Accountant

Sunday, November 29, 2015

Hypertext Narrative

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It all started like this.

Today is the last day of my school. I was going to Ahuntsic College. It was a good experience, but now, all of these moments are over. I need to think further and I still don't know what to do. Choice 1: I decide to apply at McDonald’s since I don't know what to do. They hire me the next day and I feel very special. I learned very fast and there are a lot of people who like me but there are many people who dislike me too. One day, when I arrived late, some guy, with his face covered, come in the restaurant. Choice 2: After college, I plan on taking a break from school and want to go on vacation to relax with all my friends. We decide to go to Cuba for a week.

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You decided something which brought you here. Briefly say what the choice was and then develop the story some more. After reading this part, your reader will have to make another choice. Choice 1: After 6 months of work, I become a manager at McDonald’s. There are a lot of people who respect me and who listens to all I say. But then one day, I receive a letter at my desk. I open it and I see it’s blackmail. Choice 2: It's so hard, the job gives me a lot of headache. Every day, it’s like a nightmare. I can't even breath; there are a lot of impatient customers. It’s not even been one month I’m working there and I seriously want to quit. But then one day, one of my colleagues at McDonald’s wants me to join him to go in another country to start a business. He tells me that I can be rich. Choice 3: After 3 months of work at McDonald’s, I don’t feel very well. I always think that I don’t deserve this job cause it doesn’t pay well and I earn only minimum wage salary. Since there’s no call from a banking job, I plan to only stay at this job until I receive one. One day, God hears my voice and my phone rang.

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You decided something which brought you here. Briefly say what the choice was and then develop the story some more. After reading this part, your reader will have to make another choice. Choice 1: In the letter, there’s a nude picture of me. In the letter it says that I need to quit my job. I guess the one behind this letter must be my enemy. I don't what to do. Should I quit my job? Or should I try to figure out who this is and call the police? Choice 2: In the letter, it says the person wants $40000 or he or she will kill me after my shift in one week. The person even knows my car license plate and the schedule I work every day of the week.

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You decided something which brought you here. Briefly say what the choice was and then develop the story some more. After reading this part, your reader will have to make another choice. Choice 1: After taking a long time to think about what I should do, I fake quitting my job. After doing it, I see that someone at McDonald's wants to be the manager immediately. I then hire a private inspector to know the details. He is the one who sent me the blackmail message. I call the police; explain the situation and he goes in jail for 10 years. Choice 2: I still can't believe this is happening to me. I decide to quit my job. Honestly, I don't want to risk it, it’s still my reputation. So, I quit my job and go at my grandfather’s house to live while I am looking for another job.

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You decided something which brought you here. Briefly say what the choice was, provide closure, and end the story. Start again: Press here to restart.

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You decided something which brought you here. Briefly say what the choice was, provide closure, and end the story. Start again: Press here to restart.

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You decided something which brought you here. Briefly say what the choice was and then develop the story some more. After reading this part, your reader will have to make another choice. Choice 1: I refuse to give the $40 000, so on the weekend I try to sneak outside without being noticed. But then someone come fast to me with a knife; stab my stomach and then cut my throat. I bleed a lot, can't see anything. Everything is black. Choice 2: I decide to give him the money that he wants. When he comes to me, I can now see his face. I give him the money and I ask him if he wants to have a coffee. He accepts my invitation and then I bring him to police department.

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You decided something which brought you here. Briefly say what the choice was, provide closure, and end the story. Start again: Press here to restart.

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You decided something which brought you here. Briefly say what the choice was, provide closure, and end the story. Start again: Press here to restart.

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You decided something which brought you here. Briefly say what the choice was and then develop the story some more. After reading this part, your reader will have to make another choice. Choice 1: I believe my colleague and I go with him. I travel in another country; in Thailand. He brings me to a house. The place looks deserted but I don't know what else to do except trust him. Then, in the morning, I realize that I am alone and he is not there any more. I try to go outside the house but the door is locked. Choice 2: We are going to Hollywood. He makes me meet all the members of his group and then we start making a song. I am not a bad singer after all, there’s even someone interested to sign me. One day, he knocks my door while I sleep and wanted to talk with me.

