TABLE 8-15 a Sales and Marketing Management Magazine Conducted a Survey on Survey

question 78

Short Answer

TABLE 8-15
A sales and marketing management magazine conducted a survey on salespeople cheating on their expense reports and other unethical conduct. In the survey on 200 managers, managers have caught salespeople cheating on an expense report 58% of the time, working a second job on company time 50% of the time, listing a "strip bar" as a restaurant on an expense report 22% of the time, and giving a kickback to a customer 19% of the time.
-Referring to Table 8-15, construct a 95% confidence interval estimate of the population proportion of managers who have caught salespeople working a second job on company time.

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Definitions:

Sales On Account

Transactions where goods or services are sold with payment to be received at a later date, typically recorded as accounts receivable.

Cost Of Goods Sold

The total cost associated with making or acquiring any goods sold during a reporting period, including materials, labor, and overhead expenses.

Average Collection Period

The average number of days it takes for a company to collect payment from its credit sales.

Common Stock

A type of corporate equity ownership, representing a portion of the stake in a company.