Consider the Request Below

question 48

Multiple Choice

Consider the request below:

Our department is short-staffed right now, as a number of employees were selected to participate in the current training program. This has coincided with a flood of paperwork that we must complete by the end of the week to fulfill the new compliance requirements. Without some divine intervention, our team won't be able to make this month's regularly scheduled meeting.

-This request ________.

• A)uses indirect organization
• B)is organized directly
• C)uses organizational misdirection
• D)places details after the statement of request
• E)gets to the point quickly and lets the audience know why they are reading the message

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Definitions:

Required Rate Of Return

The minimum annual percentage return an investor expects to achieve from an investment.

Discounted Payback

A capital budgeting method that calculates the length of time it takes to break even from an investment based on its discounted cash flows.

Profitability Index

A financial tool that calculates the ratio of the present value of future cash flows generated by an investment to the investment’s initial cost, used to assess project attractiveness.

Profitability Index

A financial metric that measures the relative profitability of an investment by dividing the present value of future cash flows by the initial investment cost.