Description
Congratulations! Through your research and efforts last week, you've been offered and accepted a position as a staff accountant at ABC Tax & Accounting Service. As a public accountant, you will work with many clients and organizations every day. This requires a number of skills, including time management, communication, information literacy, digital fluency, and teamwork, along with accounting knowledge and skills.
In this new position, you have a number of duties and clients you are responsible for. After a long weekend, you arrive to the office on Monday morning, April 11th, to the communications and issues in this document.
Along with all of the communications on your task list, you have work from prior weeks to attend to as well, including the March bookkeeping for Buzz Electricals, quarterly payroll reports for the Ripp Sewing Company due to be postmarked by April 30th, and a few tax returns that were started last week that clients would like to review and sign on Wednesday of this week. Your schedule for the day shows the following:
MONDAY, APRIL 11th | |
8am-9am | |
9am-10am | Staff Meeting |
10am-11am | |
11am-12pm | |
12pm-1pm | Lunch - Planning Session |
1pm-2pm | New Tax Client Meeting |
2pm-3pm | |
3pm-4pm | |
4pm-5pm | Training - "Affordable Care Act Impact on Payroll Recordkeeping" |
To complete this assignment, do the following:
- Prioritize what you will be working on
today. In a single Word document, create a schedule in tabular format
(you can use the schedule table above as a starting point) that shows
the tasks you plan to complete today. Then, beneath the table, address
the following:
- Justify any tasks that you will be pushing to tomorrow or later and explain how you plan to address any scheduling or deadline conflicts.
- Explain at least one alternative to the schedule you have created for yourself. Why is your chosen schedule more efficient/beneficial than other option? How does your choice benefit your employer? Your clients? You as an employee?
- Share how you will be responding to the email and voicemail
messages in the document posted above using the following guidelines:
- Emails should be written exactly as you would send them to clients or vendors, and voicemails should be scripted as exactly what you would say in response to the issues being raised.
- Ensure you are providing accurate and pointed information along with any relevant details needed in your communications.
- Remember to communicate in a professional and appropriate manner, keeping your audience and communication purpose in mind, as would be expected of you on the job.
- Your submission can be a combination of different types of communications to address the concerns and issues that have arisen above. This might mean using a Word document, Excel document, or PowerPoint document or any combination thereof. Or you may decide to handle all communications in a single type of format.
- Your communications should be clear, professional, and free from grammatical error, effectively using spellcheck and dictionary tools within the software programs chosen.
- Remember to give credit to any external sources used by providing in-text citations and a reference page (if used)

Explanation & Answer

Attached.
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Running head: A TIME SCHEDULE
Time Schedule
Student Name
Institutional Affiliation
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A TIME SCHEDULE
A Time Schedule
Time of the day 8am-9am
Arrive at work
9am-10am
This
involves
reporting
to work
and
ensuring
that I am
fully
settled
and
ready for
the day’s
activities.
Staff meeting
Attending
normal day
staff meeting
where
essential
business
meetings are
often
discussed.
10am-
11am- 12pm-
2pm-
11am
12pm
3pm
1pm
3pm-4pm
4pm5pm
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A TIME SCHEDULE
Here key
issues of
concern are
to be taken
into serious
consideration.
Checking on
Attempting
Emails that
to look at
might have
the emails
been sent over
that might
the weekend
have been
sent to the
office desk
over the
weekend
in order to
ensure that
serious
business
issues are
not left
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A TIME SCHEDULE
unattended
to.
Lunch-
Taking
planning
a brief
session
break
to
assess
some
issues
that can
be
planned
for.
New tax client
Meeting
meeting
up with
new
clients
to
discuss
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A TIME SCHEDULE
on tax
issues.
Booking
Making
appointments
prior
for Tuesdays’
bookings
activities
and plans
for
activities
that are
scheduled
to take
place on
Tuesday.
Training "Affordable
Care Act
Impact on
Payroll
Recordkeeping"
Alternative Measures
An efficient workflow is relevant as it promotes production activities among
employees by improving on the results likely to be obtained. To ensure that such actions are
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A TIME SCHEDULE
met, it is necessary to make sure that an individual always ensures that h...
