KHF CORPORATION
SEEDS OF DISTRESS
Jim Layton, controller for Kitty (Hawk Food), Inc. (KHF) was under considerable stress as he walked toward the chief executive's office. Marshall Horne, the CEO, was not known to take bad news well. In his hands, Jim held two letters from food suppliers that threatened to cancel KHF's trade credit accounts. KHF had developed difficulties in cash flow such that their payments on the accounts had been late, at best. The suppliers provided normal trade terms to KHF, with a 2% discount for early payment (within 10 days), and a 30 day limit. No purchase limits had been placed on the firm.
KHF had depended heavily on trade credit for the recent expansion of its service area into the Outer Banks of North
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"Alright, what's up?"
"I have some correspondence from some of our business contacts," said Jim. He was trying to avoid discussing the details in front of Tibbs, but Horne didn't stop the game. "It's rather pressing."
"Well spit it out!" said Horne, obviously getting more agitated. Jim hesitated. "Well?" nudged Horne.
Jim took a deep breath. "Our two biggest suppliers are threatening to cut us off" said
Jim. Horne looked up suddenly. Tibbs looked shocked.
"And HOW did you get us into that?" roared Horne, trying to save face. "Lets' see," he said, snatching the letters from Jim. "I'll be right back," he said, looking back at Tibbs.
Outside the office, Horne scowled at Jim. "What are you thinking, saying that in front of a customer?"
"I tried to avoid it - I asked you to give me a few minutes," replied Jim.
Horne read the letters. "Isn't it your job to keep these things from happening? What did they teach you at that business school anyway? If you want something done right, you have to do it yourself. I'll go see these idiots today and set things straight. Cut me two checks for the balances." Jim stood his ground. "Unfortunately, we haven't collected most of our customer accounts. We don't have enough in the account to cover even half of one of these" replied
Jim. Both of them knew that Horne was supposed to collect accounts due as he made the rounds of his customers.
Horne smacked the letters in frustration. "Get back to
The applicants are morally correct as long as their action promotes their long term interest. If their action produces or will produce for them a greater outcome of good, versus evil in the long hall than any other alternative, than that action is the right one to act on, and the individual should take that to be a moral act. An Assessment of Morality by Ethicsinbusiness.net
When Maalick originally went to Marta Ford he spoke to her about the questions regarding his religion his co-coworkers had been asking. Rather than disregard his concerns she should have been proactive in addressing the issue rather than waiting until it got worse. She could have held a meeting with everyone in the facility and reminded them of the company policy regarding harassment. According to Gomez-Mejia, L., Balkin, D., & Cardy, R. (2012) companies that are proactive toward issues are better prepared to deal with future problems. Had she done this the issue likely would not have escalated to the point that it became a hostile work environment for Maalick. To prevent the situation from happening in the future Marta Ford could provide additional training to all employees and require annual retraining so that all employees and management are aware of company policies.
1. Write a client outcome to help Mrs. Ross resolve the symptoms (i.e., defining characteristics). Refer to Section III (beginning on p. 119) of the Ackley and Ladwig text.
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"Stop what?" Jackson snickered as he once again kicked the back of my seat, "I don't understand what I'm doing wrong."
He would feel just as bad even if he turned Jim in. To keep jim was the most handy thing to do. 3. Why don't the slave hunters get Jim?
A shadow passed over his smug expression. He slid his hips from the desk and his flinty eyes hardened to thin slits. “You’re lying.”
As for Jim’s perspective , Jim doesn 't know who to trust since the person who has owned
“No,” Delta spoke up. "Anything you have to say, you can say in front of Zack.”
“You call that a conversation? First, you bitch me out, then you walk away?” Alec said, bringing me back to our yelling match.
"Relax Calvin." His eyes lowered as he dropped his alert state for one more nostalgic. "I bluffed you." His blank expression become something closer to a frown as he panned over to a study table not unlike their own on the other side of the room.
in that event, the clerk was supposed to tell me that the clerk related to new sales generated by the ceo and that all was under control. as a matter of fact, the customers in question haven 't placed any kind of orders with our company and no goods have been shipped to them. because we aren not company, our external auditor has not performed any kind of interim review of the interim financial statements."
“What the heck did you do that for?” Ben shouted looking at me like it was my fault.
* The cash shortage is closed to “loss from cash shortage” account if reasonable efforts fail to disclose the cause of the shortage