Beneath the Wraps

            So this month's theme seems to be focusing on mergers and takeovers and combinations and blah, blah, blah . . .   There are some aspects of accounting that I don't mind, but I am quite annoyed with the topic of takeovers and stocks and bonds and goodwill and   . . . what the heck?   The reading is boring and hard to translate into English.   I feel like I'm looking at blueprints of trying to run a business patterned after Hitler's dictatorship.   I don't like it at all.             I have watched part of one video in which a former instructor goes through the assignment using a different example than the one assigned (makes sense) and I am trying to write down how she explains it and I'm just not in the mood (as though I ever will be) partly because I feel so worn out right now.       ...

          Why is it that the accounting language is so wordy?   Don't use two paragraphs to tell me what can be said in only four words.   Do they make an accounting book that reads like "Dick and Jane" - not that "Dick and Jane" was much fun to read, but at least it was simple.                    One of the objectives of this project is to create a single set of accounting                   standards to stand at the base of the "production" and at the constant flow                  of high-quality information, clear and compatible in financial situations and                  in other financial rep...

          I still like the feel of a book in my hands rather than having to constantly refer to the screen and "turn" the page by pressing next or arrow.  When the library had the book sale back in October and November, I found an accounting book that was in great condition - but it was from 1979.  I picked it up anyway.            Thus far I have taken two accounting classes and am now on my third and so far my outdated book has been compatible to my first two courses.  I obviously hadn't taken payroll or taxes into account.  Guess what my accounting focus is on for this class?           The government laws are constantly changing.  This tax is taken out for this purpose, that tax for another.  We no longer have just FICA and SSN - now there is IRCA created in in 1986, FMLA created in 1993, PRWORA creat...