Jon, ask ND. He mocked my blondeness in the back of the trolley where he thought I couldn't hear, forgetting I have teacher!hearing.
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F2F 3: Who's Bringing the Guacamole?
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Jon was picking on you Kristin about...something, I'm not sure what now, and I made a comment along the lines of, "Hey, be nice, she's blonde!"
Yeah--funny how I knew who it was without even looking!
("I heard that! That has to be Drew!")
See, Drew had to have been the kid who caught crap for that in class all the time. 90% of the time, it was a fair cop, but that 10% really burns.
t project much? Nah.
Yeah, it kinda comes with the territory. Calling my name is pretty much the easy guess.
Actuaries don't guess.
S'true. In the words of Dilbert, the only sensible way to make business decisions is to pluck numbers out of the air, call them assumptions, and calculate the net present value.
Of course, you have to use the right discount rate, otherwise it's meaningless.
It was actuaries that invented NPV? I hate you all.
It was actuaries that invented NPV?
I think the answer is "no." Actuaries do things like calculating NPV, except they incorporate probabilities of future events, like, say, someone dying in the case of a stream of retirement payments.
Using it is bad enough. Who made it up?
It's just a commonly used accounting... thingie. So I imagine it's been around for a long time.
What's so hard about NPV calculations, anyway? NPV and related functions are built into all spreadsheets and financial calculators. Is it comming up with the values you're gonna use in the NPV calculations?