Barbara is working on the audit of a client with a group of five other staff-level employees. During the audit, Diane, a member of the group, points out that she identified a deficiency in the clientâs inventory system that she did not discover during the physical observation of the clientâs inventory. The deficiency was relatively minor, and perhaps that is why it was not detected at the time. Barbara suggests to Diane that they bring the matter to Jessica, the senior in charge of the engagement. Diane does not want to do it because she is the one who identified the deficiency and she is the one who should have detected it at the time of the observation. Three of the other four staff members agree with Diane. Haley is the only one, along with Barbara, who wants to inform Jessica.
After an extended discussion of the matter, the group votes and decides not to inform Jessica. Still, Barbara does not feel right about it. She wonders: What if Jessica finds out another way? What if the deficiency is more serious than Diane has said? What if it portends other problems with the client? She decides to raise all these issues but is rebuked by the others who remind her that the team is already behind on its work and any additional audit procedures would increase the time spent on the audit and make them all look incompetent. They remind Barbara that Jessica is a stickler for keeping to the budget and any overages cannot be billed to the client.
Assume you are in Barbaraâs position. What would you do and why? Consider the following in answering the question:
How can you best express your point of view effectively?
What do you need to say, to whom, and in what sequence?
What do you expect the objections or pushback will be, and then what would you say next?
Barbara is working on the audit of a client with a group of five other staff-level employees. During the audit, Diane, a member of the group, points out that she identified a deficiency in the clientâs inventory system that she did not discover during the physical observation of the clientâs inventory. The deficiency was relatively minor, and perhaps that is why it was not detected at the time. Barbara suggests to Diane that they bring the matter to Jessica, the senior in charge of the engagement. Diane does not want to do it because she is the one who identified the deficiency and she is the one who should have detected it at the time of the observation. Three of the other four staff members agree with Diane. Haley is the only one, along with Barbara, who wants to inform Jessica.
After an extended discussion of the matter, the group votes and decides not to inform Jessica. Still, Barbara does not feel right about it. She wonders: What if Jessica finds out another way? What if the deficiency is more serious than Diane has said? What if it portends other problems with the client? She decides to raise all these issues but is rebuked by the others who remind her that the team is already behind on its work and any additional audit procedures would increase the time spent on the audit and make them all look incompetent. They remind Barbara that Jessica is a stickler for keeping to the budget and any overages cannot be billed to the client.
Assume you are in Barbaraâs position. What would you do and why? Consider the following in answering the question:
How can you best express your point of view effectively?
What do you need to say, to whom, and in what sequence?
What do you expect the objections or pushback will be, and then what would you say next?
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Consider a small economy composed of six people: Clancy, Eileen, Hubert, Kate, Poornima, and Manuel. Each person's employment status is described in the following table.
Based on the criteria used by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), identify each person's status as employed, unemployed, not in the labor force, if not in the civilian labor force but still part of the adult population, or not in the adult population if not in the civilian adult population.
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-Clancy is a 20-year-old professional tennis player. When he's not competing, he works as a coach at a local tennis club. | |
-Eileen is a 36-year-old autoworker who was just laid off by her employer. She is trying to find any kind of job to help make ends meet. |
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-Hubert is a 79-year-old retired professor. He enjoys volunteering at the local public library. |
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-Poornima is a 29-year-old who lost her job as an associate producer for a radio station. After spending a few weeks out of work and interviewing for several other positions, she gave up on her job search and decided to go back to grad school. She made that decision a few months ago. |
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-Manuel is a famous novelist. He is spending the summer at his lake house in upstate New York, doing a little writing each day but mostly spending his time gardening and reading. |
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-Kate is an 11-year-old student at East Valley Middle School. She baby-sits her younger brother and does other chores for which her parents give her an allowance of $30 per week. |
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Initially, Ana earns a salary of $300 per year and Yakov earns a salary of $200 per year. Ana lends Yakov $100 for one year at an annual interest rate of 16% with the expectation that the rate of inflation will be 12% during the one-year life of the loan. At the end of the year, Yakov makes good on the loan by paying Ana $116. Consider how the loan repayment affects Ana and Yakov under the following scenarios.
Scenario 1: Suppose all prices and salaries rise by 12% (as expected) over the course of the year. In the following table, find Ana's and Yakov's new salaries after the 12% increase, and then calculate the $116 payment as a percentage of their new salaries. (Hint: Remember that Ana's salary is her income from work and that it does not include the loan payment from Yakov.)
- Value of Ana's new salary after one year?
-The $116 payment as a percentage of Ana's new salary?
-Value of Yakov's new salary after one year
-The $116 payment as a percentage of Yakov's new salary
Scenario 2: Consider an unanticipated decrease in the rate of inflation. The rise in prices and salaries turns out to be 2% over the course of the year rather than 12%. In the following table, find Ana's and Yakov's new salaries after the 2% increase, and then calculate the $116 payment as a percentage of their new salaries.
-Value of Ana's new salary after one year
-The $116 payment as a percentage of Ana's new salary
-Value of Yakov's new salary after one year
-The $116 payment as a percentage of Yakov's new salary