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You decided something which brought you here. Briefly say what the choice was and then develop the story some more. After reading this part, your reader will have to make another choice. Choice 1: I hear a lot of cries from kids upstairs. I go upstairs; open the door, there's a lot of kids. After seeing them, I realize that I’m like one of them, a prisoner. I see a phone and take it, but the line is cut. My life is over; I don’t know what to do. I just let destiny decide. Choice 2: I wait. I don't know what for, but I am waiting. Then after 3 hours, my friend comes back with an old man. My friend looks at me and says to me that I will be really rich in the future. He shows me a lot of things.

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You decided something which brought you here. Briefly say what the choice was, provide closure, and end the story. Start again: Press here to restart.

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You decided something which brought you here. Briefly say what the choice was, provide closure, and end the story. Start again: Press here to restart.

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You decided something which brought you here. Briefly say what the choice was and then develop the story some more. After reading this part, your reader will have to make another choice. Choice 1: He thinks it would be fun that we collaborate with another singer and I agree with him. We do a lot of songs together and become very popular. People love us a lot and I become very rich. Choice 2: He wants to tell me that I should change jobs since he heard in the media that there are some people who hired someone to kill me for money. I feel so scared that I agree with him. On the same day, I buy a ticket and go back to my country. Having a new life. Starting again.

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You decided something which brought you here. Briefly say what the choice was, provide closure, and end the story. Start again: Press here to restart.

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You decided something which brought you here. Briefly say what the choice was, provide closure, and end the story. Start again: Press here to restart.

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You decided something which brought you here. Briefly say what the choice was and then develop the story some more. After reading this part, your reader will have to make another choice. Choice 1: (On-the-job-training) after talking with the one who hired me at the bank, I have my first day of training. I feel very stressed but the one who is training me is very nice to me. He gives me an apple and teaches me everything that I need to know in-depth. After a years working there, one day, I receive a call from another company. Choice 2: I can't believe that I got a job at a bank, the boss is so rude. He gives me too much job to do in one day. I have to do overtime, but he always gets mad at me if my work isn’t done, even if I stay after work trying to complete everything. Then one day, I feel so angry, I decide to take a knife and to go see him.

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You decided something which brought you here. Briefly say what the choice was and then develop the story some more. After reading this part, your reader will have to make another choice. Choice 1: On the other line, they give me an offer to be at their company and work for them. I told them to give me some time to decide. I go to talk with my boss, he tells me to stay with his company and that he will give me more advantages. I agree, with the condition that I want to take a vacation right now in compensation. Choice 2: On the other line, they ask me to give them the secret of the company since they are sworn enemies and they will give me a Ferrari if I do so. I appreciate the offer, but I record the conversation and I call my boss. My boss gives me a Mercedes for my good job and giving him proof he can use.

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You decided something which brought you here. Briefly say what the choice was, provide closure, and end the story. Start again: Press here to restart.

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You decided something which brought you here. Briefly say what the choice was, provide closure, and end the story. Start again: Press here to restart.

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You decided something which brought you here. Briefly say what the choice was and then develop the story some more. After reading this part, your reader will have to make another choice. Choice 1: One of my colleagues asks me what I am doing with a knife on the way there. I tell him that I want to cut an apple to eat. The interaction makes my focus return and instead I just write an angry letter explaining everything I feel to my boss. Choice 2: After getting there, I decide to run to him and stab him. I know what I’m doing but I can't control the fact that he treats me like a dog. I watch everyone; most of them are in shock and some others call the police. I know what’s going to happen to me but my nerves got the best of me.

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You decided something which brought you here. Briefly say what the choice was, provide closure, and end the story. Start again: Press here to restart.

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You decided something which brought you here. Briefly say what the choice was, provide closure, and end the story. Start again: Press here to restart.

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Scene 23.

You decided something which brought you here. Briefly say what the choice was and then develop the story some more. After reading this part, your reader will have to make another choice. Choice 1: We all decide to go to Cuba and take a good vacation to relax and take out all the stress. The airplane is late and we are all laughing it off, but then a security guard come to see us. Choice 2: We then decide we’re going to Hawaii. 5 hours of airplane is long, but we finally arrive. We have a lot of fun, unfortunately, my mom forced me to bring my little brother with my friends and me. I talk a lot with my friends and then when I look back around, I can't see my little brother anywhere. Choice 3: We don't want to spend too much money so we decide to go to the United States. One of my friends, while waiting for the airplane, he decides to make a funny joke about bombing and explosions. A bunch of security guards come to seize him.

