In an indirect message, valid reasons for the refusal are presented before the bad news. Which option is most effective? a.If we accepted your rather dated desktops and laptops, we would risk software incompatibility, high repair bills, and substantial replacement costs for missing input and output devices. b.We're very sorry but our policy does not allow us to accept donations of used computing equipment. c.We had to establish guidelines for the acceptance of used computing equipment because only new computers provide warranties, compatible software, and come with matching peripherals.

Answer:

c.We had to establish guidelines for the acceptance of used computing equipment because only new computers provide warranties, compatible software, and come with matching peripherals.

Explanation:

An indirect message aims to soften bad news, to achieve this goal the message is transmitted through a soothing speech, where there is an explanation of the reasons for the bad news before reaching the fact, in order to cushion the impact that the message may cause. Indirect discourse is more accepted in the case of the transmission of bad news, as individuals generally tend to better understand the facts when they are explained through evidence.

Therefore, the letter c corresponds more adequately to an indirect speech.

Uber and Lyft Drivers Go on Strike This activity is important because fairness gives employees observable evidence of trustworthiness of a manager, company or other source. Managers should know the types of justice and how they can exhibit those to gain trust. Trust is a strong predictor of organizational commitment and a moderate predictor of job performance. The goal of this exercise is to demonstrate your understanding of justice, by reading a case and answering questions that follow. Read the following case about Uber and Lyft and answer the questions that follow. Uber and Lyft drivers went on strike in several U.S. major cities the week of May 6, 2019, holding rallies and, in some cases, drivers not working for 12 to 24 hours. The drivers were protesting a pay decrease per mile and seeking better benefits. Lyft and Uber drivers are independent contractors, so they do not qualify for the same benefits and protections that govern typical employees. Drivers aren't guaranteed minimum wage or overtime, for example. Currently, Uber offers some benefits for high volume drivers, such as discounts on car repair and maintenance. Lyft and Uber have pushed back, with Lyft saying that most drivers work 10 hours or fewer a week and wouldn't qualify for benefits anyway. The timing of the strikes was no accident because Uber faced its IPO (initial public offering) the same week. Since then, Uber reported its largest quarterly loss in August 2019 of $5.2 billion. Furthermore, Lyft's shares fell 20% since its March 2019 IPO. If drivers were considered employees, they would get the same benefits and labor protection of other employees. Legally, they would be entitled to unemployment insurance, health care subsidies, overtime pay and a guaranteed minimum wage, among other rights. The lawsuit currently progressing through the court system in California is projected to be passed into law by the state senate. Uber and Lyft are not the only companies using "gig" workers. For example, another booming business model is food delivery, like Grubhub and DoorDash. Part of these companies' pushback is saying they will not be able to employ as many people due to the costs of benefits. In California, Uber is estimated to have 140,000 drivers and Lyft to have 80,000 drivers. Barclays, a renowned worldwide financial services company, estimated that benefits, payroll taxes and workers compensation would cost Uber $508 million per year and Lyft $290 million per year, assuming the same number of drivers were employed. In June 2019, Uber's and Lyft's top executives joined together to write an op ed in the San Francisco Chronicle to explain their arguments and promise to address the quality of work and job security. In their op ed, the executives sought to provide information to the public and drivers about their positions regarding providing benefits to drivers, showing the desire to increase justice. By relying on a respected source of information (Barclays), the executives appeared to use the rule of Multiple Choice procedural: truthfulness informational; procedure O Interpersonal: Informational O о informational; truthfulness interpersonal: procedure Drivers sought to advocate not just for full-time drivers, but part-time drivers too, seeking justice according to the rule of Multiple Choice О accuracy. propriety O O representativeness. volce. O truthfulness Drivers stated that they should have benefits that represent the number of hours they work, more for full-time drivers and fewer for part-time drivers, in the same way the company provides for their corporate employees. This suggests the drivers' desire for benefits allocated according to . a type of justice. Multiple Choice equity, procedural O need; procedural O O equality procedural U equity, distributive O O need: distributive Because the Uber and Lyft drivers sought a decision through the standard mechanisms of the court system, they appear to have focused on a desire for what type of justice?
a. procedural
b. interpersonal
c. informational
d. interdependent
e. distributive

Cost of Living The City of St. Albans has a unionized police force that is coming up for a contract renewal. The police have one issue: the cost of living increases. During the past 10 years, police officers have received minimal cost of living increases, and this time they want to match what other police forces are making. They claim that their salaries are below the national level. The incoming new police hire earns a salary of $48,200.

Required:
Prepare the data and an argument on behalf of the police officers to support their position.

Barbara, a product manager at an organic soap manufacturing company, is supposed to interview a candidate for a new job opening in her department. The candidate arrives late to the interview, and therefore Barbara assumes that he will be tardy and uninterested in his job as well. Despite the fact that the candidate meets all the job requirements, Barbara rejects the candidate. Which of the following interview errors has Barbara most likely made?
A. The first-impression error.
B. The similarity error.
C. The contrast error.
D. The non-relevancy error.

