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Management Accountant which was earlier http://managementaccountant.blogspot.com has moved to its own domain www.managementaccountant.in . You will be able to access the blog same as before.

The technical changeover is seamless since Management Accountant blogs on the blogger. I had moments of challenge when I had changed the setting in the domain name control panel. Now I am delighted with the new home www.managementaccountant.in.

The first post was published in Management Accountant on 25th Nov 2006 “Best Practice Managerial Accounting with MySAP ERP Financials“. Then there has been series of articles published that would help the Management Accountants and the aspiring ones.

Few statistics I would like to share with you (readers) about the Management Accountant Blog.

Top 10: Most Read pages on The Management Accountant Blog

1. Home Page
2. SAP FICO Interview Questions
3. Profit Smoothing
4. Throughput Accounting
5. SAP FICO Certification Questions 1
6. SAP FICO Certification Questions 3
7. SAP FICO Certification Questions 2
8. SAP or Oracle Financials - which one should I do
9. Choosing an Accounting Qualification
10. Cost Audit Awareness in India

Top 10 key words search that leads to The Management Accountant Blog

1. Profit Smoothing
2. Throughput Accounting
3. sap fico interview questions
4. Learning curve theory
5. sap interview questions
6. Management Accountant
7. IFRS8
8. fico interview questions
9. sap fico faqs
10. Accountant Goals

Top 5 countries where readers of the Management Accountant reside

1. United States
2. India
3. United Kingdom
4. Australia
5. Canada

Top 10 My Favourites

1. Activity Based Management - Dispelling the myths
2. Resistance to Change
3. Goal setting your career
4. Porter’s diamond
5. Honda 50cc imposed strategy
6. Strategic Drift
7. Profession vs Professionalism
8. How to identify a blind spot in your career
9. Networking and how to use social networking sites
10. Cost of buying information

Quite often I have received emails from the readers of the Management Accountant blog, about what accounting qualification they should pursue, where to do SAP training and certification and how to set up a website or a blog. Some of the topics are based on the questions posed to me by the readers. Keep writing to me so that I can help you.

The more you participate in various forums, the more you know about the needs and requirements of the professionals. CMA India Portal is one of the outcome of such endeavour where the ideas were discussed with management accountants and portal has been designed to fulfill the networking needs. This portal helps in sharing experiences and exchanging ideas.

Management Accountant Blog has achieved a google page rank of 4/10. All the credit goes to the readers of the Management Accountant blog. On my New Year Resolution, there is a quote

Life is like having a cup of tea.
You sit by the side of the window, lift the cup and take a careless sip,
Only to realize, somebody forgot to put the sugar.
Too lazy to go for it you somehow struggle through the sugarless cup.
Until you discover un-dissolved sugar crystals sitting at the bottom…

With Regards,

Santosh Puthran

Raj asked me following questions:

I believe that most of the readers of Management Accountant Blog will have similar questions.

Stumbleupon: If you want to buy a TV, you will look for an expert guide on the features, price, competition analysis, ratings and so on and forth. And then you decide which one to buy. However, now a days, you will look for the reviews made by the ordinary users who have bought the actual product. More the reviews you are better informed to make decisions. Stumbleupon works on same concept. Click here to know more

Easy to Use, Community-based surfing:

The StumbleUpon Toolbar is integrated with the user’s browser to allow for one-click access to quality web sites. A simple 2-level rating system gives users the opportunity to pass on or give their opinion on any webpage with a single click. These ratings also connect people sharing unique combinations of interests. Stumblers share their favorite web sites and interact with other users to further improve their web surfing experience.

Spock: Spock is the first editable search engine for finding people on the web. You may be participating in lot of forums and are in the news quite often. All these information are fragmented.

E.g.

The people who know closely only know about you. Spock will help people to know about you. with a search on the internet. If you are a accountant or Consultant in practise then Spock is one of the best way to promote yourself. Click here to know how it works.

What is meant by Feed ,in one of your article you mentioned about RSS Feed.

There are two short videos that explains how RSS functions

Google Reader - Introduction

RSS Feeds - Introduction

Not able to view above two videos. Click here to view them

Don’t forget to subscribe to the following feeds. The feeds are driven updates from informative sites.

