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This makes my 100th blog post. 100 is the scroll limit for the blog, which means it may also be the printing limit (I found a website that will turn this into a book), so this needs to be my last post. I now wish I had combined a few posts earlier in the year.Continue reading “Final Post”

In the US, a bachelor’s degree is supposed to take 4 years, if the student is full-time and passes all classes. In the Netherlands, a bachelor’s degree is only supposed to take 3 years. In both the US and in the Netherlands, a master’s degree is one additional year of study. In the US, accountingContinue reading “University Degrees”

Soccer (football/voetbal) is by far the most popular sport in the Netherlands. On my bucket list was to take JJ and Timmy to a game before we left. My friend Jesse (PhD student at Tilburg, graduating this year and starting as an assistant professor at Tilburg in the fall) invites us to a N.A.C. BredaContinue reading “Voetbal”

At the end of the semester, the Tilburg accounting group interrupts one of the last sections of the master’s program to deliver ice cream! I was fortunate to be able to participate. The gift was a little bit ironic in that we interrupted a class on sustainability to deliver the ice cream. Ice cream isContinue reading “Ice cream!”

The EAA Meeting took place in Helsinki, Finland. In my last post I talked about the conference. In this one I’ll talk about the area. Most of the faculty from Tilburg went to the EAA. We were trying to figure out some fun things to do together while we were there. One colleague pushed thatContinue reading “Helsinki, Finland”

Just a heads up, this post is a little more accounting technical than most of my posts. I’ve attended the AAA (American Accounting Association) annual meeting several times. Here’s my experience, so you can understand my expectations for the EAA: The EAA annual congress was pleasantly different. Overall, I was very impressed with the EAAContinue reading “EAA”

The Netherlands have a LOT of holidays in April/May. Kind of makes for a fun couple of months. In the US, we don’t really celebrate most of these. Some places give a day off for Easter, but a lot don’t. None of the rest are celebrated. Most US states would see this as too muchContinue reading “April and May Holidays”

During the course of the year here in Tilburg, everyone has had a birthday. Timmy and I had birthdays shortly after we arrived. So, we actually had the parties in Utah with family before we came. We had a little party for Linda and another for Sarah and JJ, but all were just our family.Continue reading “Birthday Party!”

On May 11 I went to K.U. Leuven. The distance from my house to Leuven is pretty similar to the distance to Heerlen (Open Universiteit from Monday). However, Leuven is in Belgium, and international trains don’t have quite the same flexible schedule as domestic trains. So, while I was able to do the Open UniversiteitContinue reading “K.U. Leuven”

On May 8th, just a few days after my parents left, I was back to work as normal. First up was a trip to Open Universiteit in Heerlen. Open Universiteit is a bit unusual in that its focus is nontraditional students. They don’t have any in-person students (other than PhD students): everything is online. ThatContinue reading “Open Universiteit”