Preparing Payroll Records

1. The social security tax was established on August 14th, 1935. The purpose of establishing Social Security tax was to give retirement benefits to the primary worker of a family, mainly meaning the "man of the house", during the Great Depression, and the primary worker's family was not added onto the social security tax until 1939 along with survivors.


2. Since its inception, the total social security payments that have been made out to beneficiaries is $594.5 billion as of 2007.

3. Social Security should not be paid to those who do not wish to work, because that is taking advantage of something that should be going to someone else who deserves it. If they want money so bad then today's people need to get off their butts and actually earn it.

http://www.justfacts.com/socialsecurity.essentials.asp#Overview

http://www.ssa.gov/

http://www.ehow.com/about_4586912_what-purpose-social-security.html

Quickbooks

Quickbooks is used to automate most manual tasks that people have to repeat over and over again in order to save time. Processes normally done by hand, such as balance sheets and income statements, Accounts Payable and Accounts Recievable reports, Sales and purchases reports, Account registers, the customer and vendor reports, inventory reports, and sometimes payroll reports, are examples of the tasks that QuickBooks automates.

Quickbooks and other programs have been making the accounting process about as easy as writing out a check, and people who have no experience in accounting can do advanced accounting methods.

Of course, having experience in Accounting should be necessary. You can not always depend on the program to teach you everything, and if you had experience, you should probably have an even easier time using the programs such as QuickBooks and Peachtree.

http://www.qbalance.com/AutomatedAccounting.htm

http://www.cse-online.com/quickbooks/QBAutomation.aspx

Communication Overload

There are many advantages to using E-mail in business, such as how you can communicate conveniently with your co-workers and also people that are not in the same location as you. It can also send out information to more than one person at a time, make appointments, and it is easier to filter than regular mail. It is also much faster than sending mail through UPS or FEDEX, or something similar, and also less expensive. You can send entire documents through email for free and it will arrive instantly. If shipping was used though, you would have to pay for it and it would also take time to arrive at it's destination.

However, there are many disadvantages to using E-mail in business. Some people get an "E-mail Overload" which is when they have recieved to many messages and spend more time reading or sorting them than actually working, and sometimes might not be reading all messages because of the large quantity of them and may miss something extremely important. E-mail is also not the most secure form of communication because some companies check E-mail communications from time to time. They might also check if a problem is suspected. Even deleting a message is not 100% safe. Even if you delete a message that is not meant to be seen, it does not mean that it was deleted from the system completly. Many companies back up the computer's and save all data, which includes e-mail files, even possibly deleted e-mail files.

I do not use E-mail all that much. I have an AOL account but I only check it about once every week. I mostly just get chain letters from my cousins. Instead of E-mailing my friends I just message them on Myspace. The only information I get is The Spanish Word of the Day, my Itunes reciepts, and my Myspace updates, but I always get them instantly. E-mail is easier to navigate through and find a particular message than regular mail, which I do happen to lose or misplace quite often, and E-mail is just easier for me since I can save it and filter it.

Spring Break 2009

This year for Spring Break I basically did nothing. We were supposed to go on vacation the first weekend in spring break but my dad got sick so we ended up going the next weekend.

We had fun and I got to see Tyler Perry's: Madea Goes to Jail, and it was one of the funniest things that I think I have ever seen. After we left Midland, my parents told me to drive home and of course the road from Midland to Lamesa is a two way road, which I hate...

I got stuck behind this stupid eighteen-wheeler that was going about 30 miles per hour on a 70 road. I actually would have passed it except for the fact that it was impossible to due to all the cars on the other side of the road. So it actually took about 3 hours to get home from Midland when it normally takes only an hour and a half.

So yeah, that is basically all that I did for Spring Break.