1. Write about Ethical Dilemma - ethical conduct of accountants. Discuss your personal experience or give an example concerning an ethical dilemma that a business professional may have faced.
2. Write a summary of a current event article related to process costing. Relate this article to aviation. Be sure to provide the article reference.
3. Activity Based Costing. Write a summary of a current event article related to activity-based costing and aviation. Proofread your posting to eliminate misspelled words and ensure proper sentence structure.
4. Cost Behavior. Write a summary of a current event article relating to cost behavior and/or cost-volume-profit analysis. Your article could be from television, newspaper, or a current magazine.
Assume that you are preparing for a second interview with a manufacturing company. The company is impressed with your credentials but has indicated that it has several qualified applicants. You anticipate that in this second interview, you must show what you offer over other candidates. You learn that the company currently uses a periodic inventory system and is not satisfied with the timeliness of its information and its inventory management. The company manufactures custom-order holiday decorations and display items. To illustrate your abilities, you plan to recommend that it use a cost accounting system.
Required:
In preparation for the interview, prepare notes outlining the following: Your cost accounting system recommendation and why it is suitable for this company. A general description of the documents that the proposed cost accounting system requires.