Writing application 4.2: employee holiday options in the past your company offered all employees 11 holidays, starting with new year’s day in january and proceeding through christmas day the following december. other companies offer similar holiday schedules. in addition, your company has given all employees one floating holiday. that day was determined by a companywide vote. as a result, all employees had the same day off. now, management is considering a new plan that involves a floating holiday that each employee may choose. selections, however, would be subject to staffing needs within individual departments. if two people wanted the same day, the employee with the most seniority would have the day off. as a member of the human resources staff, write an e-mail to employees. this message should provide information as well as ask employees to choose between continuing the current companywide uniform floating holiday and instituting a new plan for an individual floating holiday. be sure to establish an end date.

Which one of the following is never part of recording the requisition and issuance of raw materials in a job order cost system? debit finished goods inventory debit manufacturing overhead credit raw materials inventory debit work in process

Suppose you have just been hired as the chief diversity officer of a large company. previous mentoring programs at this company have not been successful. after inquiring about previous efforts, you discover that most mentor pairs met just a few times, but very few lasting or meaningful mentoring relationships were created. there were also a significant number of employees that did not even attempt to seek out a mentor relationship. which of the following may be a reason why prior mentoring programs at your company failed? check all that apply.a) minorities and women are much less likely to develop mentoring relationships than white malesb) mentoring is not an effective way for organizations to develop female and minority employeesc) due to specific laws governing appropriate workplace behavior, senior-level male executives were reluctant to cultivate mentoring relationships with female employees, fearing negative repercussionsd) fear of creating a future competitor within the company, senior-level female executives were hesitant to mentor other female employees

Ryan terlecki organized a new internet company, capuniverse, inc. the company specializes in baseball-type caps with logos printed on them. ryan, who is never without a cap, believes that his target market is college and high school students. you have been hired to record the transactions occurring in the first two weeks of operations. issued 2,900 shares of $0.01 par value common stock to investors for cash at $29 per share. borrowed $68,000 from the bank to provide additional funding to begin operations; the note is due in two years. paid $1,000 for the current month's rent of a warehouse and another $1,000 for next month's rent. paid $1,440 for a one-year fire insurance policy on the warehouse (recorded as a prepaid expense). purchased furniture and fixtures for the warehouse for $16,000, paying $3,200 cash and the rest on account. the amount is due within 30 days. purchased for $2,800 cash the university of pennsylvania, notre dame, the university of texas at austin, and michigan state university baseball caps as inventory to sell online. placed advertisements on google for a total of $340 cash. sold caps totaling $1,900, half of which was charged on account. the cost of the caps sold was $1,100. (hint: make two entries.) made full payment for the furniture and fixtures purchased on account in (e). received $280 from a customer on account.