New Technology. A Universal Panacea

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New Technology. A Universal Panacea?

• Dr. Wendy Beekes
• Department of Accounting and Finance
• Lancaster University

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New Technology. A Universal Panacea?

• Introduction
• PowerPoint blessing or curse?
• How I use PowerPoint in my teaching
• Personal Response system

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New Technology. A Universal Panacea?

• Advantages of using PowerPoint
• Looks polished and professional
• Makes you consider the structure of the lecture
  in more depth
• Enables sequences to be built up
• Drag and drop slides into other courses using
  slide manager

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New Technology. A Universal Panacea?

• Disadvantages of using PowerPoint
• Cant adjust presentation locked in
• Slide show and passive approach at the movies!
• Potentially endless hours of preparation

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New Technology. A Universal Panacea?
If all else fails....
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New Technology. A Universal Panacea?

• How do I use PowerPoint?
• Animations
• Sequences of items
• Graphs
• Cartoons from Clip Art

• What about handouts?

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Recent Developments andStrategic Management
Accounting

• Changes to Practice

Adoption of ABC systems Standard costing still
useful Total Quality Management Reporting on
non-financial measures
What changes have been made since the 1980s?
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Pension Expense

• Pension Settlement Rate (1994 - 1998)

Source RCJ (2002) Chapter 14
Year
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Pension Expense

• Pension Plan Entities and Relationships

Plan Sponsor The firm establishes the pension
plan
Plan Beneficiaries Employees of the plan sponsor
Sponsor funds the plan by transferring assets to
plan trustee
Trustee distributes pension payments to retired
plan beneficiaries
Source RCJ (2002) Chapter 14
Plan Trustee Legal entity that has custody of
plan assets
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New Technology. A Universal Panacea?

• What do I hate about PowerPoint?
• Cant scrub out things tippex is not an
  option!

• Coloured Patterned backgrounds
• Certain animations - Swivel Crawl from left

Very annoying
Tedious!
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New Technology. A Universal Panacea?

• Using the Personal Response System
• Ask the Audience
• Demo by Dr Caroline Elliott (Economics)
• Instant feedback/response from students
• Very useful for shy students anonymous
• Contact AVS

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New Technology. A Universal Panacea?

• How do I use the PRS system
• Revision session for large groups
• In class for MSc students
• Advantages and disadvantages

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New Technology. A Universal Panacea?

• Conclusions
• PowerPoint a universal panacea?
• PRS system a universal panacea?
• Use technology well and is is great!