Need help with homework :) (interviewee needed for accounting!)

[shelleyd2008]

Before anyone freaks, this is homework-help I'm supposed to get, I'm not trying to cheat

This is the question I need to answer:
Interview a friend or family member about his/her work environment. Is his/her organization a sole proprietorship, partnership, or corporation? Who is involved with the accounting decisions and information? In what ways is your friend or family member affected by the accounting information?

So, since you all are my family, could someone be my interviewee?? My only family here is my dad, who doesn't work, and is not here anyway. I haven't lived here long enough to make 'friends', and I'm on dial-up. Plus it's almost 10:30 for most everyone I know, and the others are an hour later.

Tip: A sole proprietorship is an owner/operator type
of establishment

Thanks to anyone that can help!

 

[mamaKate]

you might change the question to show you need to interview somebody. Sorry I'm not the sort of person you're looking for.

 

[shelleyd2008]

Quote:
Thanks, I did that

 

[maplesky7]

ok maybe? Haven't run a business for 2 years.

Used to own a lawn care-landscape/ snow plow/ handy man type service. Sole proprietor. My husband started the business approximately 12 years ago and ran it for 10 years before feeling led to join the U.S. Army active duty.

The decisions fell solely on my husband and I. We were affected by the accounting information because it was our bread and butter. One has to bid in relationship to covering overhead costs (i.e. company liability insurance, workman's comp., bus. auto, material, wages...) and worth earning enough to bring home to put food on the table and pay mortgage and raise a family...

Sometimes it wasn't enough to make ends meet. Sometimes people wanted to pay us as if our services were something one would equate a highschool kid would earn, not realizing the liability of? say a person on their roof cleaning the leaves from the gutters. Some people would tell my husband they were a widow or a single mom and didn't have money and my husband was a soft hearted guy when it came to that but essentially working for anything barely covering overhead was robbing our own table. Sometimes people just don't get that. No offense because perhaps many of us have been there before... wanting or needing a service that seems just out of reach... but at the beginning and at the end of the day that person has a family to feed and if there are any workers...they have bills and a family to pay for as well.

Lesson: Charge what you need to cover costs and make it worth your sweat and if they say no... walk away. More work will come. It's tough but have faith.

 

[shelleyd2008]

Thanks maplesky, that will work!

 

[maplesky7]

Oh good. And you're welcome.

 

[Thomas423]

I sent you a PM