My Career Choice in Accounting Introduction I didn’t really choose accounting to begin with. When I was in high school I wanted to be a vet‚ but as time went on‚ I discovered that I have the right skills to be an accountant and not to be a vet. Here is my story and how I decided upon accounting as my career of choice. As a woman‚ I was always told that I was predisposed to being bad at math. This may be why I always tried harder at math because it did not want to be pigeon holed as just another
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Multiple Choice: 1. In general terms‚ financial assets appear in the balance sheet at: a. Face value b. Current value c. Cost d. Estimated future sales value 2. Which of the following practices contributes to efficient cash management? a. Never borrow money – maintain a cash balance sufficient to make all necessary payments. b. Record all cash receipts and cash payments at the end of the month when reconciling the bank statements
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1. What are at least four depreciation methods that are available to a company? There is the Activity Method‚ Straight-line Method‚ Sum-of-the-Years’-Digits Method and the Declining-Balance Method. 2. What are the similarities and the differences? The Activity Method‚ which is also known as the variable charge or units of production method. With this method‚ we consider the productivity and not the passage of time. The life of the asset is considered by the output and the input. There
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INTRODUCTION 2. Content • Causes • Effects • Cure • Depreciation vs. devaluation * 3. Causes 1. 1.Demand Supply Rule: The value of rupee follows the simple demand and supply rule of economics. If the demand for the dollar in India is more than its supply‚ dollar appreciates and rupee depreciates 2. 2.Dollar gaining strength against the other currencies: The central banks of Eurozone and Japan are printing excessive money due to which their currency is devalued. Hence‚ making the US dollar stronger
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Depreciation Essay A method of accelerated depreciation‚ in which double the straight-line depreciation amount is taken the first year and then that same percentage‚ is applied to the un-depreciated amount in subsequent years is called double-declining-balance-method. Depreciation methods that provide a higher depreciation charge in the first year of an asset’s life and gradually decreasing charges in subsequent years are called “accelerated depreciation methods”. This may be
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is based out of a small town in Wyoming. In the process of doing so‚ TM has acquired various types of assets. Below is a list of assets acquired during 2010: Asset Cost Date Place in Service Office equipment $10‚000 02/03/2010 Machinery $560‚000 07/22/2010 Used delivery truck* $15‚000 08/17/2010 *Not considered a luxury automobile‚ thus not subject to the luxury automobile limitations During 2010‚ TM had huge success (and had no §179 limitations and Steve acquired more assets the next year to increase
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Task 1 i. After knee surgery‚ your trainer tells you to return to your jogging program slowly. He suggests jogging for 12 minute each day for the first week. Each week thereafter‚ he suggests that you increase that time by 6 minutes per day. How many weeks will it be before you are up to jogging 60 minutes per day? Solution: (12‚ 18‚ 24‚ 30…… 60) T1 = 12‚ T2 = 18‚ T3=24‚ T4 = 30‚ Tn = 60 T2 – T1 = T3 – T2 18 – 12 = 24 – 18 6 = 6 This above is arithemetic sequence. Common
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Peso Depreciation Currency Depreciation - is the loss of value of a country’s currency with respect to one or more foreign reference currencies‚ typically in a floating exchange rate system. Currencies are not equal to one another in their value and thus purchasing power. Most but not all currencies‚ can and do experience changes in their values compared to other currencies‚ this being called appreciation when their value increases and depreciation when their value decreases. Peso depreciation means
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1. The primary cause of the current system to fail is the use of a single burden rate. Burden costs of the testing rooms as well as other costs such as admin were grouped into a single cost pool and then divided by the total labor dollars. This resulted to a single burden rate of 145% of direct labor dollars (cost driver). This method is not appropriate for Seligram because the information on the case present that direct labor hours and machine hours vary by product line and activity. In addition
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behave differently. Consequently‚ it affects the organisations in terms of performance and their ability to implement Human Resource Management (HRM) internationally. Certainly‚ national culture brings some impact on International Human Resource (IHR) policies and strategies. There are several main programmes emerging inside organisations as they globalise. For instance‚ they need to recruit‚ select‚ train and develop a broader set of international employees. It includes expatriates‚ as well as frequent
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