Developing an objective expectation is considered a critical step in conducting analytical procedures. This expectation is a sort of prediction of results in conducting these procedures, and has to be independent in order to carry more weight in the decision making process. In relation to the case at hand, the Burlington Bees (BBs), we will perform substantive analytical procedures in order to be able to verify ticket revenue for 2014, to a close proximity with 2013.
Analytical procedures are used at the initiation of an audit in order to carve a clear path into what areas, accounts in particular, of the financial statements of the company we will be placing more emphasis on in order to identify and assess the risks of material misstatement
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First, the development of an independent expectation is required, which will have to be objective in order for the procedures to be effective. In general, auditors will develop the expectation by using reasonable relationships depending on equivalent financial information from prior periods or information regarding the specific industry in which the client operates, as well as foreseen results (e.g. budgets). For our BBs case we will use information that we can verify even from outside of the company, as in the number of games played during the season and the numbers of attendance to the games, information that is usually published on periodicals and websites. We are fortunate enough that BBs are using and independent outside source, Tickets R Us, in order to provide us with the number of attendants to all the games in the season at hand, 2014. This will provide more assurance for us and reduce our risk of material misstatements because the information is not internal. In regards to the price of tickets we will use an estimated increase in the ticket sales from what we observe in our prior years working
The primary setting in Laurie King’s The Beekeeper’s Apprentice is a Britain being agglomerated in the chaos of World War I, and King portrays the transformation of Britain’s culture and society over the course of the war synonymously in many aspects of the plot of the book. Mary Russell’s status as a detective in the novel and her attendance at Oxford University reflects Britain’s indifference towards workers being female and its proliferation of educated women due to the increase in the need of women workers with men being directed to war.
In The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd Lily has assumptions, biases, and prejudices about race that are changing over the course of the novel.
When someone hears the word quest, their mind automatically goes to a mythical land of dragons and knights in shining armor. However, Thomas Foster’s book How to Read Literature Like a Professor states that this shouldn’t always be the case. In Chapter One: Every Trip Is a Quest, Foster claims that a quest in literature can take place in any time period and can be as mundane as grocery shopping. In order to classify an event as quest, it needs to follow certain criteria. There needs to be “a quester, a place to go, a stated reason to go there, challenges and trials en route, and a real reason to go there” (Foster, 3). Furthermore, considering the definition of a quest by Thomas Foster, it is clear that the novel, The Secret Life of Bees, fits
Intro: Working around the hives; dedicated and faster with each movement. Honey drizzling in golden crevices; a family unit working together, buzzing in harmony. Bees and beehives is a significant motif in the novel Secret Life of Bees: By Sue Monk Kidd because it represents the community of women in the novel. It also represents Lily Owen’s longing and need for a mother figure in her life. And finally, it was significant because the bees lived a secret life, just as Lily and Rosaleen did in the novel.
Home in The Secret Life of Bees Sonsyrea Tate’s statement about “home” aligns with Sue Monk Kidd’s novel, The Secret Life of Bees. In this novel, the main character, Lily Owens, embarks on a Bildungsroman journey after leaving her birth home to find her true identity and “home.” The idea of “home” guides Lily on a path of self-discovery and leads her to the pink house and the feminine society that lies within, in which she finds true empowerment and womanhood in her life. “Home” plays an important role in Lily’s journey throughout the novel. Lily feels lost and alone at the Peach House with T. Ray because of his continuous physical and mental abuse.
The setting in the Secret life of bees helps set the overall structure of the book. As the setting changes, and certain events take place, so does the characters views on life. The most change seen is on Lily, the main character. Her values multiply and her perspective on cultural order shifts from one mind set to another. Although one part of the book’s setting limits the opportunities of the characters; the other part opens those and different opportunities. The setting in The Secret Life of Bees is vitally important because it impacts the main character and the people around her through events that transpire in the book.
The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd is a story about racial struggle between black and white in 1964, which is in the middle of the civil right movement in South Carolina. The narrator and protagonist of the story named Lily raised by T. Ray, her father, who has bias towards black people at all time. Due to the fact that T. Ray often says something regards to racial discrimination, Lily starts to thinks that whites are superior than the others unconsciously. Also Lily was not aware that she is being an unconscious racism because of T. Ray until she starts to live with Boatwright sisters who are black. T. Ray often takes his anger out on Lily since Deborah left the house and it trigged abuses and ignores Lily. Moreover, though T. Ray treats Lily so badly, he seems like and acts like he doesn’t care. In other words, it was impossible to feel any humanity in T. Ray. One of the most important and influential characters named T. Ray is prejudiced, violent and cruel person.
The accuracy of budget projections was also monitored during the year and formally revised on three occasions. The first of these occasions occurs in the March meeting of the Executive Committee. Each Executive Committee member is asked to update the Committee on his most recent estimates of sales and profits for each operating company for the current year. Herb Stolzer is dependent on Roy Black to provide this information for Stolzer’s review prior to the March
The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd is the story of a fourteen-year-old girl named Lily, who runs away from her abusive father with her housekeeper to the town that her late mother had once been to. There, she meets August and the Boatwright sisters, who live in a bright pink house and own a bee farm. These women teach her all about life through bees and the black Mary statue that is kept in their house. Lily comes from a rough situation, surrounded by negativity, but the sisters take her in and teach her what family and love is. Although living in a world where, for her, love is scarce, Lily is able to learn from the all negatives in her life, which then turn into positives, and Lily is a better person because of what she learned.
What can we actively take part in to stop the collapse of bee colonies? Bees are such a vital part of our everyday agriculture production, however, colonies are diminishing before our eyes. Colony Collapse Disorder is a massive decrease of bees in hives and it is greatly affecting our crops because bees are not distributing the necessary amount of pollen to crops in order for them to grow the maximum, most nutritious produce possible. There are many solutions that may help CCD, such as banning neonics, urban beekeeping, and interbreeding honey bees with African killer bees. The most effective way to decrease CCD is by interbreeding honey bees with a stronger specie of bees labeled African killer bees.
The musings of Keats and Charlotte Smith identify with the British Romantic movement. This movement emerged as the political and social movements of that time were shifting into a new phase. With revolutions occurring, Britain ushered in the Romantic era during the late seventeen hundreds, gaining momentum until the start of the twentieth century. Romanticism reevaluated traditional Medieval characteristics of chivalry, love, and adventure, while the poets of the time idealized visionary imagination. They believed these characteristics should be present in politics and literature alike. What is now proved was once only imagined. The Romanticists meant to guide the people into an age of philosophical change; for the better. Their idealized
Before being considered a measure of the true profit, reliability of profit figures shall be
[4] Colin Drury, Management and Costing Accounting, (7th edition), Chapter 3, Cost Assignment, p. 54-59
Marshall, D., McManus, W., & Viele, D. (2004). Accounting: What the numbers mean. [University of Phoenix Custom Edition e-text]. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill Companies.
The purpose of this document is to describe the nature, purpose and scope of accounting and it deliberately explains the details of each category in accounting. Accounting involves in preparing financial documents of an entity by analyzing, verifying, and reporting this records. It emphasizes its major characteristic role in field of banking and finance, with a mixture of supportive sub topics.