Notes from Doulton

If you’re preparing for Queen’s Commerce midterms, creating summary notes can feel like a productive place to start.

You work through the slides, shorten the explanations, add the formulas and organize everything by topic. A few hours later, you have a document that looks much more manageable than ...

Knowing the material and knowing how to study it are two different things.

After years of working with Queen’s Commerce students, I’ve seen how much time can go into studying without students feeling any more prepared. Sometimes the missing piece is a concept. Sometimes it’s practice. Often, it’s kno...

A quick video review of cash budgeting. Use this walkthrough to review the topic, then practise applying it to a cash budgeting question on your own.

Finance becomes a heck of a lot easier when we know how to use our financial calculator. This is a walkthrough of how to use the Queen's University recommended finance calculator (SHARP EL-738XT).

Understanding Financial Variables

Before diving into the calculator itself, let's break down the key ...

The Statement of Cash Flows is an important financial tool for assessing the health of a company. 

Are you able to actually pay your bills?

Is enough money coming in to get through the year?

Can you buy that new piece of equipment?

There are three components to a Statement of Cash Flows:

1. Cash ...

Numbers are powerful. In my Management Statistics course and my General Data Management class, I always emphasize that we are not just learning statistics. We are learning how to turn data into information and information into good decision-making. 

An election is the perfect time to put this premi...

For the past month I have been working with incoming and returning commerce students who are concerned about the transition back to in-person learning. The questions range from what skills are they missing from the past year to what to wear to class and how to take notes when there isn’t a recording...