Ricardo suspects his supervisor Simone of unethical accounting practices. But Ricardo does not want to report Simone if she will find out who reported her and fire Ricardo. An important feature of online reporting systems like EthicsPoint is that an employee reporting unethical behavior
a. can do so anonymously.
b. is financially compensated if he or she is fired as a result of a report.
c. must fully identify themselves when making a report.
d. must have additional employee support to make a report.
A
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A. how often there is a shipment from the distribution center. B. the simplicity of the merchandise. C. the needs of the customers shopping at the store. D. well-trained, design-oriented managers. E. legal requirements.
Negotiators are rarely in the position for collective definition of what is right or fair as a part of the negotiation process.
Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)
Which of the following statements about publicity is true?
A. If a firm has a really new message, publicity may be less useful than advertising. B. It includes posts on a company's website, viral videos, word-of-mouth communication, a company's Facebook page, and its "tweets" on Twitter. C. It is any paid form of nonpersonal presentation of ideas, goods, or services by a sponsor. D. It tries to attract attention to the firm and its offerings by paying substantial media costs. E. It is the main form of mass selling, which includes only the use of traditional media.
Which of the following statements is CORRECT?
A. In the WACC calculation, we must adjust the cost of preferred stock (the market yield) to reflect the fact that 70% of the dividends received by corporate investors are excluded from their taxable income. B. We should use historical measures of the component costs from prior financings that are still outstanding when estimating a company's WACC for capital budgeting purposes. C. The cost of new equity (re) could possibly be lower than the cost of retained earnings (rs) if the market risk premium, risk-free rate, and the company's beta all decline by a sufficiently large amount. D. Its cost of retained earnings is the rate of return stockholders require on a firm's common stock. E. The component cost of preferred stock is expressed as rp(1 - T), because preferred stock dividends are treated as fixed charges, similar to the treatment of interest on debt.