User Comments - pretzellogic

Posted on: Audit

just curious, since this is an auditing financial statements lesson, if anyone is aware of the differences between Chinese Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) and US GAAP.  And if so, what are some of the Chinese terms for those differences/explanations?

Posted on: Office Christmas Party

In the US, you can buy a bit of rum-spiked eggnog at a grocery store, or the liquor store, I forget.  I suppose rum-spiked eggnog is for sale at Jenny Lou's in Beijing, but i'm not sure.

Posted on: Office Christmas Party

wow, whiskey in eggnog.  Cpod is hardcore. I've only done rum.

Oh, is it just Americans that do eggnog? I'm going to find out that this is something Australians,English, Canadians, and other English speakers never heard of?

Posted on: Introduction to Pinyin

FWIW, I found out the same thing that pinyin is based on cyrillic sounds about a year ago.  So I asked a native Russian speaker to pronounce some of the pinyin to see if she could pronounce Chinese pinyin better than mine naturally as a native english speaker.

Her pronounciation was terrible.

Of course, this is only a statistically significant sample size of 1.  Cpod is giving us plenty of mp3s to listen to, but given Cpod leads us to water, but doesn't make us drink, I would be interested to hear if anyone is using pinyin-only to learn mandarin. 

Posted on: Starting a Company in China

Positique,

IP Related.  Interesting that you're doing it in China. 

And yes, being transparent, I have 1 or 2 or 50 mp3s from Walt and Don. I've even seen them in concert.  Never thought that would happen. I guess it make 3 Steely Dan fans on this website, but who's counting?

Posted on: 谋杀案4

I don't know if in a real Chinese court they say this, but on American legal TV dramas, the lawyers are always saying stuff like, "I object!" "Objection!!" "Overrulled", "Sustained" and so on.  I take it from this script also that there's no bloody glove, and attorneys that say stuff like, "If it doesn't fit, you must acquit".

Posted on: A Chinese Bachelor Party

The next lesson in this series needs to be called, "the Booty Call".

Posted on: Personal Ad

I'm sure you've been told, "just be yourself".  There are many reasons why you should do this, but one that might resonate with you is that if you do the work with trying to be what you think he wants, then what happens is that you start realizing that after awhile, he doesn't appreciate what you've done for him, and that will disappoint you.

Posted on: Starting a Company in China

Positique,

May I ask what venture you've started?

Posted on: Starting a Company in China

Hi christine30550,

Thanks for that input.  Sounds like the US more and more, not that i'm totally familiar with setting up a business from the ground up. Curious as to how long it took you to go through the process from start to finish.

Hi tvan,

If I understand you correctly, I was really just trying to understand the costs involved in China, and if it was cheaper than a figure I casually had in the US for starting a business.  when christine30550 brought up the idea of registered capital, I think that's also in line with what the US requires. I haven't done the google search for this only because i'm casually interested. 

I agree with roscovanbasten in that most ventures really have significant challenges around execution, less so niche finding/building (although that helps in some industries more than others).  What i'm casually starting to sense is that from a regulatory sense, the structure of the organizational set-up for a corporation in China is similar to the US (forms to complete, lawyers to hire, money to fund, etc). It's easy to see a need, but it's harder to economically and consistently profitably fill that need, whether in China or the US or worldwide.