Random musings

Yesterday I spent an hour with t he director who wanted to know about the way I manage my expenses . A few hours after the session I bumped into her and she told me that she had downloaded the app, done the initial setup and recorded her first transaction in less than 15 minutes. It was a satisfying outcome but what bought a smile was the thought that I could go on for an hour and keep a director engaged on something that was essentially a five minute job :D But apart from that it was a very satisfying discussion for me too. I guess this for the first I had such a discussion on the topic. And in the process of explaining some of the things I ended up articulating the things I did in a very interesting way. Below is the modified one pager that I had given her. A Modified version of the one pager I gave her :) Essentially the idea is that I record the transactions as soon as I incur them and using my setup I place these transactions into different buckets. The repor...

A few days back a Lady who sits near me was filing her Expense Reports. And that was enough for me to show off my iPhones apps for managing my expenses. The lady liked what I did and she wanted to know more. And before I knew it, I realised that that the lady in question has a Admin assistant. And before I realised it, she asked her admin to fix up an appointment with me on how I use my expense app. And not long after I had an appointment request on my calendar for a 1 hour session on the subject :(( As if taking a 1 hour session on how to use an app wasn’t enough I realised that the lady with the admin assistant is a Director in the company :(( So here I am trying to figure what am I going to tell a Director about managing your expenses? And as a test case I am going to bug you guys before I torture the poor lady ;) The funny part about my experiences with managing my expenses is that I haven’t been all that great with it. In fact when I was in Coke I had foregone a fortune i...