In Hersey and Blanchard's situational theory, job maturity refers to the Select one: a. length of time the employee has been employed with the organization. b. level of the follower's skills and technical knowledge relative to the task being performed. c. follower's relative levels of self-confidence and self-respect. d. age of the employee as compared to the median age of all company employees. e. amount of time a job has been defined within the organization.

Cindy recently played in a softball game in which she misplayed a ground ball for an error. later, in the same game, she made a great catch on a very difficult play. according to the self-serving bias, she would attribute her error to and her good catch to her

The sec has historically raised questions regarding the independence of firms that derive a significant portion of their total revenues from one audit client or group of clients because the sec staff believes this situation causes cpa firms to

Costco wholesale corporation operates membership warehouses selling food, appliances, consumer electronics, apparel and other household goods at 471 locations across the u.s. as well as in canada, mexico and puerto rico. as of its fiscal year-end 2005, costco had approximately 21.2 million members. selected fiscal-year information from the company's balance sheets follows. ($ millions). selected balance sheet data 2005 2004 merchandise inventories $4,015 $3,644 deferred membership income (liability) 501 454 (a) during fiscal 2005, costco collected $1,120 cash for membership fees. use the financial statement effectstemplate to record the cash collected for membership fees. (b) in 2005, costco recorded $46,347 million in merchandise costs (that is, cost of goods sold). record thistransaction in the financial statement effects template. (c) determine the value of merchandise that costco purchased during fiscal-year 2005. use the financial statementeffects template to record these merchandise purchases. assume all of costco's purchases are on credit.