Cost vs Benefit
Cost vs Benefit ~ I learnt this in Management Accounting
I can't believe I'm using it in my situation now and I wanna explain it to my mum.. (Dunno if it works..)
Ok. My situation is like this.
Supposely my family dinner (mother side- grandma's birthday) is on this Sunday.
I have no prob. However, it has change to next Sunday (a day before my FINALS & Man Utd vs Liverpool. To make things worse, I've already missed one family dinner few weeks ago due to Man Utd vs Arsenal match. Such a coincidence.)
Basically mum is forcing me to go. (If it's that so, what for she ask whether I can go. Anyway that's not the point.)
Ok. If I don't go, everyone (including my mind) will thought it's because of the Big Match.
However, even there is no match, I will not go too, coz of my finals.
C'mon... eventhough I have done my revision by that time, I will not go anywhere. I don't go out on the day BEFORE my FINALS no matter how short time it takes.
Apparently, mum doesn't think that way.
To her, every of her family function is above everything.
I realise she is getting more unreasonable lately.
She just can't stand on my position to think.
I feel uneasy to go out on the day before my exams. I just can't. My mind won't be peace at all.
However, part of me feel guilty for not going. As I said, I already missed the last dinner.
That is why, I'm gonna do the Cost vs Benefit of my situation.
(Assume that I've done my revision and the Big Match is not an issue here)
If I go....
Cost: Dinner at 7pm. Leave house at 6pm. Assume 2 hours dinner (including chit-chat among auntiessssss). 10pm reach home. If I go, I've used up 4 hours.
Plus, I won't feel comfortable during the dinner as I will only think of tomoro's paper.
Benefit: I get to have a free dinner.
If I don't go...
Cost: Mum will get pissed off.
Benefit: I will have saved 2 hours from the above. I can study all night long until 9.25pm whereby I will take 2 hours break to watch the Big Match.
So.... it would be better if I choose to stay at home, rite?
Or am I finding excuse not to go so that I can watch the match?
But the Cost and Benefit that I do is the fact.
I will save AT LEAST 2 hours if I choose not to go.
Ok. Let's says my mum still think that the reason of me not going is because of the match.
I still have one thing to defend myself.
All the while, I NEVER go out on the day BEFORE my finals.
She should know about that.
Imagine if I choose to go, then it would be an unusual event, and it means I'm committing fraud. (Learn from auditing~ To assess in fraud risk, analytical procedure is used by auditor to check the unusual events/transactions of the company.)
Ok. I don't make any sense.
Anyway, now what?
I really really really don't want to go. My MAJOR reason is my FINALS.
So how do I tell mum?
Mum, look at my past records. I never gone out on the day before my finals. So you can't say that my reason for not going is because of the football match.
If she replies "I don't care. You finish your revision by that time and you ARE going. It's grandma's birthday and how could you not attend? Everyone is attending."
But I have exam on the next day. Can't you be a bit reasonable?
O.O This will lead to a big fight.
Sigh~ what should I do?
Even I've made up my mind, what should I do?
I can't believe I'm using it in my situation now and I wanna explain it to my mum.. (Dunno if it works..)
Ok. My situation is like this.
Supposely my family dinner (mother side- grandma's birthday) is on this Sunday.
I have no prob. However, it has change to next Sunday (a day before my FINALS & Man Utd vs Liverpool. To make things worse, I've already missed one family dinner few weeks ago due to Man Utd vs Arsenal match. Such a coincidence.)
Basically mum is forcing me to go. (If it's that so, what for she ask whether I can go. Anyway that's not the point.)
Ok. If I don't go, everyone (including my mind) will thought it's because of the Big Match.
However, even there is no match, I will not go too, coz of my finals.
C'mon... eventhough I have done my revision by that time, I will not go anywhere. I don't go out on the day BEFORE my FINALS no matter how short time it takes.
Apparently, mum doesn't think that way.
To her, every of her family function is above everything.
I realise she is getting more unreasonable lately.
She just can't stand on my position to think.
I feel uneasy to go out on the day before my exams. I just can't. My mind won't be peace at all.
However, part of me feel guilty for not going. As I said, I already missed the last dinner.
That is why, I'm gonna do the Cost vs Benefit of my situation.
(Assume that I've done my revision and the Big Match is not an issue here)
If I go....
Cost: Dinner at 7pm. Leave house at 6pm. Assume 2 hours dinner (including chit-chat among auntiessssss). 10pm reach home. If I go, I've used up 4 hours.
Plus, I won't feel comfortable during the dinner as I will only think of tomoro's paper.
Benefit: I get to have a free dinner.
If I don't go...
Cost: Mum will get pissed off.
Benefit: I will have saved 2 hours from the above. I can study all night long until 9.25pm whereby I will take 2 hours break to watch the Big Match.
So.... it would be better if I choose to stay at home, rite?
Or am I finding excuse not to go so that I can watch the match?
But the Cost and Benefit that I do is the fact.
I will save AT LEAST 2 hours if I choose not to go.
Ok. Let's says my mum still think that the reason of me not going is because of the match.
I still have one thing to defend myself.
All the while, I NEVER go out on the day BEFORE my finals.
She should know about that.
Imagine if I choose to go, then it would be an unusual event, and it means I'm committing fraud. (Learn from auditing~ To assess in fraud risk, analytical procedure is used by auditor to check the unusual events/transactions of the company.)
Ok. I don't make any sense.
Anyway, now what?
I really really really don't want to go. My MAJOR reason is my FINALS.
So how do I tell mum?
Mum, look at my past records. I never gone out on the day before my finals. So you can't say that my reason for not going is because of the football match.
If she replies "I don't care. You finish your revision by that time and you ARE going. It's grandma's birthday and how could you not attend? Everyone is attending."
But I have exam on the next day. Can't you be a bit reasonable?
O.O This will lead to a big fight.
Sigh~ what should I do?
Even I've made up my mind, what should I do?
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