u/essentialaccount

I purchased a Fairphone 6 a few weeks ago in a carrier store in Belgium, and had the carrier unlock the phone. The phone feels incredibly light and the soft-touch plastic is nice, but feels extremely cheap relative to the Pixel a series I have used through several generations.

My initial opinions are not positive. The phone stutters and is noticeably slower than my several year old, midrange Pixel 7a despite being twice as expensive and several years newer. I expected that paying the substantial price premium for the Fairphone would at least provide me performance parity with the previous midrange phones I used, and allow me to support a mission I believe in.

I want to support a European brand and an environmentally conscious mission, but the product needs to be functional, and I am sad to say it really isn't. Apps crash, the phone stutters and most of the features feel extremely subpar. Haptics are bad, audio quality is bad, the camera is bad, and while none of these make the phone impossible to use, it does make it disappointing at €600.

I work for a medium sized manufacturer in the United States and the company would like me to start developing accountancy and compliance skills as a precondition for promotion. The company has offered to pay for my study but we are a low margin industry and so the amount available for education would be low. It is relevant that I was a lawyer in another jurisdiction, and have a degree of confidence in my ability to learn most of the the regulatory compliance requirements, but I am understudied in the financial aspects.

Considering that, I believe self-study would be a solution. Are there any recommendations for foundational works which I can read? Otherwise, any study programs which are of real value, rather than a way to separate me from my money?