A Company Has an "Internal Whistleblower of the Year" Award

question 13

Multiple Choice

A company has an "Internal Whistleblower of the Year" award and intends to announce the employee who won the accompanying $25,000 cash prize at the company's annual employee awards banquet.The company:

• A) May not do so without getting the employee's permission
• B) May not do so, even if it obtains the employee's permission
• C) May do so to encourage others to employees to speak out
• D) May do so based on the "honorary award" exception in the Sarbanes-Oxley Act

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Definitions:

Stimulate

To encourage something to grow, develop, or become active.

Young-Helmholtz Trichromatic Model

A theory of color vision proposing that the human eye has three types of receptors with different sensitivities to different light wavelengths.

Primary Color

Fundamental colors (typically red, yellow, and blue) that cannot be created by mixing other colors and from which other colors can be derived.

Trichromatic Theory

A theory of color vision that suggests the human eye has three types of receptors sensitive to different wavelengths of light, corresponding to red, green, and blue colors.