Shuying Zheng

UWP 1
Professor Hemstrom

Feb. 27, 2017

Assignment part 2

In the accounting discourse community, there are diverse group

of people make up the community, such as students like me who are

undergraduate and major in related areamanagerial economics,

teacher assistant in school who are pursuing their master degree,

professor in accounting courses, advisors in major department, and

accountants who work in the firms. In addition, people who are

interested in accounting discourse community also make up the

community.

Here in UC Davis, we have an accounting club on campus which

is Davis Accounting Society(DAS). This is a group of students who are

involved in the community. According to their website Davis

Accounting Society, DAS is a business organization on campus which

will give members different kinds of accounting resources, and help

them to be successful in the business world. This accounting club will

host several workshops each quarter which will improve members

professional skills, such as networking, resume and cover letter writing.

In addition, they also have guest speakers from different firms come to

the meetings. They have a Facebook page, which is one of the ways

they communicate information. Other than that, they also have

meetings and presentations throughout the quarter. Those are good

ways for mind-liked students to meet each other and communicate.

Generally, in this club which is part of this discourse community, their

genres are PowerPoint, meetings, and etc. I am really looking forward

to join this club since I might get many information from this society

which will help with my understanding of this discourse community and

career field. I can have the chance to meet the guest speakers and get

to know different aspect of accounting.

Besides getting to know the accounting club in Davis, I also want

to talk to some expert in the discourse community so that I can really

see how people work in this field and how they communicate in this

field. Accountants who work for a firm are also involved in the

community. I interviewed a CPA named Jian Zhu, who works in public

accounting and is a Senior Tax Accountant at Seiler LLP. He told me

that there are formal and informal ways of communication with

different people in the office. You can call your co-workers extension to

talk with them. Email, chat, and text message are the main forms of

communication. However, he told me that the way they communicate

is depends on ones preference and your comfort level. For genres,

they dont have to write a lot of formal papers, instead, they have to

prepare different kinds of financial statements. According to my

textbook, Financial Accounting: Information for Decision (Wild), there

are some financial statements prepared from the analysis of business

transactions, such as income statement, statement of retained

earnings, balance sheet, statement of cash flows, and statement of

changes in stockholders equity. Financial statements also are the ways

for accountants to provide information to their clients, so that their

clients have clear understanding about how their company perform

during a period of time.

By recognizing what groups of people are involved in the

community help me have better understanding of how to find out

resources for my research and benefit my education and future career.

Cover memo

For the assignment part 2, I still dont know what kind of mode

will I use for this project. I have questions about the differences among

these three parts of assignment because I felt like part 1 and 2 of this

assignment will be included in part 3, then the content might be

repetitive.

I was not sure about should I write about the analysis of my

interview transcription or should I analysis of the people who make up

the community one by one since my interviewer also a person who

make up and is involved in this discourse community. Moreover, we

have to write about the methods they use for communicating

information, so is writing about my interviewer a good source to

support my analysis?
 Works Cited

Zhu, Jian. (2017). Interview conducted February 22, 2017.

Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. (2017) Accountancy. Retrieved

February 27, 2017, from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accounting

Reference for Business. (2017) Retrieved February 27, 2017, from

http://www.referenceforbusiness.com/small/A-Bo/Accounting.html

Wild, John. (2017). Financial Accounting: Information for Decision.

Chapter 1 Introducing Financial Accounting Page 22. Retrieved

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