Plan the organization of messages. For the situations , imagine what the audience reaction might be and whether a direct or an indirect organizational plan would be better. Explain your answers.
Identify general-purpose statements and communication objectives for several situations.
Read the following situations and write a general-purpose statement and a specific communication objective—the results you want—for each.
As the manager of a small retail clothing store, you write an email to let employees know they’re getting a $1 per hour wage increase.
As the assistant manager of a movie theater, you write an email to tell a customer you found the earring she lost the night before.
As a newly hired advertising director, you write an email to the president of the company requesting a 10% increase in your advertising budget.
As a CEO, you write a blog post on your investor website about your company’s falling stock price.
As a marketing manager, you write a letter to customers announcing a new product that will be available in your store starting next month.
As a student, you write a letter to your college newspaper editor about the increase in tuition costs.
As a warehouse manager, you write an email to an employee about the facility being left unlocked last night.

One question from a survey was "how many credit cards do you currently have? " the results of the survey are provided. complete parts (a) through (g) below. click the icon to view the survey results. (a) determine the mean number of credit cards based on the raw data. the mean is 3.113.11 credit cards. (type an integer or a decimal. do not round.) (b) determine the standard deviation number of credit cards based on the raw data. the standard deviation is 1.9111.911 credit cards. (round to three decimal places as needed.) (c) determine a probability distribution for the random variable, x, the number of credit cards issued to an individual. x (# of cards) p(x) x (# of cards) p(x) 1 0.280.28 6 nothing 2 nothing 7 nothing 3 nothing 8 nothing 4 nothing 9 nothing 5 nothing 10 nothing (type integers or decimals. do not round.)

Fred smithers, a recent college graduate decided to open his own portable juice bar, smithers smoothies, to wheel around newport beach. you, a trusted friend of fred, are a business major that has also recently graduated and agreed to handle the books for a while to get some practical experience and have a favor that you can ask of fred in the future. given the following five transactions concerning the new venture, prepare the necessary journal entries for the transactions, post the journal entries to appropriate t accounts and prepare a trial balance as of the end of the month in order to answer to the necessary may 2: fred invests $12,000 of his own money to start the new company. this money was obtained from a part-time job working at a legal firm while he was in school. may 3: fred spent $5,100 cash to purchase a refrigerated trailer that he can pull behind his car and set up at the beach. under your advice, fred agrees to place the new asset under an account called "equipment." may 6: fred bought $640 of supplies on account from the flav-o-rite confectioners company. because they will last longer than a single accounting period fred agrees to record them as, "supplies" as per your suggestion. may 13: fred sat on the beach for six hours without a single sale and was feeling very down. right before he left, however, a plumber escorting his family reunion along the beach stopped by his stand and bought $800 worth of smoothies for the entire family. under your advice, fred agrees to call this cash revenue, "sales." may 15: excited about his new venture, fred withdraws $350 from the company to take his girlfriend out to dinner. what would be the balance in the cash account at the end of the period following the posting of all the transactions?

Taking commercial paper means the holder acts honestly