Chapter 1 - Solutions Overview: Problem Length {S} [M] 1.{S}(i) Problem #s 1 to 23 24 Short-term lenders are concerned primarily with liquidity. Accounting standards would focus primarily on near-term cash flows and might include cash flow forecasting. Performance reporting would likely emphasize cash-based measures. (ii) Long-term equity investors are primarily concerned with the earning power of the firm. Income measurement would be the focus of standards for such users. (iii)Tax authorities
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engagement of Sheila and Gerald. Even though everything seems fine‚ there are a few signs that not everything is perfect; Mr Birling is a bit too anxious impress Gerald‚ Eric seems rather nervous and Sheila is half-joking‚ half-serious to Gerald about last summer. Even though Mr and Mrs Birling are happy about the engagement‚ Priestley gives us hints that The Crofts disapprove of the marriage as they weren’t at The Birlings’ dinner and Gerald’s mother feels that Gerald might have done better for
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Goole‚ who arrives by the Birling family‚ who is celebrating Sheila’s engagement to Gerald Croft. He tells about Eva Smith’s suicide. After lots of questions it turns out that they are all more or less responsible for this tragically death and after the inspector left they find out that he wasn’t a real inspector and that no girl died. The play opens with the engagement celebration Sheila Birling and Gerald Croft. It all takes place in the dining room of the Birlings‚ near Brumley. The family is
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closely associated with middle class England‚ it is also used by Priestley‚ I believe‚ as a representation of so-called polite’ society. At the beginning of the play‚ the dining room protects the family against the outside world: the Birlings and Gerald Croft are in the
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I know – I’m talking too much.’ ‘perhaps we may look forward to a time when Crofts and Birlings are no longer competing but are working together’ ‘The Germans don’t want war’ ‘unsinkable‚ absolutely unsinkable’ ‘mixed up together like bees in a hive’ ‘community and all that nonsense’ ‘a man has to mind his own business and look out for himself and his own.’ ‘I know the Brumley police officers pretty well’ ‘This is Gerald Croft‚ the son of Sir George Croft’ ‘the wretched girl’s suicide’ ‘she’d had a l
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An Inspector Calls is a play set in 1912. In the play‚ Gerald and Sheila are enjoying an engagement party when intrudes a ‘police inspector’ who reveals that a lower class woman drank disinfectant and died. The inspector gradually reveals that every member of the family plays a part in the girl’s death. What is important about this play‚ and at first seems irrelevant‚ is that it is set in 1912. What must be remembered is that today if a young woman was struggling with the dilemmas that Eva Smith
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Sheila is engaged to be married to Gerald Croft of Crofts Limited. She comes from a middle class family however her fiancée is of a higher class then herself. Her traits are depicted early on in the play‚ as she is described at the beginning as “a pretty girl in her early twenties‚ very pleased with life and rather excited”. Although she is described to be “very pleased with life” at her engagement dinner she shows that she has suspicions as she mentions how Gerald never came near her last summer‚
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individual characters role in Eva’s death for Sheila getting her fired from her last steady job and Arthur Birling caring to much about “lower costs and higher prices” than his workers welfare. Goole is very clear when informing the Birlings and Gerald Croft of the way he like to “go to Work”! He states he will use “one line of inquiry” at a time. He feels to do otherwise would result in a “muddle”. Certainly his way of investigation highlights his polar opposite opinion to Arthur Birling whereas he
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be to her nearest relative or to Gerald Croft. Write - as you imagine Eva would have done - the letter and diary entries (between 1910 and 1912) for the key events in her life‚ from her starting to work for Birling & Co. to her suicide. Year and month What happens September 1910 Eva sacked by Birling & Co. December 1910 Eva employed by Milwards. Late January 1911 Eva sacked by Milwards. March 1911 Eva becomes Gerald’s mistress. Early September 1911 Gerald breaks off the affair. Eva leaves
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writer sets the scene very clearly‚ making sure he gets the message across that they are a well off family. The atmosphere at the start of the play is happy and cheerful as they are all celebrating Gerald and Sheila’s engagement‚ we can tell they were happy because the stage directions tell us Gerald and Mrs. B were “smiling” at times and Sheila was being “half serious half playful. The stage directions at the start of the play also tell us that Mr. Birling is a “heavy looking‚ rather portentous
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