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You decided something which brought you here. Briefly say what the choice was and then develop the story some more. After reading this part, your reader will have to make another choice. Choice 1: The security wants to check us, but one of my friends refuses to follow directives. He decides to take the gun of the security guard and shoot him. The guard is dead. We all start running. Choice 2: He wants to have a talk with us since he thinks we look cool. We spend the whole time talking with him. Then the airplane comes, we say bye to him and get on the airplane. One of my friends pukes since he hates airplanes. We then hear an urgent message saying that the airplane will crash.

Scene 25.

You decided something which brought you here. Briefly say what the choice was and then develop the story some more. After reading this part, your reader will have to make another choice. Choice 1: We all got caught and sent to jail because of my friend. After doing my time in prison, I decide to start a new life and don’t talk to them any more. Choice 2: All the security guards start shooting everywhere since we’re all running too fast. One of the bullets hits me in my leg. I can't run any more.

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You decided something which brought you here. Briefly say what the choice was, provide closure, and end the story. Start again: Press here to restart.

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You decided something which brought you here. Briefly say what the choice was, provide closure, and end the story. Start again: Press here to restart.

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You decided something which brought you here. Briefly say what the choice was and then develop the story some more. After reading this part, your reader will have to make another choice. Choice 1: Everyone is panicking, and so am I. The airplane crashes in a desert highway lane. Everyone feels so worried. My friend and I too, but when I think about it, it’s just an experience since we’re all alive. Choice 2: Everyone panics. I am too, but then the message says that is just a false alarm. I feel so scared.

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You decided something which brought you here. Briefly say what the choice was, provide closure, and end the story. Start again: Press here to restart.

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You decided something which brought you here. Briefly say what the choice was, provide closure, and end the story. Start again: Press here to restart

Scene 31.

You decided something which brought you here. Briefly say what the choice was and then develop the story some more. After reading this part, your reader will have to make another choice. Choice 1: I go to the security’s office and ask to talk in the microphone. I feel so worried that I think about getting killed by my mom already. After calling his name in the microphone, my friend and I go everywhere looking for him. After 3 hours looking for him, we hear news in the media. Choice 2: My friend and I look after my little brother, we are wondering where he could be. I cry a lot and then he shows his face and says: did I scare you? I punch his face and say yes, the airplane is coming, dummy. We all go on the airplane for our vacation.

Scene 32.

You decided something which brought you here. Briefly say what the choice was and then develop the story some more. After reading this part, your reader will have to make another choice. Choice 1: We hear that a kid got kidnapped and killed by an old man. He was trying to sell him to another person but then the kid ran away, he was so startled that he decided to kill him. I can't believe that I lost my eye on him like that. I have the regret all my life for not taking good care of him. Choice 2: I see my little brother on the media asking for me since he got lost. The feeling of happiness I get is so intense that I run over the place and get him. Then, I give him a big hug.

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You decided something which brought you here. Briefly say what the choice was, provide closure, and end the story. Start again: Press here to restart.

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You decided something which brought you here. Briefly say what the choice was, provide closure, and end the story. Start again: Press here to restart.

Scene 35.

You decided something which brought you here. Briefly say what the choice was and then develop the story some more. After reading this part, your reader will have to make another choice. Choice 1: Getting on the airplane, I tried to seduce an old man to get all his money to spend more money on the vacation. Choice 2: When we get on the airplane, we know that we’re all going to get a good vacation and we take it easy and relax.

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You decided something which brought you here. Briefly say what the choice was, provide closure, and end the story. Start again: Press here to restart.

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You decided something which brought you here. Briefly say what the choice was, provide closure, and end the story. Start again: Press here to restart.

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You decided something which brought you here. Briefly say what the choice was and then develop the story some more. After reading this part, your reader will have to make another choice. Choice 1: The security has a talk with my friend and let him go after an hour of discussion together. Choice 2: The security didn’t want to let my friend go since he believes that my friend is a terrorist.

Scene 39.

You decided something which brought you here. Briefly say what the choice was and then develop the story some more. After reading this part, your reader will have to make another choice. Choice 1: We are going to the airplane and my friend fall on the escalator and break his leg; we can't go to the vacation any more. We need to bring him in hospital. Choice 2: After letting him go, he goes back to us and starts doing the same joke. This time, another security guard come and gets him. He didn’t show up after 5 hours so we decide to go without him.

