Allocation Busters (AB) is a dispute mediation firm offering services to firms in disputes about cost allocations with government agencies. For March, AB worked 448 hours for Massive Airframes and 666 hours for Gigantic Drydocks. AB bills clients at the rate of $507 per hour; labor cost for its professional staff is $220 per hour. Overhead costs in March totaled $40,200. Overhead is applied to clients at $42 per labor-hour. In addition, AB had $199,900 in marketing and administrative costs. All transactions are on account. All services were billed. Transaction Description (a) Record Labor cost (b) Record Applied Service Overhead (c) Record Cost of services billed (d) Record Actual Service Overhead

David burdick is the ceo of acme bubblegum, a successful public company. as one of the cofounders of the company, burdick has enjoyed speaking and writing about the success of acme bubblegum for several years. typically, he speaks at conferences or directly to the press, but recently, he has been blogging about his firm anonymously. specifically, he defended a recent advertising campaign that was unpopular among consumers and pointedly attacked one of acme bubblegum’s competitors. burdick deeply enjoys his anonymous blogging and believes that none of his readers actually know that he works for acme bubblegum.should burdick be allowed to praise his company’s performance anonymously online? should he be allowed to attack his competitors without disclosing his relationship with the company? how would you feel if the ceo of a company at which you shopped was secretly writing criticisms of his or her competition? how would you feel if you knew a writer for your favorite blog was actually closely involved in a company that the blog discussed? 1. define the ethical issue? 2. who are the primary stakeholders? 3. what are the possible alternatives? 4. how could you evaluate the ethical implications of the alternative actions (use appropriate decision rules)? 5. what action would you recommend and why?