Elbert Company classifies its selling and administrative expense budget into variable and fixed components. Variable expenses are expected to be $26,770 in the first quarter, and $5,240 increments are expected in the remaining quarters of 2020. Fixed expenses are expected to be $41,680 in each quarter. Prepare the selling and administrative expense budget by quarters and in total for 2020.

Velocity, a consulting firm, enters into a contract to help Burger Boy, a fast-food restaurant, design a marketing strategy to compete with Burger King. The contract spans eight months. Burger Boy promises to pay $93,000 at the end of each month. At the end of the contract, Velocity either will give Burger Boy a refund of $31,000 or will be entitled to an additional $31,000 bonus, depending on whether sales at Burger Boy at year-end have increased to a target level. At the inception of the contract, Velocity estimates an 80% chance that it will earn the $31,000 bonus and calculates the contract price based on the expected value of future payments to be received. At the start of the fifth month, circumstances change, and Velocity revises to 60% its estimate of the probability that it will earn the bonus. At the end of the contract, Velocity receives the additional consideration of $31,000. At the end of the contract, Velocity receives the additional consideration of $29,000.

Required:
a. Prepare the journal entry to record revenue each month for the first four months of the contract.
b. Prepare the journal entry that the Velocity Company would record after four months to recognize the change in estimate associated with the reduced likelihood that the bonus will be received.
c. Prepare the journal entry to record the revenue each month for the second four months of the contract.
d. Prepare the journal entry after eight months to record receipt of the cash bonus.

Questionnaires on situational leadership often ask for respondents to look at specific applications of leadership styles within situations, which may result in _____. Group of answer choices negative perceptions toward organizations a wide range of responses that are hard to validate biased results in favor of situational leadership results that are not in favor of situational leadership

if this paper takes 2 hours and there are 100 questions in all, what is the average time you should spend on each question?​

For the year, Redder Company has cost of goods manufactured of $600,000, beginning finished goods inventory of $200,000, and ending finished goods inventory of $250,000. The cost of goods sold is​

The prepaid insurance account had a balance of $11,300 at the beginning of the year. The account was debited for $12,500 for premiums on policies purchased during the year. Journalize the adjusting entry required under each of the following alternatives for determining the amount of the adjustment:

a. The amount of unexpired insurance applicable to future periods is $2,100.
b. The amount of insurance expired during the year is $14,400

The product life-cycle theory: Select one: a. was a strong predictor of trade patterns during the 1800s. b. was useful for explaining the pattern of trade during the brief period of American global dominance. c. proved to be a poor explanation of world trade patterns during the 1960s and 1970s. d. remains a relevant theory of explaining international trade in the modern world.

Matching. A shopper is in the grocery store, trying to decide whether to buy apples of a particular variety. Identify the food product attribute that most closely corresponds to each scenario. A. The shopper sees bruises on the apple. B. The shopper knows the apple variety tends to have a mealy texture. C. The shopper notices the PLU code, indicating the apple is USDA Organic.

Michelle is an active participant in the rental condominium property she owns. During the year, the property generates a ($15,000) loss; however, Michelle has sufficient tax basis and at-risk amounts to absorb the loss. If Michelle has $115,000 of salary, $10,000 of long-term capital gains, $3,000 of dividends, and no additional sources of income or deductions, how much loss can Michelle deduct

Your company is estimated to make dividends payments of $2.1 next year, $3.6 the year after, and $4.2 in the year after that. The dividends will then grow at a constant rate of 6% per year. If the discount rate is 9% then what is the current stock price

North Company has completed all of its operating budgets. The sales budget for the year shows 50,900 units and total sales of $2,301,800. The total unit cost of making one unit of sales is $23. Selling and administrative expenses are expected to be $303,800. Interest is estimated to be $11,820. Income taxes are estimated to be $200,800. Prepare a budgeted multiple-step income statement for the year ending December 31, 2020.

Multipoint pricing occurs when a company buys products at a cheaper rate in one country to sell at a higher price in another country. allows markets to determine the pricing of a product. aggressively prices in one market to elicit a competitive response from a rival in another market. prices its products at a loss in order to drive out competitors from the market. prices two similar products at low and high prices in order to boost sales of the lower priced products.

Spanolia LLC is estimating its WACC. Its bonds have a 12 percent coupon, paid semiannually, a current maturity of 20 years, and sell for 1,000 USD. The firm's marginal tax rate is 40 percent. What is the after-tax cost of debt

On June 15, Oakley Inc. sells inventory on account to Sunglass Hut (SH) for $3,500, terms 2/10, n/30. On June 20, SH returns to Oakley inventory that SH had purchased for $800. On June 24, SH completely fulfills its obligation to Oakley by making a cash payment. What is the amount of cash paid by SH to Oakley

The following information is available for Pioneer Company:
Sales price per unit is $100. November and December, sales were budgeted at 2,920 and 3,510 units, respectively. Variable costs are 11 percent of sales (6 percent commission, 3 percent advertising, 2 percent shipping). Fixed costs per month are sales salaries, $5,300; office salaries, $2,700; depreciation, $2,900; building rent, $4,000; insurance, $1,500; and utilities, $700..
Required:
Determine Pioneer's budgeted selling and administrative expenses for November and December.

