Sam cresco, president of cresco company, has instructed sharon gross, the head of the accounting department for cresco company, to report the company’s land in the company’s accounting reports at its fair value of $170,000 instead of its cost of $100,000. cresco says, “showing the land at $170,000 will make our company look like a better investment when we try to attract new investors next month.” explain the ethical situation involved for sharon gross, identifying the stakeholders and the alternatives.

Ajustification for job training programs is that they improve worker productivity. suppose that you are asked to evaluate whether more job training makes workers more productive. however, rather than having data on individual workers, you have access to data on manufacturing firms in ohio. in particu- lar, for each firm, you have information on hours of job training per worker (training) and number of nondefective items produced per worker hour (output). (i) carefully state the ceteris paribus thought experiment underlying this policy question. (ii) does it seem likely that a firm’s decision to train its workers will be independent of worker characteristics? what are some of those measurable and unmeasurable worker characteristics? (iii) name a factor other than worker characteristics that can affect worker productivity. (iv) if you find a positive correlation between output and training, would you have convincingly established that job training makes workers more productive? explain.

During which of the following phases of the business cycle does the real gdp fall? a. trough b. expansion c. contraction d. peak

Statistical process control charts: a. indicate to the operator the true quality of material leaving the process. b. display upper and lower limits for process variables or attributes and signal when a process is no longer in control. c. indicate to the process operator the average outgoing quality of each lot. d. display the measurements on every item being produced. e. are a graphic way of classifying problems by their level of importance, often referred to as the 80-20 rule.