g As a department supervisor, you have long been a believer in continuing education and training for your employees. You and two or three of your senior employees have served as instructors. At the beginning of the annual budgeting process, you learn that the next budget proposal will have to reflect austerity. Heading the list of frills (to use the VP of Finance's own words) is education. Obviously, proposals for education will be closely scrutinized. Outline the approach you would propose in an effort to retain as much of your education allocation as possible. How would you react if you were left with no allocation for external education, travel for education, or educational materials?

You decided to charge $100 for your new computer game, but people are not buying it. what could you do to encourage people to buy your game?

Kelso electric is debating between a leveraged and an unleveraged capital structure. the all equity capital structure would consist of 40,000 shares of stock. the debt and equity option would consist of 25,000 shares of stock plus $280,000 of debt with an interest rate of 7 percent. what is the break-even level of earnings before interest and taxes between these two options?

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?