Classical Studies 3400E Chapter Notes -Phallus, Fascinus, Apotropaic Magic

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18 Nov 2011

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Western University

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Classical Studies

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Classical Studies 3400E

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Chris Piper

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Like greek, roman sexual territory is a foreign domain. There is pertinent information about roman sexual matters in all sorts of ancient literature legal texts, history, poetry, and political discourse. Ancient erotic handbooks (often illustrated) have not survived. As well, we have artistic representations and objects (vases, lamps, mosaics) depicting sexual scenes. The visual record is far richer than the textual record. All social classes (elite, free, freed, slave) and both genders viewed erotic objects: the visual representations appeared at all levels of society. Fresco painting was the technique of trapping pigments in the lime mortar before it set, to ensure the decoration had a long life (not as long as fired pottery, which was virtually indestructible). Thus the painter works with mortar that is still wet, rendering would be done in small sections starting from the top of the wall. Sometimes details were added after the mortar was dry.

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Chapter 2 Conceptual Framework for Financial Reporting LO 2.1Describe the usefulness of a conceptual framework.

A _____________________ in accounting is important becauserule-making should be built on and relate to an established body ofconcepts.

The benefits of a soundly developed conceptual framework are asfollows: a) ______________________________________________________b) ______________________________________________________

Which of the following is not true concerning a conceptualframework in accounting? A. It should be a basis forstandard-setting. B. It should allow practical problems to besolved more quickly by reference to it. C. It should be based onfundamental truths that are derived from the laws of nature. D. Allof these answer choices are true.

LO 2.2 Understand the objective of financial reporting. Toprovide financial information about the reporting entity that is_______________ to present and potential equity_________________________________in making decisions aboutproviding resources to the entity.

In other words the objective is_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________.

LO 2.3 Identify the qualitative characteristics of accountinginformation. The qualitative characteristics of accountinginformation distinguish better and more useful information frominferior and less useful information.

a.Fundamental qualities of useful accounting information.

Relevance._______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

(a)Predictive value.:_____________________________________________________________________________________.

(b)Confirmatory value:_________________________________________________________________________________.

(c)Materiality.:_________________________________________________________________________________.

FaithfulRepresentation.___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

(a)Completeness_________________________________________________________

(b)Neutrality_______________________________________________________

(c)Free from error___________________________________________________

b.Enhancing Qualities Enhancing qualities complement thefundamental qualities and include:

Comparability__________________________________________________________________.

Consistency_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Verifiability__________________________________________________________________.

Timeliness__________________________________________________________________.Understandabili_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Select the qualitative characteristics for the followingstatements.

(a) Quality of information that assures users that informationrepresents the economic phenomena that it purports torepresent.

(b) Information about an economic phenomenon that corrects pastor present expectations based on previous evaluations.

(d) Includes all the information that is necessary for afaithful representation of the economic phenomena that it purportsto represent.

(e) Quality of information that allows users to comprehend itsmeaning.

SFAC No. 8 identifies the qualitative characteristics that makeaccounting information useful. Presented below are a number ofquestions related to these qualitative characteristics andunderlying constraint.

(a) What is the quality of information that enables users toconfirm or correct prior expectations?

(b) Identify the pervasive constraint developed in theconceptual framework.

(c) The chairman of the SEC at one time noted, âIf it becomesaccepted or expected that accounting principles are determined ormodified in order to secure purposes other than economicmeasurement, we assume a grave risk that confidence in thecredibility of our financial information system will beundermined.â Which qualitative characteristic of accountinginformation should ensure that such a situation will not occur? (Donot use faithful representation.)

(d) Muruyama Corp. switches from FIFO to averagecost to FIFOover a 2-year period. Which qualitative characteristic ofaccounting information is not followed?

(e) Assume that the profession permits the savings and loanindustry to defer losses on investments it sells because immediaterecognition of the loss may have adverse economic consequences onthe industry. Which qualitative characteristic of accountinginformation is not followed? (Do not use relevance or faithfulrepresentation.)

(f) What are the two fundamental qualities that make accountinginformation useful for decisionmaking?

(g) Watteau Inc. does not issue its first-quarter report untilafter the second quarterâs results are reported. Which qualitativecharacteristic of accounting is not followed? (Do not userelevance.)

(h) Predictive value is an ingredient of which of the twofundamental qualities that make accounting information useful fordecision-making purposes?

