Richard Joel Perez Mrs.Felan English 08 September 2017 A Tale of Two Cities Report Q/A 1. What is the main idea or theme of the book? In other words, define the moral or the message of this text. Why is important that someone of your age group read this material? Choose one brief passage that seems to exemplify this idea and provide a few key details. “A Tale of Two Cities” compares the social and political events taking place in France during and before the French Revolution in the…
There are many different ways of writing, and Rhetorical analysis is one of the most helpful ways, which includes the introduction, rhetorical situation, rhetorical strategies, rhetorical appeals and the conclusion. I believe the rhetorical analysis is helpful for us because it makes us understand how the authors use this way to construct and develop a professional document to reach their writing purpose. I can learn the genre of writing in the field of accounting through writing this rhetorical…
Circuit City The Failure of Circuit City Jake Johnston Mars Hill University Abstract Circuit City started out in 1949 as “Wards Company.” Within ten years, the store brought in $1 million per year. In 1965 Wards expanded through the acquisition of other television and home appliance stores; their move of horizontal expansion helped with their success. In 1984, Wards became Circuit City Stores, Inc. and became publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange. From the year of 1949 until 2009…
GlaxoSmithKline China Bribery Scandal What Happened? GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) is a multinational pharmaceutical company. It is headquartered in Brentford, London. One of their branches is located in Shanghai, China. GSK was caught having executives in their Chinese branch illegally bribing hospitals, doctors and healthcare professionals to prescribe their drugs. Five employees, one British and four Chinese, were sentenced to jail for two years while the company was under investigation for a year.…
Problem statements There are two sets of concepts that shall not be confused: social market verse monetary market; extrinsic incentives (motivations) and intrinsic incentives (motivations). Although they are also firstly studied by psychologists, they have significant differences. The major difference between the “social market” and the “monetary market” is simple: It depends on whether or not “money” is involved. (Heyman & Ariely, 2004) In terms of our experiment, I argue that knowledge can…
6.5. FINANCIAL ANALYSIS TABLE 6.1: Differential costs associated with the year-long operation of 16 boxes. Differential costs are recurring incremental expenses incurred by Western because of Purple Recycling. Differential Cost Analysis For the year-long operation of 16 boxes Assumption Utilities Expense $0.84 USD / year / box [11] 17.07 Server Hosting Expense $50 / month [12] 600.00 Maintenance Expense $150/year/machine [13] 2,400.00 Wages Expense 10 minutes to empty each box, 4 times…
Grant Thornton's decision to completely rely on Jack Greenberg, Inc’s delivery receipts to perform the company audit is the controversial issue in the case given. It had justified that the independent auditor relied on the delivery receipts as the audit evidence based on the ‘segregation of duties’ system. The case here explained that JGI’s internal control procedures for inventory had been executed by different person as the purchasing, receiving and approving functions are performed by the…
Introduction Manufacturing companies, like Hampshire Company, rely on the costing data provided by various costing methods to determine financial successes and downfalls. “By tracking and categorizing this information according to a rigorous accounting system, corporate management can determine with a high degree of accuracy the cost per unit of production and other key performance indicators” (Kucera 2018). Therefore, Hampshire Company has requested that I calculate how traditional and…
Fungible Treasury Bills (T-Bills) Product sheet Fungible Treasury Bills (T-Bills) are government short-term debt securities issued by way of invitation to tender. A fungible security can be issued, the first time, in form of a fixed size then subsequent issues are matched. Every new security issued is attached to the previous with the same characteristics (nominal unit, maturity date, basis for interest calculation). Only rates and issuance dates change. Fungibility increases the size of…
Therefore our Cost of Excess Capacity is 235.600 (19% of Total Quality Control Costs). When we calculate assuming that there are no alternatives uses for the resources tied up in the quality control process, we are essentially stating that since we are not utilising the capacity which we paid a fixed cost for, we are incurring the cost of having it available and not using it. The inability to effectively utilise this excess capacity in another engagement demonstrates the company’s inability to…