Accounting Opening Activity

A) An accountant is a practitioner of accounting.
B) An accountants job is to analyze revenues, assets, liabilities, they are also able to calculate future cash flow fairly accurate. Then they make financial reports such as balance sheets, t-accounts, and ledger balances and report them to administrators. Most of there day is spent completing or analyzing paperwork.But communication is also necessary.
C) Auditor,Bookkeeper,Clerk,Financial Assistant, Controller
D)The merged body would have a new designation - the Chartered Professional Accountant (CPA). However, upon initial merger implementation the new designation would not take effect. New provincial legislation would have to be enacted before the new designation could be used in the marketplace, a process that would likely take several years. During this period, it was suggested that CGAs would participate in the governance of the organization, but as a minority. It is anticipated that CA members would have formed the majority of the governance group in a three-way merged organization and set the policy, governance and regulations for CGAs.

Advertisement Opening Activity

I don't really have a favorite advertisement to be honest, i think all of them are pretty boring. My favorite store is one which sells sporting equipment, i prefer those types of stores because i am a huge sports fan and i think it is important to be safe while playing any sport. The soft drink that i like the best is Crush soda's, i prefer Crush instead of other soft drinks because they have a variety of tastes unlike most pop which has a normal flavor and a diet flavor, and i like all the kinds they have.

Opening Activity October 26th.

Things that are working well is that we agree with each other. I wish that everyone in my group was more cooperative, and willing to contribute to the work instead of one person doing most of the work. I don't think i can work any better then i possibly am right now except for the fact that i allow my group to sit there and let my group do whatever they want. I can encourage my group to work better by being more strict and bossy with them and hoping that they listen to me and not hate me for doing so. 

Businesses Bad Reputation

Businesses can end up with a bad reputation if they do something that is not ethical or something that a certain group of people disagree with like using animal fur, sweatshops etc. Bad reputations are not always the businesses fault it could come from an activist group such as PETA or it could be that a certain country doesn't allow products that have animal furs. If a business has a bad reputation they could do things like donate a certain amount from each sale to a group like WWF or give it back to the people who are buying the products in a way like weekly deals or buy one get one half off.

Justin Hall- Tipping: Freeing energy from the grid

I think that Justin Hall's ideas are pretty interesting he is saying basically that there should be a way to use our energy without harming our environment, and that there should be a way to conserve water, He made good points to back up his statements like the little child who died of thirst, plus he showed infrared devices that would allow us to save the energy that everybody in the world has to live with. If we don't start doing something about these two problems then we are going to run out of water and are not going to have any sort of energy.

Opening Activity October 20th 2011- Issac Asimov

I think that Isaac Asimov meant that you shouldn't let your morals keep you from doing what is right, like if you know that somebodies is trying to sell you an item that is stolen then you should not buy the item off of that person because if you do then you are just as guilty as they are, in that case you are supposed to say i am not going to buy this item off you and tell them the reason is because they had stolen it and you don't want to get in any trouble with the law if it does come back as stolen.

What would you do if?

This is what i would do if:

If my friend asked me to add a few extra hours for his work time sheet and i knew he didn't do the time then i would not be giving him the hours that he asked for. 

If a salesperson offered to sell me an ipod after hours for a discounted price i would probably do it but get a receipt and then show the store what this salesperson did and hopefully they would be fired.

If the teller gave me back too much money when completing a banking transaction i'd probably keep it(who wouldn't?)

Unethical and Morally Wrong Products

Some products that could be unethical and morally wrong include: Brand Name Items (Ex. Nike). I feel that it is unethical and morally wrong because they make their items in sweatshops and they don't pay their employees any where near how much they sell their items for. I find that unfair because they are the ones who are working and they are being paid next to nothing. For every one item sold, they probably have made enough money to pay everyone in at least one of their sweatshops for the whole entire month.

Inside Job Assignment

Occupy Calgary Criticisms

I think that the criticisms about the Occupy Calgary protests are pretty true not once did i hear anything distinguishing the situation in the United States compared to the one in Canada. The one in the United States is way worse then the one in Canada and by those people not showing the difference it shows that they don't really understand what is going on in our own country. Those in the top 1% in Canada make only about $180 000 compared to those in the United States that make 31 million dollars but haven't contributed anything to these protests, if they were to be like okay i am willing to pay more on my taxes then there wouldn't be as big as a problem right now. 

Career Fair

I found that most of the College's/Universities that were at the career fair were non-profit organizations.
I also found that most of them go to CALM classes, go to career fairs in order to target there people.
I didn't ask about the enrollment of the Places because there was too many of them that i was interested in seeing what they had to offer about the career's that i am interested in. Viewing those places i had a change in mind in what i want to go to college/university for.

