The general monitoring problem implies that:

A. government must intervene to protect national goals.
B. competition will ensure common goals among the owners and managers of a firm.
C. profit maximization should always be a firm's goal.
D. there is a cost of supervising employees so that they work toward the owner's goals rather than their own.


Answer: D

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