Peter jones, a senior accountant, and mary miller, a junior accountant, were the only accountants for xyz company, a medium-sized business. peter had been with the company for over four years and was responsible for the purchasing department. mary had been working at the company for a little over five years, and she had neither applied for a vacation nor taken any days off in the last three years. she was responsible for cash receipts and disbursements. she also collected the cash from the cash register, counted it and matched it with cash register receipts, made a record of daily receipts, and then put the money in the safe. once a week, she would take the paperwork to her supervisor, susan lowe, one of the managers, who would check it. mary later resigned from the company. at the time of her resignation, peter was asked to handle mary's responsibilities while the company looked for a person to replace her. peter soon realized that there had been some manipulation of accounting records and embezzlement of funds. investigations revealed that approximately $30,000 had been stolen. what could the management of xyz company have done to prevent mary's embezzlement or to detect the fraud earlier?

2. the external environment (connect)choose whether each example belongs in the general, task, or internal environment.exampleenvironmenta worldwide recession task environment / general environment / internal environmentlocal mothers asking their community grocery store to carry no-salt cheerios-type cereal for their babies task environment / general environment / internal environmentchoose the phrase that best completes the following sentence.the relationship between the task environment and the general environment is best described as: a one-way system: changes in the task environment affect the general environment, but changes in the general environment do not affect the task environment.an open system: changes in the task environment affect the general environment, and changes in the general environment affect the task environment.a one-way system: changes in the general environment affect the task environment, but changes in the task environment do not affect the general environment.a closed system: changes in the general environment do not affect the task environment, and changes in the task environment do not affect the general environment.©bloomberg via getty imagesmanagement in the newsin april 2010, the explosion of british petroleum’s (bp) deepwater horizon oil drilling rig and the accompanying oil spill dramatically changed the external environment in which all oil companies operate. the explosion released more oil than any other accidental spill in history and had a huge impact on the waters and surrounding communities of the gulf coast. the conditions that led to the spill, the attempts to stop the spill, and the clean-up and aftermath of the spill prompted debates in the u.s. senate, concern on wall street, and attention from companies all over the world.match each oil spill event with a specific dimension of the general environment.eventgeneral environment dimensionbp stock prices falling 25% during the first month after the oil spill oil seeping into pelican nesting grounds, which will place the brown pelican back on the endangered species list people moving from louisiana to oklahoma to avoid the effects of the spill