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My accounting textbook: Written by trekkies
Posted: 2003-09-04 10:58pm
by Joe
A few problems:
Catherine Janeway Company's weekly payroll, paid on Fridays, totals $6,000. Journalize.
Beverly Crusher is a licensed CPA. Journalize her office transactions.
(one of the transactions):
Received cash of $2,300 for services completed for Ferengi Co.
Presented below are selected ledger accounts of Spock Corporation.
Posted: 2003-09-04 11:06pm
by aerius
Crusher's a hooker? I could never have guessed, services completed indeed.
Posted: 2003-09-04 11:38pm
by zombie84
thats fucking great! at least this proves that trekkies are of some value to society.
Posted: 2003-09-04 11:39pm
by Nathan F
zombie84 wrote:thats fucking great! at least this proves that trekkies are of some value to society.
Just a bit better than Warsies.
(I'm a trekkie, if you couldn't guess)
Posted: 2003-09-04 11:54pm
by neoolong
Truthfully, stuff like this gets kind of annoying after a while in textbooks.
Posted: 2003-09-05 12:38am
by DPDarkPrimus
Please scan the said pages.
Posted: 2003-09-05 12:45am
by neoolong
One of my physics books had a problem about characters from Ender's Game.
Posted: 2003-09-05 01:14am
by kojikun
References to something relatively obscure like Ender's Game is cool, but that thing with Trek.. gah
Posted: 2003-09-05 01:18am
by Howedar
My calculus book in high school had a few Star Wars problems.
Posted: 2003-09-05 09:30am
by greenmm
They did it all the time in my accounting textbooks, too. Not just Star Trek, but other famous names as well.
Posted: 2003-09-05 04:19pm
by Jadeite
I had a chemistry study guide this year want me to translate Warp 5 into knots per second
Posted: 2003-09-05 04:23pm
by Batman
Jadeite wrote:I had a chemistry study guide this year want me to translate Warp 5 into knots per second
*blinks*
Apart from the stupidity of translating speed into acceleration, what is this doing in a
chemistry guide???
Posted: 2003-09-05 05:13pm
by Kamakazie Sith
Jadeite wrote:I had a chemistry study guide this year want me to translate Warp 5 into knots per second
It can't be done, the warp scale constantly changes from episode to episode.....
Posted: 2003-09-05 05:30pm
by Mitth`raw`nuruodo
My Geometry book has a whole section devoted to measuring Star Trek ships on a 3-dimensional graph-thingy...
Re: My accounting textbook: Written by trekkies
Posted: 2003-09-06 02:51am
by Peregrin Toker
Durran Korr wrote:A few problems:
Catherine Janeway Company's weekly payroll, paid on Fridays, totals $6,000. Journalize.
Janeway?? Is that actually a real-life surname?? If it is, it surely ranks up there with "Lovecraft" and "Hitchcock" in the Hall Of Weird Surnames.
Posted: 2003-09-06 02:57am
by Darth Wong
It's not annoying unless it's overly prevalent. If, say, 10% of the questions in the text involved Trek characters, it would be pretty obvious that the author has problems.
Posted: 2003-09-06 03:27am
by neoolong
Kamakazie Sith wrote:Jadeite wrote:I had a chemistry study guide this year want me to translate Warp 5 into knots per second
It can't be done, the warp scale constantly changes from episode to episode.....
Somehow, I don't think that was the right answer.
Posted: 2003-09-06 03:39am
by Howedar
What was the right answer? I too am curious how you can translate speed into acceleration.
Posted: 2003-09-06 09:38am
by The Cleric
I got to convert lightspeed into inches per second yesterday. That's a big number.
Posted: 2003-09-06 09:58am
by Gandalf
I used to put Trek/Wars references in my school assignments, I once wrote a story about some country where the capital was named Coruscant and it was run by President Palpatine. It also had an Admiral named Motti.
Never seen it in a textbook though.