A promising new customer at a FINRA member firm has complained verbally to a registered representative that he lost $500 on the first stock recommended by that representative. Wanting to keep the customer, the representative offers to make this up to the customer by giving the customer, the customer's spouse, and each of the customer's 3 children a gift of $100. Which statement is TRUE?

A. This action is a violation of FINRA rules
B. This action is acceptable because it does not exceed the $100 per person gift limit
C. This action is acceptable only if the member firm approves in advance
D. This action is acceptable only if the payment is made by the member firm and not the representative

Consider the scenario below and let us know if you believe lauren smith's actions to be ethical. let us know why or why not. lauren smith is the controller for sports central, a chain of sporting goods stores. she has been asked to recommend a site for a new store. lauren has an uncle who owns a shopping plaza in the area of town where the new store is to be located, so she decides to contact her uncle about leasing space in his plaza. lauren also contacted several other shopping plazas and malls, but her uncle’s store turned out to be the most economical place to lease. therefore, lauren recommended locating the new store in her uncle’s shopping plaza. in making her recommendation to management, she did not disclose that her uncle owns the shopping plaza. if management decided to go with lauren's uncle's plaza, what additional information would be needed in the financial statements?