Subscribe to RSS Feeds and be up-to-date

If you have any questions, please comment on the blog or write to me, I will try to address them. The questions that you have may also be relevant to other readers of the Management Accountant Blog.

You have been reading Management Accountant Blog and receiving updates via email or RSS feeds. Have you looked at the options of sharing the posts to your friends or professionals in Accountancy. This would make the Management Accountant Blog richer and interactive when people start to discuss articles, give opinions and view points.

Here are few tips how you can share the articles of Management Accountant Blog with your friends

1. ShareThis . On the footer of every post, there is an icon ShareThis, that helps you share the post with your friends by email or recommend it to social network sites like Digg, stumbleupon, technorati, myspace and many more. The add-on makes your life easy in sharing the posts.
2. SezWho: Your rating on the blog will definitely help me to improve the contents on the blog. Moreover, if you are a blogger or website owner, you should install sezwho add-on your website. To demonstrate hover the cursor on check me out in this post below. You notice the posts and comments of the commentor. The more you rate posts, more people are going to know about you.
3. Stumbleupon: Stumbleupon addons on your browser lets you share informative and interesting website you stumbleupon with your friends by click. Similarly updates from your friends are visible to you. Whenever I get bored and have nothing to do, then I start clicking on photo and video icons on the tool bar. I must admit, it shows me the best photos and videos people have stumbleupon across the world. Add me as your friend on http://talk2santosh.stumbleupon.com and share Management Accountant post with your friends.
4. Digg: This website has most number of users who are actively “Digging”. They are interesting, informative and funny. You can customise your Home Page to your preferences and read the popular sections. Click here for Firefox Addon. Add me as your friend on http://digg.com/users/talk2santosh/friends/

I have consolidated the feeds that I regularly visit to updates myself to the latest happenings for the benefit of the readers:

RSS Feeds to keep you alive and up-to-date

1. Management Accountant
2. Accountancy News
3. My Favorite Blogs that I track
4. SAP Jobs & Opportunities

When you click on the above links, you have the options to subscribe to it by email, google reader or my yahoo or any front page reader you use. This will help you remain up-to-date with accountancy, technology and sap jobs. I will update the feeds with more websites / blogs for the benefit of Management Accountant readers.

Last but not the least, I would request you to provide a feedback about the Management Accountant Blog on this link. Click here.

Keep rating and commenting. Enjoy reading the Management Accountant Blog.

Regards,

Santosh Puthran

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I found the website www.sezwho.com as I was browsing www.blogcatalog.com. As I read about sezwho, I realised that this is website had perfect add-on to blend with the blog for readers to rate the contents. Rating and commenting on individual posts by readers of MA blog will help me to improve the contents of the blog and tune it for readers requirements.

What is SezWho ?

SezWho enables content ratings, universal contributor profiles, and reputation-weighted content discovery to be added to blogs, forums, message boards, user reviews, or any other place where readers and contributors interact. SezWho works with most social media platforms and it does not replace the site.s comment system or host any site content.

Readers can discover relevant and credible content, contributors gain a web-wide recognition for their efforts, and site owners can drive traffic while engaging their community.

I have been reading the book “Cultivating a cool career - 52 brilliant ideas for reaching the Top” by Ken Langdon. It is very well written book with 52 brilliant ideas on how to progress in your career.

Are some of Ken Langdon’s ideas relevant in blogging and social networking? Lets find out …

Idea 1: Face it, you are you and they are them

Take a positive, practical and sceptical attitude to your professional network. Don’t expect everyone in the network to notice you unless you start demonstrating that you have something better to offer them. Focus your blog on a niche area.

Idea 3: Make good suggestions loudly

At any point in the chaos, an opportunity can arise for you to make a sensible suggestion. You should actively seek them out and grab such opportunities. Read newspapers or internet articles that affect your profession. Send a reply with a copy on your blog.

Idea 12: Please Sir, can I have some more

To look for avenues to generate income is one of the key factors that motivate blogging and social networking. The more you start focussing on it, I bet, you will have a lot to learn from it. Look for the ways to monetise your blog and widen your social network. Warning: It is infectious !!!

