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I had a couple more hours in Vienna on Wednesday before coming home. Unfortunately, it was raining. That didn’t stop me though! First stop was to buy an authentic Sacher Torte. Apparently it is one of the most famous foods in Vienna. We’ll share it tonight as a family. It had better be good, becauseContinue reading “Vienna, Day 3”

Did you know that in German, Vienna is spelled Wien? I had a great visit at the Vienna University of Economics and Business. Big thanks to Christoph Feichter for inviting me and Kate Patterson for organizing the visit. I presented a new paper. The paper is about how being over or under a time budgetContinue reading “Vienna, Day 2”

I flew direct: Eindhoven to Vienna. The early flight meant I made it before noon. After a quick train ride to the city I checked into my hotel. Then I did the typical tourist thing: a Big Bus tour! I know those types of bus tours get a lot of flack for being too touristyContinue reading “Vienna, Day 1”

I’m off to Vienna for another workshop. In what seems to be my typical travel routine, I woke up at 5:10 and then biked to the train station with my suitcase on the back of my bike. I then took the 6am train. Normally I fly out of Amsterdam, but there was a direct flightContinue reading “Off to Vienna”

Linda’s cousin, Adam Arneson, had a work trip to Nijmegen. So, he came a couple of days early to hang out with us. Other than Linda’s dad, this is the first visitor we’ve had, so it was fun playing host for a couple of days! We picked him up at the Schipol (Amsterdam) airport andContinue reading “Playing host”

There’s a Dutch saying, “There’s nothing past Groningen.” Groningen is basically the tip of civilization as far as the rest of the country is concerned. It’s at the very top of the Netherlands. I was invited to give a workshop there on March 16. It was great! For most of my other Dutch workshops I’veContinue reading “Groningen”

About a month ago (March 9-10) I went to Vallendar, Germany for the ACMAR conference. Vallendar is located on a key bend on the Rhine river, which made it a historically significant defensive point. The conference was a lot of fun. In particular, I got to meet a lot of managerial accounting researchers. In Germany,Continue reading “Vallendar, Germany”

Easter in the Netherlands is pretty similar to Easter in the US. Saturday we had a neighborhood activity with games for the kids and then an Easter egg hunt. The only real difference from the US (other than the language) was that all the kids found the eggs and then brought them and put themContinue reading “Easter”

I’m at the DARC (Dutch Accounting Research Conference) in Nijmegen. It’s a conference exclusive to people at Dutch universities. I find it interesting that even though everyone here is a professor or PhD student at a Dutch school, the conference is still in English. I’m also glad the conference is in English, so I canContinue reading “Dutch Accounting Research Conference”

I went to Washington DC for a credit union conference last week (I’m on the board of directors at our local credit union. It was fun to be back! The conference itself was great. We got to hear from some great speakers (e.g., Condoleezza Rice and Paul Ryan) in addition to some more technical sessionsContinue reading “Visiting the USA!”