My ReWe Homework for Tomorrow

I wanted my next blog to be about all the pictures I took on holiday; the one after that was supposed to be my school schedule. But I am not getting either of those done right now, so I thought I'd share what I am doing: my ReWe homework.

Homework is an interesting predicament for a number of reasons:

1. I don't know what ReWe stands for, in German or English.
   
2. It is in German.
3. It is, I think, business-math related.
4. I have only been in this school for 2 weeks.

My usual procedure for tackling homework is to first decide what I think is going on. Then, if it's a worksheet, as I translate it I highlight the words I translate (amazingly, I don't have to translate over 50% of them - just the important ones) using a color-coding system. Yellow is for words that I find, no problem, in the dictionary and then write down. Orange is for words where I have to look up parts and then guess from there. And green is for words that I am pretty sure I know what they mean and will look up later if I get confused. I skip this part if it's in a textbook, because I have to give those back.
Then I write out everything auf English in a notebook, and then answer the questions on the same page. I would like to not have to write out the English translation, but I'm so bad at story problems and such as-is that I think not having it written out would make me completely worthless.

In this particular example, I got the first 2 paragraphs in half an hour. This is pretty normal time for me, but this is due tomorrow and I simply don't have the time, so I am using the computer instead of a dictionary. First I stick the whole thing in Google Translator and then I write it down in the proper word order. If something doesn't make sense (which is often when using a translator) I stick that word in Leo and see what I get.

This is what it looks like today:

12. 01. S. 56 n° 56

The cost of purchase of a machine that on 3.Jan.07 was ordered/bought (see Footnote S.56 n°1) amounts to 200.000,-€. The expected useful life length averages 10 years.

a) Determine by linear depreciation each of the write-off amounts & rate of depreciation.

b) What is the applied tax-rate for the depreciation of AfA?

c) Set the write-off amounts for depreciation and decreasing linear (something) for at least the first four years in a table to determine the book or residual value for each year.

d) Book for the first year of machinery depreciation. Set up the following accounts: TA and equipment, depreciation on fixed assets, profit and loss account, final account balance.

And as I finish translating this, I realize that to ever have a chance of having a clue, I would need to translate the entire last page. And I am simply not up to it today. I still have BWL (don't know what that means either) and Mathe homework - and I think a little bit of Spanisch. Thank Pizarro that I still remember how to conjugate gustar - both ways. That verb translates so much better into German than into English!

Good luck with YOUR homework.