Business Opening Activity

An accountant is someone in finance which means someone who works with money. It can be like an investor, a manager or simply someone who works tax authority. An accountant can do many things such as analyzing revenues, costs, financial liabilities, and assets. Accounting professionals must often calculate, input, and verify data on a regular basis. An investor, a business man, someone who works  with taxes, a person who works at a bank, someone who owns a business  and a manager are consider as accountants. Certified Management Accountant (CMA), Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountant (CGA), 

Describe your favourite advertisement. Why do you like it? Describe your favourite store. Why do you prefer that store to other stores? What soft drink do you like the best? Why that product instead of others?

My favourite advertisements are the ones that are funny like the the Old Spice commercials. I think funny commercials caught people's eyes. Also they are easy to remember. I like stores that have a good price and that they don't make children work. I am strongly against child labour. Therefore I hate Walmart and Ikea. My favourite soft drink is Coca Cola because it is so good. After a hot summer day, all i wish for is to have one of those drinks because it refreshes me. Also Coca Cola do awesome commercials like the one with the Simpsons.

What is working well with your group for this project? What do you wish would work better? How can you work better? How can you encourage others to work better?

Right now we are all working on advertisement, we posted links of our website on our facebook account and twitter account, we talked to our friends about our project and Saad already has a costumer. I wish we could just have a little bit more time for our website because we had a few problems but we got everything fixed. We started working really hard, and we are happy with the final result. Yesterday I got the poster done and we worked on some new business cards.

How can businesses end up with a bad reputation? Are bad reputations are always the business fault? What can a company do to change a negative public image?

Usually a business will end up with a bad reputation if the work is not done well or if it can't satisfy the people. They say that clients are always right. So it is very important for a business to do whatever it takes to make the people happy. Bad reputations are not always businesses fault because sometimes people just make up things about a company, kinda like rumours. It is actually pretty hard to change your image when your business has a bad reputation because people make up their minds very easily. But it is possible, it your provide a very good service.

What do you think of this man's ideas?

I honestly believe that this man has great ideas and he expressed them very well. I think it was very interesting to watch. Although there were some things I didn't understand in the video. The video was very long.  After watching the first half I felt like I wanted to go sleeping. But like I said before, his ideas with energy were very good but he could've made the video shorter because who likes a to sit and listen a guy talk for 12 minutes.

“Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what’s right.”

I think it mean that no matter what, always do the right thing, even if you don't  feel good about it. Like let's say that someone is in danger, you have to try your best to save that person even if it seems dangerous to you. I think it is pretty much saying that you have to stand up for yourself or simply don't be scared of anything or anyone because it is your life and you make your own choices. You don't want anyone to tell you what to do. When something sounds right to you, you gotta do it even if your brain says no.

You are aware that the teller gave you back too much money when completing a banking transaction.

Honestly, I would  give the money back and if you want my opinion honesty is like the most important thing. Think about it, if everybody would act this way, our beautiful world would be in peace. I try to act the best I can while I can. If if it happened to you. Let's say you own a store and you gave too much change to a client. Like lets say 20 dollars, how would you actually feel if your client brought you back the money. Also I believe that stealing is wrong.

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What are some products that you think could be considered unethical and morally wrong?

I think it is wrong when people lie in their advertisements because it is not honest and when this happens people get angry with the company and they never want to buy again from them because they know that those companies do fake advertisements. Also when stores lie about the price of their products and this happens all the time. Stores do these kinda things so they can get more clients. I think all it does is making people angry because it is false advertisements. But I think a lot of companies are dishonest and they are willing to do whatever it takes just so they can get money.

What you think about the criticism?

Well first of all I wanted to say that I agree with what is happening in wall street and everywhere else where they are protesting for this cause. I really think that the rich people are too rich and the poor people  are too poor and personally I think it is a big problem. I am very surprised that there was so many people who showed up at the protest and I think it is wonderful to stand up for what you believe in and that is what people are doing. I wonder what is going to happen with this protest, like when is it going to end are are people going to get what they really want.

Career Fair

My group and I went to many stations and we got a lot of of fun. Basically what we did is walked stations to stations and we asked them tree different questions. The first one was "What kind of business are you?" The second question was "What's enrolment?" And finally our last question was "How do you target your market?" People gave us interesting answers. We learned many things like per example that the University of Calgary is a non-profit business because all the money they make is put back in the university. And also the UofC have many ways to target their market like they have a website, they do publicity and they advertise their school by going to different high schools and they do advertising. We also went to the station about the army and I think this was very interesting because the guy who was doing the presentation is a french-canadian soldier and as you may know my first language is french so I had the chance to communicate in french with him and it was awesome. The soldier also talked about his experiences like when he went to afghanistan for his mission.

Dominique Straus-Jahn

Dominique Straus-Jahn was in charge of Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund. Dominique is a French economist, lawyer, politician, and member of the French Socialist Party. He was born on April 25 1949. Dominique was also a professor of economics at the Paris Institute for Political Studies. Between 1993 and 1997, he was in the private sector as a corporate lawyer. From 1991 to 1993, Mr. Strauss-Kahn served as Minister of Industry and International Trade, during which time he participated in the Uruguay Round of trade negotiation.

Why do you think it's become so popular? What do you think of the statement?

It think this picture has become so popular because obviously it is all over the internet a lot of people got the chance to see it. Also it is because people agree with this young woman and they have a lot of respect for her and she has a lot of respect for the people. She is a very rich person but she still agrees with what is happening in wall street and this is why she is part of this protestation. She is against what some of the rich people are doing so she decided to express her opinion.

Business Studies/Day 23

• Who is Occupy Wallstreet about? A bunch of people who struggle financially.
• What happened? People got together in the streets and I guess they are fighting for their rights.
• Where did it take place? It took place in New York City, NY
• When did it take place? It started a few weeks ago and it is not over yet
• Why did it happen? Because some people do not agree with the responsible  
• How did it happen? People gathered in the streets of new york and they started protesting 

secrets of success in 8 words

He talked about how to achieve success and he gave the eight most important things you have to do. He gave some examples for the keywords. He pretty much just said the main points of success. It was a brief video because it was very short, just a few minutes. I learned that the most important things in succcess are work, focus, passion, good idea, effort a a few other things. I think it was a very good video and it was very interesting to watch.

Business/Day 21

Before we start advertising, we need what to advertise and how to do in order to get a lot of clients. Advertising is not as easy at it seems because you gotta follow a few steps. We need to learn how to make good posters so people go wow when they see it. The main goal is to caught up people's attention and there is many different ways to do this like by make it funny. I would say that best advertisements are the ones that are funny like the Old Spice commercials. And they are good advertisement because people remember them. A bad example of commercials are the ones that are always on. At beginning they are fun to watch and they get boring very fast and people get tired to them like shamwow.

Business Day 20

Once we achieve our goal which is to make a successful business and of course make some money, we are going to take the business to a whole new level. We are going to try to make our business even more popular by promoting it so we can have more clients and make extra money. I am not saying that we are going to be able to make a living out of it but lets say its just a way to make some extra money in our pockets. We are willing to work very hard. I think it is very important to achieve our goals because its good for out self esteem.

5 things that would make a better leader

Listen to my parters all the time. Their opinion is as much important as mine.
Help each other out as much as possible.
Participate equally, do not let someone do the work all by himself.
Always be in task, it is important that we do not waste time.
Provide good information, do research.