An Educated Man and Computer
Computers are everywhere, so the computer industry is one of the largest in western countries and especially in the USA. It includes companies that manufacture, sell and lease computers, as well as companies that supply products and services for people, working with computers.
Computer is a machine that performs calculations and processes information with astonishing speed and precision. A computer can handle vast amounts of information and solve complicated problems. The forerunner of today’s computer was built by Harvard University pshysicist Howard Aiken in 1944.
Each computer has its hardware and software. Computer hardware consists of a computer, a monitor, a keyboard, a printer and their connections. The software contains the various programs, you run on your computer. The most common programs, used in business, are those for:
1/ word processing (writing letters, faxes, documents, contracts);
2/ spread sheets (for budgets and financial analysis);]
3/ database management programs (for keeping names and addresses of customers);
4/ accounting (for bookkeeping);
5/ graphic programs (for drawing charts);
6/ communication programs (for E-mail, Internet);
7/ desktop publishing programs (for producing manuals, catalogues).
Most of the computers in the world use software, invented by Bill Gates, the founder of Microsoft. So the most successful software company now is Microsoft with its Windows programs for different years.
The Internet, a global computer network which embraces millions of users all over the world, began in The United States in 1969 as a military experiment. In was designed to survive a nuclear war. Information, sent over the Internet, takes the shortest path available from one computer to another. The Internet can provide different services for businessmen and simply users. The most popular Internet service is e-mail. Most of people, who have access to the Internet, use the network only for sending and receiving e-mail messages. However, other popular services are available on the Internet: reading USENET News, using the World-Wide- Web, telnet etc. (and so on). Some American banks and companies even conduct transactions over the Internet.
Computer have changed the way people work. They handle many tasks in business, education, manufacturing transportation and other fields. Many tasks, performed by large numbers of clerical workers are now done by computers. They provide scientists and other researchers with a clearer understanding of nature. They give people, who work with words, an effective way to create documents. They enable designers and artists to see things, that never been seen before.
The value of computers lies in their ability to perform certain basic tasks and produce new information extremely quickly and accurately, that they are changing people’s view of the world.
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My Future Profession
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It is very important for everybody to make the right choice of profession. But occupation you want to devote your life to has to bring you satisfaction. So it should be something you can do and you really want to.
Having left the Cherkassy Business College, I’m going to work as an accountant. This profession is rather old, but nowadays it has acquired a lot of new characteristic features. So, it isn’t an easy task to become a good accountant today. You have to make up financial reports, balances, to prepare invoices, balance sheets and to draft budget.
To my mind, the most important obligations of a bookkeeper are to draft budgets, to know debit and credit of a company and taxation system.
Business people often call accounting the “language of business” because they use accounting data in communicating about a firm’s activity. Information provided by accountants help managers and other executives understand the results of business transactions and interpret the financial status of their organization. With this knowledge, managers can make informed decisions about such matters as production, marketing and financing.
An accountant must be skillful, experienced, exact, and he must keep secrets of his company.
I would like to work at a big firm. I think I’ll be able to cope with my professional duties and make profits for my firm.
Probably in the future I’ll organize my own business.
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It is very important for everybody to make the right choice of profession. The occupation you want to devote your life to has to bring you satisfaction. So it should be something you can do and you really want to.
Having left the Cherkassy Business College, I’m going to work as a manager. Every field of business activity has its own manager, who knows peculiar features of this or that business sphere. So there is a marketing research manager, product manager, advertising, sales and finance manager. What is typical for all of them?
Managers are people who are responsible for making and carrying out decisions within the system. It is a hard job. There is a lot to be done and relatively little time to do it.
A good manager has:
to make up contracts;
to conduct business talks;
to sell different products;
to have perfect knowledge of an economy, management and marketing;
to know computer;
to organize the proper work of the group.
The purpose of such organization is to make common men do uncommon things, to make ordinary persons perform their work better than they are capable of. This is the main task of the manager in general.
I would like to work at a big firm. I think I’ll be able to cope with my obligations and duties and make profits for my firm. Probably in the future I will organize my own business.