(i) Duggan, Inc. is the only company in its industry todepreciate its plant assets on a straight-line basis. Whichqualitative characteristic of accounting information may not befollowed?

(j) Roddick Company has attempted to determine the replacementcost of its inventory. Three different appraisers arrive atsubstantially different amounts for this value. The president,nevertheless, decides to report the middle value for externalreporting purposes. Which qualitative characteristic of informationis lacking in these data? (Do not use relevance or faithfulrepresentation.)

If the LIFO inventory method was used last period, it should beused for the current and following periods because of A.consistency. B. verifiability. C. materiality. D. timeliness.

According to the FASB's conceptual framework, what does theconcept of faithful representation include? A. Predictive value B.Materiality C. Verifiability D. Neutrality

Which of the following is not a basic assumption underlying thefinancial accounting structure? A. Going concern assumption B.Economic entity assumption C. Historical cost assumption D.Periodicity assumption

Under current GAAP, inflation is ignored in accounting due tothe A. periodicity assumption. B. economic entity assumption. C.going concern assumption. D. monetary unit assumption.

Valuing assets at liquidation values rather than cost isinconsistent with the A. historical cost principle. B. materialityconstraint. C. periodicity assumption. D. expense recognitionprinciple.

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8. Write a class called WordSet representing a set of String objects which can contain an arbitrary number of strings, limited only by the memory available to the Java Virtual Machine. A set is a collection of elements, however, unlike a list, a set cannot contain duplicate elements. Therefore, as its name implies, a WordSet object cannot contain duplicate Strings that is, if one attempts to da String to a Wordset, and the wordset already contains an element which is equal to this string, the attempt will fail and the state of the Wordset will not change. All String comparisons performed in the methods defined in the Wordset class are done in a Case SENSITIVE manner. Note that in the method descriptions below, the phrase "this Wordset" means "the Wordset on which the method in question is called." Your Wordset class MUST provide the following INSTANCE methods • A constructor, which takes no parameters and initializes the new Wordset ohject so that it contains no elements • A method called add(), which takes as its only parameter a string and returns a value of type boolean. If this Wordset already contains a string which is equal to the parameter string, or the parameter String is null, then the state of this Wordset does not change and the method return false; otherwise, the parameter String is added to this Wordset. and the method returns true. • A method called remove().which takes as its only parameter a string and returns a value of type boolean. If this wordSet contains a string which is equal to the parameter String this string is removed from the WordSet and the method returns true. On the other hand, if the string parameter is null or this Wordset does not contain a string which is equal to the parameter string, then the state of this wordset does not change, and the method return false. • A method called get.size(), which takes no parameters and returns the number of strings currently stored in this Wordset. This method MUST NOT change the state of this Wordset. • A method called isMember(). which takes as its only parameter a string and retumsa value of type boolean which is true if this wordset contains the parameter String false otherwise. If the parameter String is null, this method also return false. This method MUST NOT change the state of this wordset. • A method called computebirrerence().which takes as its only parameter a Wordset and returns a new Wordset representing the difference between this wordset and the parameter Wordset: in other words, the WordSet returned by this method contains all the strings that are in this wordset, but not in the parameter Wordset. If the parameter Wordset contains all the elements of this WordSet or this WordSet contains no elements, then this method returns a new Wordset containing no elements. Finally, if the parameter Wordset is null or contains ne strings, then this method returns a new wordset which contains all the elements of this wordset. This method MUST NOT change the state of this wordset or the parameter Wordset. • A method called tostring , which takes the parameters and turns a string which is the textual representation of this wordset. This textual representation consists of the concatena tion of the following clements - The String - The text representation of each clement in the WordSet; cach pair of adjacent clements is separated by the String", but this String MUST NOT appear before the first clement or after the last element - The String") The order in which the elements of this Wordset appear in the textual representation generated by the tostring() method does not matter. If the WordSet contains to Brings, then the textual representation returned by this method is ". Note that you MUST respect proper encapsulation practices that is, the attributes and methods of your class MUST be declared using the proper visibility modifier NINT Um an array list (of string) to keep track of the string stored in a wordt ob joot Is there a method defined in the Array loist class which determines whether in clementis already wored in an array ist, and which will do a case-sensitive comparison when liked on an Arraylint of strings? See the pages 24-26 of this examination for information about potentially useful methods defined by the ArrayList class WRITE YOUR Wordset CLASS IN THE SPACE BELOW:

Chapter 2 Conceptual Framework for Financial Reporting

In other words the objective of financial reporting is_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________.