The fears of the american people that reflects on the law is based on jail time, and a ticket.
Criterion 3 known as usefulness
<span>virtue ethics is an approach to Ethics that emphasizes an individual's character as the key element of ethical thinking, rather than rules about the acts themselves or their consequences.</span>
This practice decreases fraudulent activity by supporting documentation procedure principle of control activities.
Explanation:
In professional and educational institute there is a norm to give transport allowance and dearness allowance for attending educational trip, assignments or meetings. But for that the party need to show valid receipt of tickets, fooding and lodging bill. Otherwise some disloyal person will take advantage of it and will try to withdraw more money by not showing the actual spent amount.
Here University medical center is giving reimburse for travel expenses and meal for attending a medical conference. But for that the receipt of meal is required otherwise many of the professors and students will take the charges of alcohol by adding it's price with the meal. So, documentation procedures need to be followed to avoid this discrepancy.
The sentence is basically saying that even though they knew they were late for the appointment they still decided to stop and have a picnic