Building Blocks

1 Chronicles 3: 1 – 24

Building Blocks

3 Now these were the sons of David who were born to him in Hebron: The firstborn was Amnon, by Ahinoam the Jezreelitess; the second, Daniel, by Abigail the Carmelitess; 2 the third, Absalom the son of Maacah, the daughter of Talmai, king of Geshur; the fourth, Adonijah the son of Haggith; 3 the fifth, Shephatiah, by Abital; the sixth, Ithream, by his wife Eglah. 4 These six were born to him in Hebron. There he reigned seven years and six months, and in Jerusalem he reigned thirty-three years. 5 And these were born to him in Jerusalem: Shimea, Shobab, Nathan, and Solomon—four by Bathshua the daughter of Ammiel. 6 Also there were Ibhar, Elishama, Eliphelet, 7 Nogah, Nepheg, Japhia, 8 Elishama, Eliada, and Eliphelet—nine in all. 9 These were all the sons of David, besides the sons of the concubines, and Tamar their sister. 10 Solomon’s son was Rehoboam; Abijah was his son, Asa his son, Jehoshaphat his son, 11 Joram his son, Ahaziah his son, Joash his son, 12 Amaziah his son, Azariah his son, Jotham his son, 13 Ahaz his son, Hezekiah his son, Manasseh his son, 14 Amon his son, and Josiah his son. 15 The sons of Josiah were Johanan the firstborn, the second Jehoiakim, the third Zedekiah, and the fourth Shallum. 16 The sons of Jehoiakim were Jeconiah his son and Zedekiah his son. 17 And the sons of Jeconiah were Assir, Shealtiel his son, 18 and Malchiram, Pedaiah, Shenazzar, Jecamiah, Hoshama, and Nedabiah. 19 The sons of Pedaiah were Zerubbabel and Shimei. The sons of Zerubbabel were Meshullam, Hananiah, Shelomith their sister, 20 and Hashubah, Ohel, Berechiah, Hasadiah, and Jushab-Hesed—five in all. 21 The sons of Hananiah were Pelatiah and Jeshaiah, the sons of Rephaiah, the sons of Arnan, the sons of Obadiah, and the sons of Shechaniah. 22 The son of Shechaniah was Shemaiah. The sons of Shemaiah were Hattush, Igal, Bariah, Neariah, and Shaphat—six in all. 23 The sons of Neariah were Elioenai, Hezekiah, and Azrikam—three in all. 24 The sons of Elioenai were Hodaviah, Eliashib, Pelaiah, Akkub, Johanan, Delaiah, and Anani—seven in all.

As I was going over this chapter the one thing that kept crying out to me is that the continued listing of who begot who are presented to all mankind with the purpose of the development of ‘Building blocks.’ Here our Precious Holy Spirit started with a foundation and is expertly building to the revealing of the end Greatest Person Who ever existed, our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

As I entered my college years my first interest was in Accounting. Although I never went into this field after obtaining my bachelor’s degree, my Great and Awesome Holy God allowed me to add this type of knowledge to be utilized for future use such as the study of genealogies in the bible like we see in the book of 1st Chronicles.

A building block is a package of functionality defined to meet the business needs across an organization. It has published interfaces to access the functionality and may interoperate with other, inter-dependent, building blocks.

A good building block has the following characteristics:

It considers implementation and usage and evolves to exploit technology and standards.

It may be assembled from other building blocks.

It may be a subassembly of other building blocks.

Ideally a building block is re-usable and replaceable, and well. specified.

A building block may have multiple implementations but with different inter-dependent building blocks.

A building block is therefore simply a package of functionality defined to meet business needs. The way in which functionality, products, and custom developments are assembled into building blocks will vary widely between individual architectures. Every organization must decide for itself what arrangement of building blocks works best for it. A good choice of building blocks can lead to improvements in legacy system integration, interoperability, and flexibility in the creation of new systems and applications.

Systems are built up from collections of building blocks, so most building blocks must interoperate with other building blocks. Wherever that is true, it is important that the interfaces to a building block are published and reasonably stable.

The department of Accounting is an important subsection of the overall building block of a Corporate Enterprise. A novice in this field must undergo a continued block upon block of basic accounting principles. Understanding the basic building blocks in accounting makes it much easier to grasp the more advanced accounting concepts. These are the basic terms that one must become familiar with in accounting:

. Income

. Expenses

. Assets

. Liabilities

. Owner's Equity

. Debit

. Credit

It is the managerial accountant’s job to provide correct information to all internal managers. In other words, the costing information gathered must be factual and truthful, as in 'what is the cost that reflects the actual use of the resources and processes'. Therefore, truth corresponds to facts and when applied to Management Accounting it translates to resources in operation creates a factual situation. Obviously, the resources and operations about which a manager makes decisions on are based on the factual and accurate information. The manager's decision will act to change the current situation since the manager is interested in the economic impact of the possible outcomes.