Assignment 6 – Core Competency Portfolio
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Assignment 5 – Sway Multimedia Project
TYKTW 2022
My father, Patrick B by Adam B
The Interview:
1. What is your job title?
Controller
2. What is your job description?
Responsible for month-end close, financial reporting, budgeting, treasury, insurance, and managing the annual external audit.
3. What are the duties and/or tasks you perform at your job?
Respond to emails and phone calls
Booking the month-end journal ledger entries
Reconciling balance sheet accounts
Review profit and loss statements
Approve payments to vendors and sign cheques
Review and amend policies and procedures
Book and attend meetings
4. What qualifications do you have for this job in the following areas:
a) training?
On-the-job training
b) education?
University education (Bachelor of Commerce degree) along with the CPA designation
c) experience?
Many years as an accountant and financial planning and analysis manager
d) skills and attributes (personal qualities)?
Good with numbers, analytical, critical thinker, excellent communication skills, self-starter, project management/planning
5. What are some of the things you like about the job?
Interacting with ownership and upper management.
Provide valuable insights into the field and operations to help them achieve their annual budget.
6. What are some of the things you dislike about this job?
Long hours during the annual external audit as well as the sometimes large admin type of work that needs to be done to complete the work.
7. How do you think this job changing in the next 5 years or so?
Finance and Accounting professionals will need to play a more important role in the future to assist the business to become more competitive and profitable. Simply reporting the financial results every month will not suffice. Finance and Accounting professionals will need to extract insights from all the operational data collected daily to help guide the business toward higher sales and profit margins.
Student Reflections:
1. Give three reasons why you would like this job (be specific):
a)
One reason I would like this job is that I find I am the most productive in this kind of environment. This is because there is nothing to distract me and also everyone around me is working, so I am more likely to do work and not get distracted. I noticed when I did some of the school work that I needed to do, I found that when everyone around me was working and productive it made me focused and productive which was great to just sit down and just go through all of the work I needed to do.
b)
Another reason is that I work really well with numbers, hence doing well in math. I find that the best is when I get to do the technical work because it’s just how my brain works and I don’t think I would get tired of it too quickly. I always like doing math because I am great at it and it makes sense to me. I find that things that are technical make it pretty easy for me to figure out because it’s like my brain’s language is math and numbers.
c)
The last reason is there’s a wide range of jobs to choose from. I like this because when I get tired of the first job, then I could change to a similar one, or maybe a completely different one. Some, of the jobs, are probably done by higher-up employees, so over time, I can climb up the ranks. So hopefully I can climb up pretty fast so that I can change things once and a while and not do too much of the things that are brainless work and should be done by other people.
2. Give three reasons why you would not like this job (be specific):
a)
One reason I would not like this job is that there is a lot of repetition and if they don’t let me change the type of work that’s done, then I will get tired of it. The more I get tired, the more I hate doing the work. I just don’t think that I would like a job which almost never changes and would make me do the same thing almost every day.
b)
Another reason is that whenever there is an assignment due the next day and I haven’t finished it, sometimes it stresses me because I am a person that likes to hand in everything on time. I will go to bed later because I need to finish something, I am not someone to not care and hand it in late. For actual work assignments or jobs, I see myself stressing no less because it actually pays, so I would care about it way more.
c)
The last one is that learning never stops because there are almost infinite things that an accountant can learn. The reason that I wouldn’t like that is that I think that I might get tired of always learning it and I just think that I could do the work better if there were a lot of things to learn and not an infinite. The best things are when you can learn it and then refine the process and make things more efficient. For example, I liked the Rubik’s cube for a while, not anymore, but I liked it because it was simple for me to learn and I could just solve it faster and then that was it and I just repeat the process of trying to solve it faster.
3. Is this job for you? Why or why not?
I am going to say yes, that is because I find that my brain works really well with numbers, it’s just how I work. I worked at one of the desks that were available and liked the layout. I definitely had to get up once and a while, but that didn’t bother me. The type of work is accounting and that’s finalizing stuff and working with all types of different kinds of numbers, I was always a strong math student and still am, but that’s why I think that this job would suit me well. The only thing is that I don’t like doing lots of repetition, but that’s ok because accounting is not just one type of thing, it’s many, so I would be able to change once and a while and that way I would never get too bored because I would always be doing different jobs. I also do like coding, but I don’t like when there could be a problem/issue in your code and it’s so hard to find because it could literally be the lack single bracket or period, or too many. It just drives me absolutely crazy and I don’t like the sound of that type of job. The only way I think it would work without me going crazy is if I practice coding a lot and then get so good at it that I will almost never make stupid mistakes like that. That would take quite some time though and that’s why I think accounting would be better for me.