Idea 13: Go on, give them a shock

Your network may consist of people who are working in different levels in organisations. As part of your campaign to gain high exposure, take any opportunity you can to introduce new information. If you surprise your network with new things, your blog will gain a dedicated readership.

Idea 14: Send an inside salesperson

Your blog is a selling document and the product it is selling is YOU.

Idea 26: What goes around comes around

Most people start networking when they are unhappy with their career. Too late! Put your network consisting of contacts to work at all times. You never know when someone you used to know comes around again.

Idea 40: Be a dedicated follower of fashion

There is a delicate balance. So look around! What is the current trend relevant to your network?Start blogging on the topics of interest and current events.

Idea 46: Of course it’s risky

You may wonder, if I start a blog whether I will have a time to continue writing. Or whether I will have sufficient readers to my blog. Element of risk….but if something is not risky… where is the challenge and fun ?!!

The End ….. Or is it a new beginning ?

The book has 52 brilliant ideas to boost your career. I recommend you to read it and please do share your views with me.

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I have been stumbling upon good sites for the benefit of the readers of Management Accountant Blog. I happened to meet Mr. Murthy from Rajahmundry, AP. I liked the websites he had stumbledupon and submitted reviews on a couple of posts and so I spoke to him.

To my surprise, he volunteered to help me and provide me with a couple of tips for my blog. We chatted on messenger for more than 2 hours and his tips were very helpful. I hope this helps you too.

1. Layout of the Blog should be simple. Fonts matter!!! Accountants like reading small fonts (may be because we are interested in details and numbers.)
2. Create and promote your profile on http://www.linkedin.com/ , http://www.spock.com/ and http://www.stumbledupon.com/ The profiles will help you network with right people and build up your network. Professional networking sites like linkedin help you immensely.
3. Search Optimisation Tips: Use search optimization to drive internet traffic to your website. Read more

His advice was very helpful and you must have noticed the change on my blog. Currently I am working my profile on http://www.spock.com/Santosh-Puthran-jKkU14H and sending invites to people who are in my address book.

Spock is a very powerful internet tool. Even if you have not created your profile on spock, it will recognise you from bio pages, social networks, news sites, blogs or directories. Take for e.g. Bill Gates, Ratan Tata, Tony Blair, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama or Manmohan Singh.

Spock lets you determine where people can find you on the internet. When you sign up for Spock you can claim your search results and shape what information people see. Plus, when there is new information about you on the internet, Spock sends you an alert so you are always up to date. Signing up is free and easy - just click here.

How do I claim a search result?

To claim a search result on Spock, click “Claim Your Search Result” on the page. When you have successfully claimed your search result on Spock, it will be merged with your current search result, and will be tied to your Spock account.

I was pleasantly surprised when I saw my profile on Spock and I claimed it.

As a professional, how should I use professional networking tools?

1. Linkedin and Spock will help you build up your professional network. Companies are reluctant to spend on advertising for any vacancies or professional work. Virtual networking will help you to progress in your career by connecting to the right people. Spock will help you link all your profiles and websites together. This will help people know you and your work.
2. Plaxo : http://www.plaxo.com/ is a contact address management tool which is integrated with Outlook and Linkedin. You update your info, your friends update theirs, and everyone stays in touch! You should sync your mobile phone with Outlook to have your contacts handy. You never know when opportunities strike.
3. StumbleUpon: Use stumbleupon to review good sites on the internet. You will always find people to subscribe to your feeds on stumbleupon if you are stumbling on good sites. Search your name on http://www.google.com/ and see the results. This will give an indication whether you are known on the internet. Then check whether you are linked to the professional network.
4. Google Reader: I have found www.google.com/reader very useful to keep myself updated when I subscribe to feeds of good websites. You will always notice the word “RSS” or “Atom” on a website. Click it and subscribe to the updates from the website.
5. Blog: I would always recommend you have your own blog to share professional updates or participate by commenting on websites or blogs. This will help people in your profession to know about you. The accountants who are in practise should always have their website and should blog or comment on important updates in business or taxation. This will help them to be known in business circles in the industry.

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