A Different Perspective
Expertise can mean multi-dimensional thinking
With an appropriate foundation, the blog and videos below can make you think differently about business systems, where they are going, and what the business benefits will be through innovation.
Videos and Posts
Scores of blog entries with accompanying videos below will challenge your understanding of business ledgers
Series
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Full List of Posts on Expert Topics
Business Events and Measurement
This video was released without a corresponding Linkedin Blog Entry. [...]
Business Events and Tranparency
This video was released without a corresponding Linkedin Blog Entry. [...]
The Big Idea: Eliminate Posting
This video was released without a corresponding Linkedin Blog Entry. [...]
The Daily Financial Cycle
Check out a new Financial System video on The Daily [...]
Data Warehouse vs. Finance System
In this week's video I describe the differences between a [...]
Metric Engine and the Chart of Accounts
Describes a key data concept in structured, quantitative reporting: the [...]
Metric Engine and Step-ups
Step-ups are a type of balance that are very flexible [...]
The Power of Step-ups
Describes how step-ups can be very powerful in building a [...]
Metric Engine and a Detailed Identifier
This week's video describes what might be called an "Arrangement [...]
Metric Engine, Interim Reporting and Temporal Events
This week's video discusses an exception to the general rule [...]
Special Videos: A Cartoon about Business Systems
This week I'm releasing three videos at once, a historical [...]
A Conversation with Richard K. Roth
This week's episode is an actual conversation with Richard K. [...]
Impediments to a Metric Engine
This week's video discusses why more flexible reporting engines, particularly [...]
Continued Impediments to a Metric Engine
This week's video continues the discussion of why more flexible [...]
Risk Data Requirements and Data Supply Chains
This week's episode describes the intersection of Risk and Financial [...]
Management Reporting and Customer Profitability, and Data Supply Chains
This week's episode describes the intersection of Management Reporting or [...]
Data Supply Chain Layers
This week's episode discusses Business Event Capture, Post and Store, [...]
Temporal Events, Posting and Data Supply Chains
This week's episode discusses temporal or time based business events, [...]
Details on Temporal Events in Data Supply Chains
This week's episode covers additional details on temporal or time [...]
Data Supply Chain Scope
This week's episode defines a data supply chain scope, or [...]
Lengths of Data Supply Chains
This week's episode discusses the lengths of data supply chain, [...]
Step-ups in a Data Supply Chain
This week's episode outlines how step-ups can be used in [...]
Blockchains and Data Supply Chains
This week's episode discusses how the objectives of a consolidated [...]
Data Discovery: The Requirements are in the Data
This week's episode discusses what the phrase "The Requirements are [...]
A Conversation with Jeff Wolfers
A conversation with Jeff Wolfers, a senior executive in IT [...]
Financial Services Subledgers and the Instrument Ledger
This week's episode outlines how subledgers, particularly in financial services, [...]
Fintech and Personal Financial Management
Third in a series of five episodes describing Fintech and [...]
Fintech and True Community Banking
This week's episode is fourth in a series of five [...]
Fintech, Blockchain and the Instrument Ledger
Last in a series of five episodes describing Fintech, blockchain [...]
Consolidated Data Supply Chain Architecture Overview
This week's episode begins a series on the Consolidated Data [...]
Interface Layer of a Consolidated Data Supply Chain Architecture
This week's episode discusses the Interface layer of the Consolidated [...]
Expense Sub-ledger Architecture and a Consolidated Data Supply Chain
This week's episode discusses the Expense Subledger layer of the [...]
The GL in the Consolidated Data Supply Chain Architecture
This week's episode focuses on the General Ledger of the [...]
Calc Engines in the Consolidated Data Supply Chain Architecture
This week's episode covers the Calculation Engine area of the [...]
Reporting Layer of the Consolidated Data Supply Chain Architecture
This week's episode focuses on the Reporting layer of the [...]
Support Functions in the Consolidated Data Supply Chain Architecture
Discusses the Support Functions area of the Consolidated Data Supply [...]
Code Sets in the Consolidated Data Supply Chain Architecture
This week's video outlines code set considerations within the Consolidated [...]
A Conversation with Amit Trehan
This week's episode is a conversation with Amit Trehan, a [...]
Post Reductionism and Financial Services
This week's episode discusses how organization of IT systems based [...]
A Conversation with Mauricio Magaldi Suguihura
This week's Conversation with Kip is an actual conversation with [...]
The Coming Social Commerce Platform Data Structures
This week's episode starts a series of videos discussing the [...]
