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Exactly. Parent's comment is only meaningful if you completely ignore paying workers which seems pretty relevant if you're going to be talking about layoffs. I
by time_to_smile 4y ago
Exactly. Parent's comment is only meaningful if you completely ignore paying workers which seems pretty relevant if you're going to be talking about layoffs.
I've found a lot of tech workers (including myself) really need to learn how to read an earnings statement. Coursera has an excellent Intro to Financial account course [0] that I've found very helpful in understanding what's really happening at these places.
0. https://www.coursera.org/learn/wharton-accounting https://www.coursera.org/learn/wharton-accounting
- senko 4y agoAlso, Aswath Damodaran has (among loads of other teaching material) a crash course into accounting just enough to get by when reading financial statements: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jbp3-AU9v_g&list=PLUkh9m2BorqmKaLrNBjKtFDhpdFdi8f7C https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jbp3-AU9v_g&list=PLUkh9m2Bor...
- Moose_the_Goose 4y agoYeah, I'm pretty thankful for my 4 year technical program for having us do a couple of business course. One which was accounting and the majority of the work was the teacher walking us through reading financial statements of public companies.