I think the most appropriate answer would be C.
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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.
Answer: Option E
Explanation: In simple words, the group of factors outside the organisation that are not in the control of the management are called external environment. The legal-political dimension refers to the rules and legislation passed by the authorities for effective operating of the society as a whole.
In the given case, the inspection leading to safety upgrade was done done by the govt. Such requirement depicts that the safety structure was not as per the law passed or rule made.
Hence, from the above we can conclude that the correct option is E.
Stocks pay interest to investors through the year. Bonds only pay interest at fixed time during the year.
