The two possible courses of protocol I can follow are as follows:
Assume that you are a cashier and your manager requires that you immediately enter each sale...
ETHICS CHALLENGE C1 A BTN 2-1 Assume that you are a cashier and your manager requires that you immediately enter each sale when it occurs. Recently, lunch hour traffic has increased and the assistant manager asks you to avoid delays by taking customers' cash and making change without entering sales. The assistant manager says she will add up cash and enter sales after lunch. She says that, in this way, customers will be happy and the register record will always...
If you were a cashier and your job requires that you immediately enter each sale when it occurs. Recently, lunch hour traffic has increased and the assistant manager asks you to avoid delays by taking customers’ cash and making change without entering sales. The assistant manager says she will add up cash and enter sales after lunch. She says that, in this way, customers will be happy and the register record will always match the cash amount when the manager...
Your manager requires that you, as cashier, immediately enter each sale. Recently, lunch hour traffic has increased and the assistant manager asks you to avoid delays by taking customers' cash and making change without entering sales. The assistant manager says she will add up cash and enter sales after lunch. She says that, in this way, the register will always match the cash amount when the manager arrives at three o'clock. The advantages to the process proposed by the assistant...
ETHICS CHALLENGE EC 2-1 You are a cashier at a retail convenience store. When you were hired, the owner explained to you the policy of immediately ringing up each sale. Recently, lunch hour traffic has increased dramatically and the manager asks you to take customers' cash and make change without ringing up sales to avoid delays. The manager says she will add up cash and ring up sales equal to the cash amount after lunch. She says that in this...
Analysing the Accounting Information System of HARDA Fashion. HARDA Fashion sells ready-to-wear fashion clothes to teenagers. The company has a 20-store chain concentrated in the north-eastern part of the United States of America. Each store has the experienced full-time staff consist of a manager and an assistant manager. The full-time staff is paid a fixed salary. The full-time staff is assisted with a cashier and a sales assistant who have comparatively less experience. The cashier and sales assistant are paid...
After working six years as an assistant health services manager at Johnson Hospital, Trudy Leeson was promoted to Health Services Administrator of the Center. Trudy was very excited as she recently earned her degree in Health Service Management making her eligible to apply for the position. Trudy can now take the lead and put to use all of her years of study. Following a general meeting at which her promotion was announced, Trudy found herself surrounded by three longtime coworkers...
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Sunshine Enterprises Case Study “I think the waiter wrote in an extra $25 tip on my Sunshine Café bill after I received and signed my credit card receipt,” Mr. Mark Otter said to the restaurant manager, Brad Gladiolus. “Mr. Otter, mail me a copy of the restaurant receipt and I’ll investigate,” responded Mr. Gladiolus. “I don’t have the receipt—I lost it—but I have my monthly credit card statement,” replied Mr. Otter. Mr. Gladiolus hesitated, then said, “Mr. Otter, I don’t...