Question detail
CloudCart serves local families while changing supplier; the case evidence includes gross profit margin of ?6,184, sales of 729 units, and a 25% change in costs or demand. Which option best applies Identify where a business may face a trade-off between ethics and profit?
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practice
Style
Topic
Ethical and environmental considerations
Question
- A. Use ethics to judge unit contribution, managers impact, and the business objective in Ethical considerations.
- B. Give only a definition of Ethical and environmental considerations without using the case evidence.
- C. Treat break-even and profit as identical and ignore the effect on managers.
- D. Choose the largest sales figure without checking costs, finance, or context.
Answer
The correct option is: Use ethics to judge unit contribution, managers impact, and the business objective in Ethical considerations.
Explanation
Choose this response because Use ethics to judge unit contribution, managers impact, and the business objective in Ethical considerations. The case evidence gives ?7,684, 729 units, and 25%, so the answer must explain the commercial effect rather than repeat a definition. The distractors are weaker because they confuse break-even and profit, miss the managers, or ignore the business objective.
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