Snug Harbor Realty Co., had a checking account in 1st National Bank. When construction work was obtained by Snug Harbor, its superintendent, Magee, would examine the bills submitted for labor and materials. He would instruct the bookkeeper which bills were approved, and the bookkeeper then prepared the checks in accordance with his instructions. After the checks were signed by the proper official of Snug Harbor, Magee picked them up for delivery. Instead of delivering certain checks, he forged the signatures of the respective payees as endorsers and cashed the checks. The drawee bank then debited the Snug Harbor account with the amount of the checks. Snug Harbor claimed this was improper and sued the bank for the amount of the checks. The bank claimed it was protected by the impostor rule.

Required:
Will the bank be successful?

Carmelo, the editor of a business department of a national news magazine, went through a sequence of jobs in the company before he achieved this position. He joined as a staff reporter, then got promoted to technology reporter, then to editor of the business department, and then to deputy managing editor before achieving his current position. This is __________.

Select the true statement about default risk. It is the risk that the bond's price will fall below its par value. Bondholders have a degree of legal protection against default risk, but it is not comprehensive. Default risk relates to a bond's periodic coupon payments, but not to its maturity payment. Bondholders are guaranteed to be repaid in full if a company enters bankruptcy.

Hillary graduates from law school and gets a position in a law firm. At the same time the price of hamburger falls while other food prices have stayed the same. She notices that she buys less hamburger than she did before. Is she violating the law of demand?

John received a promotion at work and felt new clothes would be necessary in the new position. John went to a local store and charged three ties on his charge account at a cost of $60 each. Bill, a friend of John's, saw a sidewalk vendor selling ties at a cost of three for $10 and bought three at that price. The friends compared purchases that night and found that they had purchased identical ties. John became enraged and said that he would not pay the charge-account bill because the ties were clearly not worth $60 each. Bill indicated that he would testify on John's behalf if litigation ensued. What would be the probable outcome of the lawsuit

Inventory by Three Methods The units of an item available for sale during the year were as follows:
Jan.1 Inventory 26 units at $200 per unit
Feb. 19 Purchase 57 units at $230 per unit
June 8 Purchase 60 units at $520 per unit
Oct. 7 Purchase 56 units at $275 per unit
There are 47 units of the item in the physical inventory at December 31. The periodic inventory system is used. Determine the inventory cost under each of the following methods.
a. Determine the inventory cost by the first-in, first-out method.
b. Determine the inventory cost by the last-in, first-out method
c. Determine the inventory cost by the average cost method. Do not round intermediate calculation and round final answer to the nearest whole value.

The Assembly Department for Right pens has the following production data for the current month.
Beginning Work in Process Units Transferred Out Ending Work in Process
0 15,000 10,000
Materials are entered at the beginning of the process. The ending work in process units are 50% complete as to conversion costs.
Compute the equivalent units of production for (a) materials and (b) conversion costs.

Galactic Inc. manufactures flying drone toys. Sales units for January, February, March, April and May were 320, 300, 372, 332, and 400 respectively. Budgeted production in units for January, February, and March were 315, 318, and 362 respectively. Each unit requires 3 direct labor hours and Galactic’s hourly labor rate is $16 per hour. The company’s variable overhead is $5.00 per unit produced and its fixed overhead is $5,600 per month..

Required:
a. Determine Galactic's direct labor budget for the first quarter.
b. Determine Galactic's manufacturing overhead budget for the first quarter

For its first year of operations, Tringali Corporation's reconciliation of pretax accounting income to taxable income is as follows: Pretax accounting income $ 280,000 Permanent difference (15,500 ) 264,500 Temporary difference-depreciation (19,300 ) Taxable income $ 245,200 Tringali's tax rate is 25%. Assume that no estimated taxes have been paid. What should Tringali report as its income tax expense for its first year of operations

As a result of a thorough physical inventory, Sheridan Company determined that it had inventory worth $320800 at December 31, 2020. This count did not take into consideration the following facts: Herschel Consignment currently has goods worth $46300 on its sales floor that belong to Sheridan but are being sold on consignment by Herschel. The selling price of these goods is $74900. Sheridan purchased $22000 of goods that were shipped on December 27, FOB destination, that will be received by Sheridan on January 3. Determine the correct amount of inventory that Sheridan should report.

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Columbus Inc. sells a high end hair dryer in a super competitive marketplace. As a result, market research and competitive pressures influence the determination of their selling price. Their marketing department has done a comprehensive analysis and It looks like a price of $62 would be appropriate given the present business environment. The company has a goal of earning $32 on each unit. What is the target unit cost of each hair dryer