Andrew Sheng

Andrew Sheng is part of the China Banking Regulatory Commission, Also a member of Malaysia's National Economic Action Council, he is the director at Khazanah Nasional, sits on the board of the Qatar Financial Center. Andrew Sheng is Malaysian Chinese, He left his homeland in 1965 to go to university in England, After he graduated Andrew Sheng moved to London and joined Arthur Andersen in his training to become a charted accountant. After 7 years in England he went back to Malaysia in 1972,  four years later he took up a position at Bank Negara Malaysia, where he did his first bit of work involving banking regulation. He is currently 65 years old.

Opening Activity October 12th 2011

The picture has become popular because she is one of the few people who actually agree that it's not fair that the poor people are being treated the same way as those who are rich. This picture actually surprised me because I didn't think that any of the 1% of the people who are richer would agree with the 99% of the people who aren't as rich. But maybe if one person of that small percent see that it is not fair then maybe more people will take notice and agree to do the same. There are alot of people who can afford to give away some of there money but they don't choose to.

Occupy Wall Street- 5 W's

Occupy Wallstreet is about making everything more equal, protesting against the social and economic inequalities,corporate greed and what those businesses use their money for. People who maybe protesting are those who don't have jobs, those who are in the bottom 90% of the income makers. 

This is what happened: They started protesting the fact that even though they don't make enough money why do they have to pay the same amount of taxes as a millionaire does. When they think that those who are richer should be paying more taxes. 

This is where it took place: The Occupy Wallstreet protests started in New York and has since reached over 70 different cities. 

This is when it took place: The protests started on September 17th 

This is why it took place: They feel as though it's not fair that the millionaires are paying the same percentage of taxes as those who are poorer. 

This is how it happened: The started it over social media, and the worldwide web. 

Secrets of success in 8 words

-Passion (You have to be interested in what you want to do)
-Do it for love and not for money
(Do something because you love it and not for the amount of money that you make)
-Work
-Good (you have to be good at what you are doing in order to be successful)
-Practice (Always practice no matter how good you may think you are at something)
-Focus (you have to be focused no matter what)
-Push (you have to give it a shot no matter how hard something may be to do)
-Serve(Those who are interested in your ideas)
-Persistance(Never give up on your dreams)

Advertising Opening Activity.

The definition of advertising to me is something a company does to get the attention of a certain group of people, so they can buy their products if they like it.

Give examples of good advertisements: Some examples of good advertising is when automobile companies such as Ford or Chevy have an ad saying that there cars have the most this and that and it makes people stop and say well if they have the best of this then this should be the type of car i get.

What facts or characteristics are true of good advertisements:
I think some characteristics of a good advertisement is that they have to have a clear message, The design has to be simple because people are not going to look at the ad for too long, unless it is eye catching.

Give examples of bad advertisements: 
Some examples of bad advertisements include Yahoo they just post there name on a purple background and it doesn't really say anything to those who are looking at it people who are viewing this ad would be like ''what is so good about Yahoo?'' then they would have to check it out themselves in order to see what is good about Yahoo in there opinion.

The Meeting Questions

1) We need to figure out if we are able to use the school's PA, Need to know any outstanding final expenses, Need to figure out if we are going to post the station online and at the school or just one or the other. Figure out the whole stock situation(like if we are going to sell any shares or not?) When we will hold contests, how often we will hold them. Figure out what type of music will be played.

2)  We will probably do it all together except the final outstanding expenses and the music which Brandon will do. 

3) It will be done on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday and if there is anything left to do we will finish it on Monday. 

4) We will need to talk to the office staff at the school to seek their permission to use the school's PA system.

Time 22 Minutes. 

Goal Setting- Opening Activity.

Why do you want to achieve your business goal?

I want my business to achieve it's goals because then it shows that we worked really hard and we took a lot of time to get our business out there. 

Is the business goal energizing?

I feel as though it is energizing because it's nothing over the top for the amount of money we would try to make and also i feel as though we are helping other companies out if they feel like being advertised by us. 

What will it look like when you get there?

When we get there i think that our company will be successful in achieving our goals. 

Organizational Chart

President: Samuel

VP of Human Resources Trizia
VP of Fiances Brandon
VP of IT services Samuel
VP of Marketing and Sales Brandon
VP of Productions and Operations Trizia

Job Roles

In my group I am going to be the Vice President of Fiances and Vice President of Marketing and Sales. The reason I was assigned these jobs was because I have taken Financial Management and I know how to deal with recording the info.

5 other ways to be a great leader Opening Activity.

- You must have a passion for what you are doing.
- You must be a great decision maker.
- You must be a great team builder.
- You must analyze progress.
- You must be able to hire good employees.