Finance for eejits... like me!

First evening of Managing Information Resources at uni... it's good how much new information I seem to be getting exposed to, as well as getting some clarity and development on the stuff I already knew. Our assignment's going to test our ability to analyse statistics - my first idea was to prove whether or not abolishing retirement ages significantly affects an organisation's costs - through sickness, pensions, life assurance, and so on. My hypothesis would say it probably won't. I'll see what work thinks to the idea! We had something of a crash course in budgets: the difference between fixed and variable costs, turnover v income, zero point and historic budgeting and the difference between budgets and forecasts. It's all fairly basic stuff (for now), but really useful.

Just returned from the supermarket - don't tell anyone, but shopping at 10pm is a beautiful experience. Everything's self service, all the shelves are filled and the streets are calm. Not even the rain put me off filling up (no queues) and making use of that rare thing in London, a free air hose. Probably ought to grab my tea and hit the sack - got another evening of leafleting tomorrow!