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BBA2301

Unit I Discussion Board Question

Introduce yourself to your fellow students and instructor. Share your college degree plans, briefly explaining what degree you are pursuing, why, and how you think taking this course will assist you in achieving your personal or professional goals in life.

Lesson 1: Based on what you have learned about how corporations account for income tax, what ethical issues do you think could arise during the process? How might these ethical issues be addressed? Provide an example of an ethical issue you described.

Lesson 2: Bobby's Bagels just landed a contract to open 100 new stores in shopping malls across the country. The new business should triple the company's profits. Before disclosing the new contract to the public, top managers of the company quietly bought most of Bobby's Bagels stock for themselves. After the discovery was announced, Bobby's Bagels stock price shot up from $7 to $52.

Address the following questions in your discussion post.

• Where are the stock purchase transactions recorded and reported?
• How do you think the managers' purchase of the stock impacted the company's stock price?
• What are the potential ethical implications of the transactions described in the scenario?

Unit II Discussion Board Question

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Lesson 3: What is the treatment for bonds on the books, and how does this compare to equity transactions?

Unit III Discussion Board Question

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Lesson 4: Understanding cash flows is a key factor in identifying how a business is performing. Using your own words, identify the difference between operating, investing, and financing cash flows. Also identify why each one is important to a business.

Lesson 5: Think of all the information on a financial statement and the ways to analyze it. Select an analysis method and state one advantage and one disadvantage of that analysis method in a specific business situation. Describe your business situation briefly but clearly.

Unit IV Discussion Board Question

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Lesson 6: Consider what you have learned about the value chain in this lesson. In your own words, describe the six elements of the value chain and how they can be used to control costs.

Unit V Discussion Board Question

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Lesson 7: In your own words, briefly describe and distinguish the two steps managers use to determine the costs involved with a job. Provide a specific business example for each.

Lesson 8: Think of the characteristics of the different methods for determining the price of a product. What are the differences between job costing and process costing, and how do these differences impact accounting? Which do you think is easier for determining inaccuracies and misinformation? Explain. Try to use a different example than what was posted by your classmates.

Unit VI Discussion Board Question

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Lesson 9: Consider the different aspects of variable costing and absorption costing. Provide a specific business example that illustrates each of the costing methods and why the costing method is used in that situation.

Unit VII Discussion Board Question

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Lesson 10: Budgets are an important aspect of any business. How do managers use budgets specifically? What type of information do budgets provide to managers?

Lesson 11: Consider what you have learned about flexible budgets in this lesson. In your own words, describe how managers use standard cost data to develop flexible budgets. Provide a detailed example of how a flexible budget is used within a company.

Unit VIII Discussion Board Question

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What is your opinion of this course? Did it meet your expectations? What suggestions can you offer for improvement of this course for future students?

Please include the name of the person or question to which you are replying in the subject line. For example, "Tom's response to Susan's comment."

Lesson 12: Reflect on what you have learned about the accuracy of cost systems and the special types of business decisions managers make. Describe one key method for improving the accuracy of cost systems and provide an example of how this can be accomplished. Next, describe in detail one of the special short-term business decisions managers make and provide a specific example of when this type of decision is necessary.

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