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Assignments 1
You will explore career opportunities through two certifications available in in the field of accounting.
These extra credit assignments are due in Unit 3 with the unit exam.
1 - Certified Public Accountant (CPA)
Why Accounting
Answer the following questions:
1 What career opportunities are available as a CPA?
2 What skills does a CPA need?
3 What is the salary range for a CPA?
4 How does one become a CPA?
2 - Certified Managerial Accountant (CMA)
Select CMA Certification, and then, Become a CMA
1 What career opportunities are available as a CMA?
2 What skills does a CMA need?
3 What is the salary range for a CMA?
How does one become a CMA? For this extra credit opportunity, you will investigate three major authority figures in the United States in regards to financial accounting. Using the links provided, read to discover information, write your responses to the questions in a Word document, and submit your responses.
Assignments 2
1 - Securities Exchange Commission (source: BYP4-5 of Kimmel textbook)
What we do
(Links to an external site.)
Answer the following questions:
1 What event spurred the creation of the SEC? Why was the SEC created?
2 What are the five divisions of the SEC? Briefly describe the purpose of each.
3 What are the responsibilities of the chief accountant?
2 - Financial Accounting Standards Board (source: BYP7-5 Kimmel textbook). The FASB is a U.S. private organization established to improve accounting standards and financial reporting. The FASB conducts extensive research before issuing a "Statement of Financial Accounting Standards," which represents an authoritative expression of generally accepted accounting principles.
FASB About Us
a What is the mission of the FASB? (Hint: Select Facts about FASB.)
b How is a standard created? (Hint: See Standard Setting Process.)
c Describe the make-up of the board members. (Hint: Select Board Members.)
3 - Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) (source: PYP7-6 Kimmel textbook.) The PCAOB was created as a result of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. It has oversight and enforcement responsibilities over CPA firms in the United States.
Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB)
a What is the mission of the PCAOB?
b .Briefly summarize its responsibilities related to enforcement.
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Describe the four primary organizational structures
: For each structure/model, select a company that uses one of the structures/models, and discuss the reasons why the company selected that approach based on the product or service that they market (e.g., commodity versus luxury).
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Compute the cm ratio and the break-even point in balls
: Compute the the degree of operating leverage at last year's sales level. Compute the CM ratio and the break-even point in balls. Compute the degree of operating leverage.
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Evaluate the infrastructure of the target countries
: Discuss cultural issues regarding education practices of which EduTot's marketing and technical teams need to be aware if they will be doing business in the selected countries.
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Prepare a perceptual map for your chosen product
: Prepare a perceptual map for your chosen product/brand and using a minimum of seven competitors, rank each product/brand on the two variables based on how they are positioned in the consumers' minds.
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What career opportunities are available as a cpa
: What career opportunities are available as a CPA? What skills does a CPA need? What is the salary range for a CPA? How does one become a CPA? - Certified Managerial Accountant (CMA)
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Salary and an opportunity to earn
: Under what circumstances would you expect a job applicant to accept an offer of a low base salary and an opportunity to earn commission over one with a higher base salary and no commission potential?
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Why must the marketer be concerned with both the affective
: Do you agree with the statement that "brands are learned behaviors" (discussed in the 1st recorded lecture on the book "Unconscious branding")? Why yes or why no? Please discuss the implications for marketers.
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Question regarding the knapsack cryptosystem
: Suppose that for the knapsack cryptosystem, the super-increasing knapsack is (3,5,12,23) with n=47 and m=6. a. Give the public and private keys. b. Encrypt the message M=1110 (given the binary). Give your result in decimal.
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Create an organizational chart that shows the modules
: If you have high-speed Internet access, you can to look in the Web Gallery, which is more extensive than the Local Gallery.
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