Blockchain, Credibility and the Coming Social Banking Platform
This week's episode builds on the idea of how Blockchain [...]
Blockchain and the Social in the Coming Social Banking Platform
This week's episode contrasts what can be done in social [...]
Blockchain and the Coming Social Commerce Platform
This week's episode discusses commerce in coming Social Banking Platform, [...]
Financial Transactions in the Coming Social Commerce Platform
This week's episode of my vlog notes that all financial [...]
Blockchain and the Next Generation ERP Systems
This week's episode of my vlog discusses how Blockchain functionality [...]
Analytics, Blockchain and the Coming Social Commerce Platform
This week's episode points out that Analytical processes start with [...]
Blockchain, Metric Engines and the Coming Social Commerce Platform
In many of my earliest videos (and actually in a [...]
Instrument ID and the Coming Social Commerce Platform
This week's episode is the final in a series of [...]
Customer Profitability: A Conversation with Ewan Puckle Hobbs
For the last five years, I've talked about issues I [...]
Apache Spark IO and Index Access
In the next three week's episodes of Conversations with Kip, [...]
Apache Spark Parallelism and Financial Analytics
This week we continue the Apache Spark usefulness and limitations [...]
Apache Spark Transaction Generation and Balance Posting
This week's episode of Conversations with Kip concludes our discussion [...]
Balances are the Inventory of Finance
Two decades ago, manufacturers learned that by moving to just-in-time [...]
A Quantitative-Cognitive Architecture
Besides the recent trend of Blockchain, another major current theme [...]
Conversation with Randall: History of Geneva and SAFR
This week's episode is a conversation with the Chief Architect [...]
Social Benefits of Trustworthiness
To many, trustworthiness seems pretty old fashioned; so old that [...]
Social Risk Pools and Fintech
Our last conversation introduced the idea that trustworthiness generates the [...]
Social Currencies: Based on Social Trust
Two weeks ago I discussed Trust as a measure of [...]
Social Commerce and Financial Information
I've discussed Trust as a measure of efficiency, Social Commerce [...]
A Conversation with Alex Hume
This week's episode of Conversations with Kip is a conversation [...]
Improved Financial Reporting: A 30 Year Problem for me
As I approach two years of my vlog, I thought [...]
A Look at Luca Pacioli’s “Summa de Arithemtica”
Today's episode gives a view at the number of pages [...]
The Three Books of Bookkeeping
Luca Pacioli described three books to be used in bookkeeping [...]
Pacioli and Blockchain
This vlog episode connects Pacioli's comments on reconciling multiple books [...]
The Day Book in Historical Accounting
This week's episode takes a deeper look at the Day [...]
The Journal in Historical Accounting
This week's episode examines the second book of historical bookkeeping, [...]
The Ledger: The Last Book of Bookkeeping
This week we examine the last book of historical bookkeeping, [...]
Historical Accounting’s View of Blockchain Ledgers
In the final segment of the Historical Accounting Series, today's [...]
A Major Driver of Finance Costs: Reconciliation
Today's episode discusses a major cost driver for finance departments, [...]
Finance Costs: Data Fragmentation
Today we'll consider how our finance data has ended [...]
Finance Costs: Data Integration and Curation
Two weeks ago we talked about how Reconciliation drives [...]
Blockchain Gap: Liquidity Management, the Core of Banking
Banking at its core is the process of matching illiquid [...]
Blockchain Gap: Double Entry Model
Almost everyone knows that accounting deals with debits and credits; [...]
Blockchain Gap: Reporting Integration
Today's episode is in response to a question from Steven [...]
Blockchain Gap: Posting Process
We've discussed the blockchain gaps of liquidity management, double entry [...]
Blockchain Gap: Trust and Efficiency
I've taken a few weeks break from the blog, considering [...]
“Show Me the Money” with Jim Hladyshewsky
This week's episode of Conversations with Kip is a conversation [...]
Daily Financial Cycle: A Conversation with Tata Rao
This week's episode is the first of a series of [...]
Movement vs. Balances: A Conversation with Tata Rao
Today's episode is the second in a three part series [...]
Where are We Going? Final Conversation with Tata Rao
This week we'll conclude the series of conversations with Tata [...]
What is Money?
This week's episode debunks the idea that money is an [...]
Required Skill: Desire to Work on the Problem
This week I discuss the most important skill needed to [...]
A Conversation with Rakesh Kant: Right Hand Side, Left Hand Side
This week I begin a series of segments of a [...]
