Management Accounting presenta(sham)tion

Well, this is easily the best presentation of all time. You have to see to believe how a Professor can make 20-25 year adults run for cover.

The whole affair was reduced to a viva-voce, and how I hate them! People come, customarily open the ppt, if you answer Professor Bansal’s one question, he says ‘Thank you’ and you are done. But if he says ‘thaenk youuu’, you know what it means.

Rahul-bubbly-avasthi strolls confidently, opens his company ppt, ‘Sir, Zuari Ltd is basically…’ ‘I know what zuari does. Do you have cash flow statement?’ Hey, we weren’t supposed to put them in ppt. How can you see those small figures in a ppt slide anyway?
Avasthi meekly replies ‘No sir. But..’. ‘Thaenk youuu’. Strike one.


Vikas Pasrija:  Prof: ‘Do you have cash flow statement?’ ‘Yes sir .I do’. Oops! Downloaded the wrong file. ‘Thaenk youuu’. Strike two.

Amol: Sits in the last bench. Didn’t know that his group had been called. Runs to the stage. Irritated prof, ‘Are you not interested? ‘ ‘Ssss….Sorry’. ‘Alright. Show me cash flow statement’. ‘Hey. I was supposed to do group presentation’. Thaenk…

Myself: Goes to the stage. Blurts out, ‘Sir, mine is an exports company’. Prof retorts ‘Do you know the foreign exchange policy?’ Ha haa. Bach gaya.

Bandaru: Poor chap. Couldn’t find the file. Nervous Bandaru frantically searches the ppt in the cluttered desktop. (Imagine having 60 ppts with most of them having the same name ‘Accounting policies of so and so company’). Theank youuu.

Pranshu Gupta: She has the same problem as bandaru. Prof waits patiently. Not fair at all, Professor.

Gives a break. Everyone runs like hell to add cash flow statements, B/L and P&L statements.

Murphy’s law: If you perceive that there are four possible ways in which something can go wrong, and circumvent these, then a fifth way, unprepared for, will promptly develop.

Example-Puneet Bansal: Chap thinks he covered cash flow analysis, P&L, B/L.
Prof: ‘Can you show the company’s board of directors?’ What the hell.

I could remember only so much.