Graciella Is Making a Persuasive Complaint at Work

question 47

Multiple Choice

Graciella is making a persuasive complaint at work. Which of these sentences will be most effective in achieving her goal?

• A)If you can't be bothered with maintaining our equipment in good working order, how can I be confident that you care about your employees? I can't be bothered filing repeated repair requests either.
• B)I have put up with a broken fax in Workroom 223 for three weeks, and I am just fed up with this waste of my time. Repair the fax or else!
• C)Did you realize that Bill has still not fixed the fax in Workroom 223 despite the work request I completed two weeks ago? Make Bill fix it soon.
• D)For the past two weeks, fax machine No. 223- 51 has been unavailable to complete essential business for 25 of our employees due to incomplete service. Please ensure our equipment is repaired by Friday.

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Definitions:

Equivalent Units

A concept used in cost accounting to express the amount of work done on in-process products in terms of complete units of output.

FIFO Method

An inventory costing method where the earliest items added to inventory are the first to be recorded as sold, affecting financial statements during inflationary periods.

Work in Process Inventory

The inventory account that tracks the cost of materials, labor, and overhead for products that are in production but not yet complete.

Equivalent Cost

The combined costs of direct materials and conversion costs (labor and overhead) for partially completed goods, used in process costing environments.