Essays on Personal Account

Individuals in the public sector are always tasked with the responsibility of ensuring that they account for all the money that is in their possession. However, various unscrupulous members of the public sector tend to carry out their activities in a manner that they are unable to fully account for the assets that have been entrusted to them. The sad part of this type of crime is that the individual acquired the assets via a lawful means and the amount that is duly sent to them, however, they end up using the amount for a purpose that it was ...

Accounting has three basic principles which need to be followed for the debit and credit entries. There are three types of accounts which include personal account, real account and a nominal account. For each of the above mentioned accounts, there are debit and credit rules which make it simpler to record the transaction. The real account is an account for assets which are fixed in nature, the personal account is for an individual in the business through whom the transactions are carried out and the nominal account is an account for the income and expenses which are incurred in ...

Modernization of finance industry through the use of information technology (IT) is one of the important and most convenient developments in the insurance industry. However, with the risks attached to IT, the finance industry is currently facing the challenges of security breaches which affected the growth of some companies and the industry per se. This paper will discuss the IT issues confronting the industry, how it is likely to be resolved, and the future of the finance sector. Media organizations have reported various data breaches cases that affected the finance industry in the past few years. Martha C. ...

A Critique of Peggy McIntosh Article

Peggy McIntosh in his article White Privilege, Color, and Crime: A Personal Account narrates his personal experiences in the United States of America based on white privilege, color, and crime. She explores the issue of unearned privileges of white people because of their color with regards to issues of crime in the United States. That the Whites have the privileges given to them by the society while other people such as Euro-Americans and African-Americans are under pressure from the same society to be unmindful and unconscious of those privileges. She argues that this is very oblivion or unawareness flowing ...

Personal finance

Learning is a continuous experience that starts at birth. Although formal learning takes place within learning institutions, much of human learning is a product of experiences from life. Like in other areas of professional development, financially planning is a product of both formal and informal learning experiences. In this respect, multiple experiences throughout my life have shaped my financial planning skills. My learning experience with respect to financial planning is traceable to my days in college. Being in learning institutions calls for self-discipline and control with regard to financial. This offered the first and extremely important lessons with regard to financial planning. ...

Into thin Air is a personal account of the author’s expedition on the tallest mountain in the world. “I stood atop Mount Everest, gasping for air at the topmost limit of earth’s atmosphere. Standing on the top of the world, I cleared the ice from my oxygen mask, put my shoulder against the wind, and stared at the vast view of earth below. I understood on some dim level that it was a spectacular sight. I'd been dreaming about this moment for many months. But now that I was finally here, standing on the summit of Mount Everest, ...

How Stalin succeeded in transforming the U.S.S.R. Stalin’s plans to achieve the modernization of the Soviet Union through rapid industrialization and the collectivization of the land transformed the Soviet Union, but came with an immense cost in human suffering. How was Stalin able to pursue such inhumane policies without risking insurrection or revolt? This paper examines five sources in order to answer that question. It will be seen that through a mixture of tyranny and terror, through propaganda designed to bolster the cult of personality, and through associating himself the legacy of Lenin, Stalin was able to achieve ...

Abstract

Le Ly Hayslip’s memoir is a remarkably personal account of the Vietnam War from the perspective of a native who was victimized by both sides. Her viewpoint is a sharp departure from other histories of the Vietnam conflict, which has often been written about from the standpoint of combatants or by scholars writing highly academic histories. Hayslip’s account shows how one’s understanding of the world can be determined by an ideology, and how it can be changed radically by personal experience. When Heaven and Earth Changed Places is an important work in that it reveals the terrible sufferings endured ...