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You decided something which brought you here. Briefly say what the choice was, provide closure, and end the story. Start again: Press here to restart.

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You decided something which brought you here. Briefly say what the choice was, provide closure, and end the story. Start again: Press here to restart.

Scene 42.

You decided something which brought you here. Briefly say what the choice was and then develop the story some more. After reading this part, your reader will have to make another choice. Choice 1: We show him that my friend is a good person by showing him all his family members from a picture and his girlfriend. He believes us and let him go. Choice 2: After everything we tried to tell him, he doesn’t believe us and wants to take my friend in a private place to discuss more. Our vacation is over.

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You decided something which brought you here. Briefly say what the choice was, provide closure, and end the story. Start again: Press here to restart.

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You decided something which brought you here. Briefly say what the choice was, provide closure, and end the story. Start again: Press here to restart.

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Hypertext narrative template for digital ESL literacy

This hypertext narrative fiction template was developed by Bokomaru Publications and checked for common ESL grammar errors using an online ESL grammar checker and checked for field-related vocabulary using an b-block ESL vocabulary checker.

Tuesday, October 20, 2015

Accounting and a general view of the field

Hi,  my name is Thi My Ngan Tran and I'm actually studying in the field of accounting.  I chose to study Accounting because it had interested me and I wanted to follow the same path as my cousin. Accounting is a field that you need to be good with numbers. Indeed, you will register the operations of enterprise, regroup them, class them and then present the results in an orderly system of financial information. What interests us in accounting is all the financial information, like sales amounts, the money an enterprise currently owns, the profits made, etc. I'm going to present some information I got from an article about a day in the life of an accountant so that you can see a little how it goes in accounting. I chose it because I felt it represented well how the life of an accountant is and what you will need to accomplish. 

As an accountant, you will be responsible for all that is finance and tax related. You will handle the payments and make sure they are paid on time, you will transfer the money or the income made to your clients and will have to keep in mind the implications these actions will have on your tax reports. You will spend a lot of time working with number but mostly about other people's work, in which case you will have to deliver bad news, as most of the business owners will not check the numbers themselves and might take some time to employ an accountant, making things worse with time. The public might not react well and give off a negative reaction, but it is normal, people always get defensive when they're told they're not doing things right and might owe a lot of money. That is mostly for general accountants and auditors, but there's also personal accountants. They're responsible for tracking the income and for filling out all the necessary paperwork of clients and sending them to the federal and state government when tax season comes, which is usually in April. Although personal accountants works a lot in April and less the rest of the year, there's also the corporate tax accountants, which works at large enterprises all year-round and are involved in decision making about which actions will affect the tax and how. 

After long years of study, you will then enter the job market as usually an apprentice to a professional accountant for around 2 years. Employers usually requires experience to work in higher standing jobs and it is better to do it with a professional supervising you. You will also probably be doing your certification while working (which also requires field experience), which only 25% of accountants pass the first time. Around 7% of those who leave the work force of accountants leave to pursue their study in the field of accounting. 

After five years being in the work field of accounting, you will notice yourself starting to move a lot. You will be a certified professional and will now start to specialize in private or public accounting, making you go up in the corporate positions, which also makes your hours and salary go up too. You might even start your own accounting firm if you'd like. But, all in all, you must remain strong in the face of long hours and the negative public response because the benefits starts to really show after around 10 years. 

You will either have successfully established your own private firm and be your own boss, or you will have followed the corporate path and will now be involved in the decision making and the corporate strategy. You will notice managements and consulting job positions opening up and will also have the qualifications to take them. Your salary will have gone up significantly by then and hours will start to regulate themselves. You will work less and be able to focus more on your family and hobbies. Then, you can either stay in the corporate business or enter the government service or academia. 

I think choosing the accounting field is a safe bet, especially if you're at ease with numbers, the world will always have the need for an accountant, since everyone has to pay taxes. Hope you learned a little reading this, I really encourage you to go research more information on your own and don't get scared by the public backlash, it is worth it in the end since you will have a rewarding career.

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A peek in the accounting terminology




Accumulated Depreciation: Total depreciation pertaining to an asset or group of assets from the time the assets were placed in services until the date of the financial statement or tax return. This total is the contra account to the related asset account.
Fraud: The use of one's occupation for personal enrichment through the deliberate misuse or misapplication of employing an organization's resources or assets. This can include the fraudulent conversion and obtaining of money or property by false pretenses.
Inventory
: Tangible property held for sale, or materials used in a production process to make a product.
Tax: Charge levied by a governmental unit on income, consumption, wealth, or other basis.

