If There Is Some Bad News About Your Organization, and Your

question 66

Multiple Choice

If there is some bad news about your organization, and your readers have already heard some of this bad news, you should

• A) use the indirect organizational plan.
• B) use emotional language to demonstrate empathy.
• C) confirm the news early and offer more information.
• D) use a longer buffer paragraph to cushion the effect.
• E) subordinate subtle goodwill language.

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Definitions:

Interest Earned

The amount of money gained as profit from an investment over a certain period of time.

Account

A record summarizing all the transactions pertaining to a single item in the financial statements.

Days

The basic unit of time, equal to 24 hours, used to measure duration from one midnight to the next.

Interest Earned

The amount of money made on an investment over a certain period of time due to interest.