DNA to Solve the Problem: A Conversation with Rakesh Kant
This is the 2nd segment of a Conversation with Rakesh [...]
Human Scale of Reporting: A Conversation with Rakesh Kant
In the third segment of a Conversation with Rakesh Kant, [...]
Hardest Part of the Problem: Conversation with Rakesh Kant
Fourth segment of a Conversation with Rakesh Kant, an expert [...]
Financial System Migration Approach: A Conversation with Rakesh Kant
This is the fifth segment of a Conversation with Rakesh [...]
Quantum Benefits: A Conversation with Rakesh Kant
In this episode Rakesh Kant, an expert on financial and [...]
Shared Ledger R&D Results: A Recent Expert Review
Today I'm releasing what I think is a very comprehensive [...]
Specific Inventory, Time and Balances
Some ledgers track specific inventory, specific items. This is particularly [...]
Blockchain, Trust and Efficiency
Currencies are interlinked with trust, and always have been. Trusted [...]
Simple Financial System Proof of Concept
In order to make my vlog and blog more useful, [...]
The Problem with Financial Systems: An Overview
This week I release a discussion I had on the [...]
Computing Trends and Financial Systems
This week's episode of Conversation with Kip discusses historical trends [...]
An Approach to Legacy System Analysis
Understanding tabulating system principles can be very powerful in analyzing [...]
Value of Consumer Financial Data
This week's Conversation with Kip discusses the value of financial [...]
Our Need for New Financial Systems
This week's conversation likens James Madison's work prior to the [...]
Estimates of Chart of Account Elements
Dr. William McCarthy recently asked me, "Can you guess for [...]
Who’s Invited to Innovate?
This week let's discuss the innovation process. I've found that [...]
Teacher-Student Interactions: A Conversation with Dr. Eric Denna
Today is the 200th Episode of Conversations with Kip. As [...]
Taking a Risk: Conversation with Eric Denna Part 2
Second in our series of a conversation with Dr. Eric [...]
Innocence as a Virtue, or the Five Questions: Conversation with Eric Denna Part 3
In today's segment of my conversation with Dr. Eric Denna, [...]
Do vs. Should: Eric Denna's CIO Questions
This week's episode of Conversations with Kip continues with Dr. [...]
Be a Learner
In this episode, Eric shares one of his favorite quotes, [...]
Financial System Changes: Conversation with Eric Denna Part 6
Continuing my conversation with Dr. Eric Denna, in this episode [...]
Pressure to Change: Conversation with Eric Denna Part 7
Today's conversation is the last in a series with Dr. [...]
Sharealedger.org: My Report to Dr. Bill McCarthy on REA Progress
Last week I was invited to be a guest lecturer [...]
Innovation Theater as Opposed to Real Innovation
An actual security expert one time described much of what [...]
Introduction to FPEM: Financial Period End Management
Over the last six months I've worked with a new [...]
Universal Ledger POC Results: Potential Infrastructure Software
In the spring of 2019 I undertook a study of [...]
The Value of Data Part 1: Business Functionality
Optimizations verses Functionality An expert recently said to me that [...]
The Value of Data Part 2: The Data Supply Chain
In the previous post, The Value of Data Part 1: [...]
Metric Engine Step-Up: A Swimming Pool Example
A couple of years ago a friend was continuing to [...]
Data Models Matter in Financial Reporting
On a large project one time a CFO had heard [...]
Do Sub-Ledger Balances Add Up to GL Balances?
Often discussions with others result in going back to the [...]
Outlandish Prediction: Demise of the G/L
This week's video makes an outlandish prediction: that in the [...]
The Mainframe, Open Source And Renewal of Financial Systems
This week's episode of Conversations with Kip goes more to [...]
Introduction to GenevaERS Open Source Project
This episode of Conversations with Kip gives an introduction to [...]
Data Quality Questions
Dillon Pappenfuss of Financial Executives International, asked me a set [...]
The Mainframe, Open Source and Renewal of Financial Systems
I was asked to do a presentation for the [...]
FS Finance System Transformation Plan Part 1: Source Systems
Transforming existing financial services financial reporting applications is very [...]
Finance Transform in Financial Services: Part 2 Platform Considerations
The second in a series of videos about financial [...]
Finance Transform in Financial Services: Part 3 Data Considerations
The third in a series of videos about financial [...]
BSV Blockchain Scale and Performance
I have recently become more deeply involved in the [...]
A Conversation with Neil Beesley, an Assembler Developer
Through a most of my career I have been [...]