Answer:
an occupation undertaken for a significant period of a person's life and with opportunities for progress.
Answer:
satisficing
Explanation:
Satisficing is a combination of "satisfy" and "suffice" (or enough). It refers to a situation where instead of trying to reach a completely satisfying solution, you just settle for a relatively good or a so-so solution.
Personally I believe it is something that borders mediocrity, since you should either do something right or do not do it at all. It is like doing something that might work, but not completely.
Answer:
1. To reduce the company's tax bill, Jack uses total cost to value inventory instead of using product cost as required by law.
- Competence: accounting records must follows applicable laws, regulations and standards, you must IRA and GAAP rules when preparing financial statements and tax reports.
2. Since Emilie works in the accounting department, she is aware that profits are going to fall short of analysts' projections. She tells her aunt to sell stock in the company before the earnings release date.
- Confidentiality: accounting records must b confidential unless you are authorized to disclose them, and you are not authorized to disclose the information to your aunt.
3. Veronica pays a Mexican official a bribe of $50,000 to allow the company to locate a factory in that jurisdiction so that the company can take advantage of the cheaper labor costs. Without the bribe, the factory cannot be located in that location.
- Integrity: you must abstain from performing illegal activities, and bribery is illegal.
4. There is a failure in the company's backup system after a system crash. Month-end reports will be delayed. Kayla, the manager of the division experiencing the system failure, does not report this upcoming delay to anyone since she does not want to be the bearer of bad news.
- Credibility: you must report all relevant and important information regardless of whether that information will make you bad or not.
If the customer wants "to table" the discussion on price then I assume he wants to hold it for later ie not deal with it right now but defer it to a later date perhaps to when more data is available either from Melanie or from him to be able to make the discussion more meaningful.
