W. TERRY DANCER

 PROFESSOR OF ACCOUNTING

ARKANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY

          COST ACCOUNTING I

LIBRARY/ETHICS/COMMUNICATIONS ASSIGNMENT

FALL 2006

This assignment is due NOVEMBER 9, 2006.

If your work is handwritten, please use a blue book.

Requirement 1: ETHICS

1.  Write a page or two defining ethics and ethical behavior.  Your written explanations should include both an investigation into what others feel constitutes ethical behavior and a discussion of ethics in your own words, your own feelings.

2.  Assume you are an accountant for a CPA firm.  Write a one or two page story that presents you with an ethical situation you must deal with. Write your story such that the legal implications are minimized and the ethical constraints are maximized. 

3.  Once you have written you story, write an explanation of how you handled the situation.

PLEASE LABEL YOUR WORK PART 1a, part 1b, part 2, and part 3

Requirement 2: INTERNATIONAL

Write a page or two on the need to include elements of an international perspective in the course curriculum.  Necessary or unnecessary.  Useful or useless.  Take a point of view and then defend your view.  Back up your view with at least one library reference, perhaps a journal article. .

Requirement 3: LIBRARY

Find two articles from recent copies of Management Accounting dealing with topics covered in Cost Accounting I. Read the article carefully and write a one or two page summary of the article.  Make a copy of the first page of the article.  Staple your summary and the first page of the article.  Turn in.

Management Accounting is an academic journal. If you have trouble finding the journal, ask the reference librarian for assistance.

WHEN IN DOUBT ABOUT ANYTHING, ASK

COST ACCOUNTING I

EXTRA CREDIT WORK

FALL 2006

This is not a required assignment.  If you decide to complete the project, you may earn up to 10 extra points.  This project is due November 14, 2006 for those deciding to participate. 

The work is to write a paper titled “The value of non-value-added activities”.  You need to have at least 10 references.  Five may come from the internet and the other five must come from the library. 

          You will need a title page, an outline, a body, and a list of references.  The total pages for the title page, outline, body, and references should not exceed 10 pages with double spacing and a 10 or 12 pt. font. 

If you have any questions, ask.