Partnership: Relationship between two or more people based on a written, oral, or implied agreement whereby they agree to carry on a trade or business for profit and share the resulting profits. Unlike a corporation's shareholders, the partnership's general partners are liable for the debts of the partnership. (See general partnership, limited liability partnership, limited partnership.)
Investment: Expenditure used to purchase goods or services that could produce a return to the investor.
Loss: Excess of expenditures over revenue for a period or activity. Also, for tax purposes, an excess of basis over the amount realized in a transaction. (See net income.)
Letter of Credit
: Conditional bank commitment issued on behalf of a customer to pay a third party in accordance with certain terms and conditions. The two primary types are commercial letters of credit and standby letters of credit.

Wednesday, September 30, 2015

Accountant record a walkthrough

cpaquebec.ca

This website is made by the "ordre des comptables professionnels agréés du Québec" by accountants, for future accountants. It is made for everyone who wants to be an accountant. It is made for beginner as much as intermediate accountants and will show you the way to be an accountant; the training, the internship, the prerequisite and the benefits for student; all the advantages for those studying the accounting program while being a member of CPA. The relation between this website and my program is that it gives every detail necessary to become an accountant.

How to use the CPA QUEBEC and create an account

In this video, I will show you around CPA QUEBEC and how to create an account

cpaquebec.ca

Thursday, September 10, 2015

5 reasons why you should be an accountant

Hi, welcome to my website. As you know, there is a lot important jobs in the world and sometimes not enough specialized individuals to fill them. In this article, you'll read why you should choose to be an accountant. The job is not only a job, but it's also a tool for your future. An accountant is someone who manages the books of the business and to make sure that the business is not wasting money and make a profit. Here is the 5 reasons why you should become an accountant.

1.       You will never be afraid of not having work.

The field of accounting is used in all businesses. All workplaces need an accountant to oversee their budget. A good accountant will help maximize profits since he will look at all expenses and income, calculating where you could cut or where you should expand for a profit. The employers usually place the accountant in a high position of esteem and trust since he can save him a lot of money.





2.       You'll be someone who can help others.

You will help the company take the right decision using their turnover; you will evaluate their business and give advice appropriately. You will be helpful not only for a company in which you work for, but for your friends and your loved ones as well. For example, when tax season comes, you can do it for your family either for free. This will be very appreciated from you since they will not need to hire an accountant to do your tax returns, saving them money.

3.       You can create your own company.

No need to hire an expert since you are one. You will do your budget, turnovers and will canvas your budget. So instead of paying $18.30 for an employee in the field of accounting. You will save a lot of money by making your own turnovers and on the hiring cost of an accountant (since you can be both the boss and the accountant!).

4.       Jobs in accounting are usually pretty secure

There's a very, very low chance to be injured at work since most jobs in accounting has good security measures, either it be in the work process of the employees or simply building related. A bank is a pretty secure place to work at; alarms, guards, good safety procedures, etc. You'll not be working in a drug store in some bad neighborhood.

5.       You'll be paid well.

The last, and in my opinion one of the best, is that you'll be paid well, not like you'd be if you worked at Mc Donald’s. In the private sector, you'll start around $18.30 per hour and can go up to $33.82 per hour in average. In the public sector, you'll start around $21.33 per hour and with the possibility to earn $32.09 per hour later on. Now if you plan to do a lot of studies and want to teach other people in college or university, here's where the pay gets crazy, to go along the time you'll spend in school to get there. You'll start at $60.40 per hour and up to the huge pay that is $1352.74 per week in some English universities after you've obtained your Ph. D. and had it for some time. There's even some other professions that range from $18.60 to $33.09 per hour if you're interested in some specific jobs that are maybe in some other sectors.

Source: http://www.metiers-quebec.org/administration/comptable.htm

In conclusion, you should become an accountant because you'll always have work in the industry, you'll be able to help others if you like, you can create and manage properly your own company, you’ll be able to feel safe in almost all the jobs and finally, you'll be paid well (even really well if you want to invest the time in school). I think those are pretty good reasons to become an accountant, so what are you waiting for?