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top 10 ludicrous job ads In 2010, the BBC performed an online survey asking for examples of ludicrous job ads. Published in the London Guardian, here are the top 10: - Wet leisure assistant -- Lifeguard - Modality manager -- Nurse - Waste management and disposal technician -- Bin (garbage) man - Information adviser -- Librarian - Direct debit and membership and professional development stock and credit administrator -- Customer services administrator - Family protection consultant -- Insurance telesales worker - Investment development and research analyst -- Technical help desk worker - Worldwide marine asset financial analyst -- Accountant - Debt management officer/Field force agent -- Tax collector - Coordinator of interpretive teaching -- Museum tour guide
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... short distillations of longer job descriptions and, according to human resources/personnel profes...
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... with it usually comes a title or job description: salesperson, waiter, accountant, manager. Positio...
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..., she is a licensed Certified Public Accountant, she has extensive experience in finance and accou... that this was not required by the job description, a Certified Public Accountant is expected to have...
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If accounting is the language of business, the forensic accountant is a translator. When working on a case, finding the smoking gun -- that key piece of evidence that turns the entire case -- can be exciting. The forensic accountant's job, working along with the client, is to correlate and weave together accounting information with other, nonaccounting facts. Sometimes, going through accounting evidence can seem like wading in muck. Even the most experienced attorneys wonder how they're going to get a jury to understand. Expert litigators offer the suggestion of taking a step backward from the details of the accounting information in order to paint the larger scene. A simple description of a spreadsheet created a persuasive and powerful impact, and helped lead to a settlement. And the l...
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This paper offers a hands-on approach to teaching job order costing in introductory managerial accounting or in cost accounting. It is motivated by the belief that students would have a better appreciation of how goods and costs flow in a manufacturing firm through an experiential learning exercise as opposed to passive learning methods such as reading a text description or listening to a lecture. The exercise involves the simulated manufacture of a table from the purchase of raw materials through the sale of the finished product. Cost accumulation is illustrated using both actual and normal costing systems.
... Supervisor as well as the Cost Accountant. Each of the students wears an 8.5'' x 11'' sign w...
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... of the independent certified public accountant's audit report to achieve compliance with the requ... of functions and responsibilities, a description of the duties and responsibilities of each positio...
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DEAR JOYCE: After responding to dozens of job postings, so far I've heard nothing back from any of them. What should I do to keep my resume out of what I've heard described as "a black hole?" - T.A.T.
The resume black hole is a cyberspace cavern where unclaimed resumes go to die. Here's why it exists and what you can do to keep your resumes from being entombed there.
... and phrases you find in the job description. Include slight variations, such as accounting, ac... slight variations, such as accounting, accountant and accountancy. Use Web resources to research key...
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Teranga West Africa presents a subsidiary of a European company located in a region of the world that presents some unique opportunities and challenges for conducting business. This case can be used as an introduction to a discussion of differences in doing business in a developing country environment from those of a typical Western setting. It can also be used to develop a spreadsheet that tracks actual versus estimated planned and unplanned costs and their impact on rate of return. Ideally, this case can be used for both. The case is appropriate for any accounting or finance course that deals with Managerial and Cost Accounting concepts, in addition to International Accounting issues.
... was considering revising the job description (see Exhibit 1) he had prepared the year before to... not something that a locally trained accountant was typically capable of doing. Business and accou...
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..., she is a licensed Certified Public Accountant, she has extensive experience in finance and accou... that this was not required by the job description, a Certified Public Accountant is expected to have...
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.... A spokesman in the town accountant's office said Mr. McInerney's salary is $120,000. ...