Latest Articles
Gopinathan is a business writer with decades of executive and business experience. An outline of his background is below.
Training:
- Qualified as a professional accountant in 1964
- Passed a post-professional management accounting exam in 1975
- Completed a course in computer programming in 1984
- Completed a one-year program in Advanced Management in 1986. The program was designed by Mewes System, Frankfurt, and advocated a strategy of identifying and focusing on current growth bottleneck for business success.
Career:
- Chief accountant of a small steel fabrication company - 1965 - 69
- Tax consultant/public auditor with a firm of public accountants - 69 - 75
- Senior internal auditor with a large railway organization - 75-78
- Special officer conducting management audits for a business group that owned several manufacturing units producing different products - 79-85
- Independent computer applications developer - 1986-1996
Post-Retirement:
- Picked up HTML and CSS around 2000
- Developed a hobby website on human social behavior, that achieved a Google PR of 7, and was sold at good profit (to a businessperson who just wanted the Google PR)
- Researched small business support scenarios in US, Canada, UK, Australia and New Zealand with a view to writing on current business development practices
- Presently focuses on business writing for own websites and for other webmasters