Saturday, January 29, 2011

Check out this Map: Academia meets $ cost averaging

This post is an excerpt from Interactive Map: Return on Educational Investment.
Interactive Map: Return on Educational Investment

To spark a national dialogue about educational productivity, we've attempted to evaluate the return on investment (ROI) of almost every major school district in the country. By productivity, we mean how much learning a district produces for every dollar spent, after controlling for factors such as cost of living and students in poverty. Use the map to see how each district performs and click on the tabs to toggle between our three different approaches. We call them Basic ROI, Adjusted ROI, and Predicted Index. Click here for our methodology and here for additional instructions on how best to use the site.

Click here for the map.

Thursday, January 27, 2011

WHOA: Quickbooks online = 1/3 US GDP

This post is an excerpt from Infographic: QuickBooks Online Has Processed $15 Trillion.
This post is an excerpt from Infographic: QuickBooks Online Has Processed $15 Trillion.
Believe it or not, QuickBooks Online has been in operation for an entire decade. To celebrate, Intuit published an infographic, which visually breaks down some of the Web-based accounting software's vital stats.

In ten years, QuickBooks Online has processed $15 trillion in revenue for its small and medium-sized business customers. That's equivalent to one third of the gross domestic product of the United States.