4. Explain the value of the TYKTW experience in relation to your ideas about your post-secondary (after high school) plans (education?, training?, travel?, work?).
the value of experience at TYKTW is pretty valuable because it shows you how everything works and it also shows you a potential job you could be doing for quite some time. I personally liked the fact that it was really cool because I could live a day in the life of an accountant and see what it’s like to have a desk with a whole setup. I think that the most valuable thing that I learned when I went to TYKTW is the fact that it really gets you to think about the future and how it’s really close by and there’s not much time left, so it really gets you to think about what job you want to do and then work and learn about that job. Personally, I think that I will think about my future more because of this experience I saw how my dad’s office was and I really thought to myself that it was sooner than I thought and I really thought of what I wanted to do in the near future. Overall I think that this experience should be done in all schools because it was like a wake-up call and I liked how it made me think about my future and I’m sure that other people would also like this experience, so that’s why I suggest every school to do this and every student to want to go to TYKTW day.
Pictures:
(sorry about the blinds)
Assignment 3 – Digital Citizenship reflection
Assignment 2 – Digital Referencing and Citations
“Orange Shirt Society”
What is Orange Shirt Day and why is it important?
Orange shirt day is an important day because it is a day to honour everyone who suffered for us and that is something to take some time and learn a little more about. I personally am very grateful that I don’t have to go through all of that pain and not have the ability to see my friends and family. I think that everyone should be a little more grateful to everyone who suffered for us. I intend to research the history and learn about them and I encourage you to do the same!
“Every Child Matters Shirt.” https://www.orangeshirtday.org/ Accessed 10 October 2022.
“Measuring Progress”
Canada’s progress in addressing the 94 calls to action:
The number of Calls to Action that Canada has completed has increased from a total of 8 in 2018 to 9 in 2019, according to our study of the country’s progress toward fulfilling the TRC’s 94 Calls to Action. This is consistent with previous years when progress has been slow. Although they have done quite a bit of work towards the 94 calls to action, there is still more and until they are all completed, it’s not good enough. at this rate, they should be done close too soon. But, it depends if they can complete the ones that take longer because they all take different time lengths. I think that they should be done soon, but I could be wrong.
Jorge Barrera, Teghan Beaudette, Chantelle Bellrichard, Alex Brockman, Meagan Deuling, Kelly Malone, Nic Meloney, Brandi Morin, Lenard Monkman, Kieran Oudshoorn, Jason Warick, Bridget Yard, Beyond 94 Truth and Reconciliation in Canada, CBC news, Jessica Willms and Elizabeth Melito, March 19, 2018, http://https://newsinteractives.cbc.ca/longform-single/beyond-94?&cta=94.
Accessed 11 October 2022.
National Day for Truth and Reconciliation
Why and when was National Truth and Reconciliation Day established?
National truth and reconciliation day was established because one of the residential school survivors Phyllis Webstad, decided to make a campaign for it. The government saw it and decided to make it a national holiday to learn in order to pay respect to survivors, their families, and communities, and to make sure that public remembrance of the history and legacy of residential schools continues to be an essential part of the reconciliation process. It was created last year in June as a federal statutory day, so that’s June 2021 which is pretty recent, it was decided to be on September 30th.
British Columbia, Ministry of Indigenous Relations and Reconciliation. “Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act.” Province of British Columbia, 2022,
Accessed 10 October 2022.
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Open in new tab What is Call to Action #63 iii? How does this assignment help you build “your capacity for intercultural understanding, empathy and mutual respect?”
Call the action Building student capacity for intercultural understanding, empathy, and mutual respect. This assignment helps me build my capacity for intercultural understanding, empathy and mutual respect because researching something makes you understand it better and respect it because then you learn what they went through. personally, when I research things I respect them more because when I know what someone had to go through, I think to myself, what would I would have done and then I respect it because I know the background story.
Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada, Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada: Calls to Action, https://www2.gov.bc.ca/assets/gov/british-columbians-our-governments/indigenous-people/aboriginal-peoples-documents/calls_to_action_english2.pdf 2015. Accessed 10 October 2022.
What is one thing you learned about the Kwikwetlem Nation and our shared land?
One thing that I learned from this video is that the word kwikwetlem actually means red fish up the water. I thought it just meant the name of the place I’m pretty sure that’s what Coquitlam means, but I’m not sure. Another thing that I learned is that the name kwikwetlem was changed to Coquitlam because it was hard to pronounce. Overall I learned quite a bit from this video.
“The Story of Kwikwetle.” YouTube, uploaded by Kwikwetlem First Nation, Oct 4, 2021, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EanZG7DGVTo&t=36s&ab_channel=KwikwetlemFirstNation. Accessed 10 October 2022.
What did you learn about the Kwikwetlem Nation’s language hən̓q̓əmin̓əm̓?
I learned that it is quite like the English language, with some different letters and pronunciations. for someone who can only speak English, it is kind of hard the first few times, but, then it gets easier and I am able to pronounce it. I think that it’s a little hard to pronounce, but I think that it is a good language because it’s very unique and different from any other language. it is kind of like a variation of English, or should I say that English is a variation of the hən̓q̓əmin̓əm̓ language. Overall I find it quite remarkable how they created such a language and then how it was varied to the language most people know which is English.
Accessed 11 October 2022.