For having a career in Accounting:
List the requirements and jobs skills needed to be successful.
What skills do you still need? How could you get them?
List the first steps that can lead to your long-term goals. What
job titles might you seek upon graduation? Will you need any
special certifications or qualifications at that time? If so, what
are they, and how will you attain them?
Congratulations! You have decided to leave your career as a
personal tax accountant to pursue a startup idea you have been
thinking about for a long time. You are going to launch a new app
that tracks all of your personal tax information throughout the
year, so that you don’t have to load anything come tax time. You
want this app to fully integrate with users payroll, investment
accounts, and any other system that creates tax liability. You have
validated...
After watching a movie about a young woman who quit a
successful corporate career to start her own baby food com- pany,
Julia Day decided that she wanted to do the same. In the movie, the
baby food company was very successful. Julia knew, however, that it
is much easier to make a movie about a successful woman starting
her own company than to actu- ally do it. The product had to be of
the highest quality, and Julia had...
David Perkins left a successful career in the NFL after two head
injuries. His doctors recommended for his safety, that he leave the
sport if he wanted to live past the age of 30. David, not one who
sits around without anything to do, decided to open a sports bar,
The Wing Shack. After five years, the restaurant concept gained
momentum and he was opening his fifth restaurant in the Michigan
area. David is proud to be socially responsible while...
Soon after your graduation, you would be all set for your career
path. As you have studied and learnt several investment and
portfolio related theories and concepts, you would be interested to
start investing and creating portfolio right from the beginning
phase of your career. Before you start doing so, it would be ideal
to recap those important concepts and theories. You may want to
write down those in brief especially covering the following: (a)
How do you think about...
What career plans do you have after completing your degree?
Review the mission statement of the College of Nursing and Health
Care Professions, your program of study, and the welcome message on
the college's main page of the GCU website. Discuss how the
college's mission and your program of study align with your career
plans. Formulate three personal and three professional goals that
you believe will help you successfully complete your program and
obtain the career to which you aspire.
You and your friends have decided to take a trip after the
semester ends to celebrate getting through your statistics class.
Pick a departure point from a location that is close to your
hometown (Denver, CO). You will find a list of ten different
destinations for your trip below. ). So, you should have data for
12 different destination points. You need to collect some data
online to find the distance between cities as well as the cost of
airfare....
Assume you have $1 million now, and you have just retired from
your job. You expect to live for 20 years, and you want to have the
same level of consumption (i.e., purchasing power) for each of
these 20 years, after adjusting for inflation. You also wish to
leave the purchasing power equivalent of $100,000 today to your
kids at the end of the 20 years as a bequest (or to pay them to
take care of you).
You expect...
Imagine you have decided to change the accounting
method you chose after three (3) years in business, as you have
discovered that another method would be more advantageous from a
tax perspective. Analyze the rules regarding changes in accounting
methods and then create a table that illustrates the effect of
changing the accounting method on three (3) of your business’
unique transactions.
After graduating from this university you have decided
to establish a contractorship company to do some building
constructions. Your first job is to construct 10 similar reinforced
concrete buildings with four stories each. The total area of all
the buildings is 16,000m2 . You can find sufficient number of
formwork carpenters to erect any kind of formwork materials. On the
market both timber and steel formwork materials are
available.
•Make an analysis on which type of materials you are
going...