Financial Statements
The Balance Sheet

A very brief overview of what a balance sheet has to say for itself, using Apple's 2015 annual report as an example.

Tagged: balance sheet, Apple, basics

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Cameron Graham
June 14, 2016
Social Theory

Giving an Account of Oneself

Cameron Graham
June 14, 2016
Social Theory
Giving an Account of Oneself

Accounting is about our desire to tell our own story.

Tagged: accountability, philosophy

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Cameron Graham
May 11, 2016
Social Theory

Chunking

Cameron Graham
May 11, 2016
Social Theory
Chunking

The way we divide up the world says as much about us than it does about the world.

Tagged: Rorty, philosophy

2 Comments
Cameron Graham
April 10, 2016
Social Theory

Anti-essentialism

Cameron Graham
April 10, 2016
Social Theory
Anti-essentialism

A poem is a poem because it is like The Waste Land or a Shakespearean sonnet and not like a user's guide to a toaster oven.

Tagged: Rorty, philosophy

2 Comments
Cameron Graham
April 6, 2016
Social Theory

History of the Present

Cameron Graham
April 6, 2016
Social Theory
History of the Present

How on earth did we get here, of all places?

Tagged: Foucault, social theory, philosophy

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Cameron Graham
April 3, 2016
Social Theory

Binary Oppositions

Cameron Graham
April 3, 2016
Social Theory
Binary Oppositions

Our favourite way of dividing up the world is with the labels "us" and "them."

Tagged: Rorty, Butler, social theory, philosophy

2 Comments
Cameron Graham
April 2, 2016
Social Theory

Understanding understanding

Cameron Graham
April 2, 2016
Social Theory
Understanding understanding

What would you like to know?

Tagged: Rorty, philosophy, social theory

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