On january 1, 2018, poplar fabricators corporation agreed to grant its employees two weeks’ vacation each year, with the stipulation that vacations earned each year can be taken the following year. for the year ended december 31, 2018, poplar fabricators’ employees each earned an average of $900 per week. seven hundred vacation weeks earned in 2018 were not taken during 2018. required: 1. prepare the appropriate adjusting entry for vacations earned but not taken in 2018. 2. suppose that, by the time vacations actually are taken in 2019, wage rates for employees have risen by an average of 5 percent from their 2018 level. also, assume wages earned in 2019 (including vacations earned and taken in 2019) were $31 million. prepare a journal entry that summarizes 2019 wages and the payment for 2018 vacations taken in 2019.

When paul o’neill joined alcoa as ceo, he set a , that there would be zero workplace accidents. a lot of people in the organization thought this was impossible given how dangerous some aluminum-manufacturing jobs are, but alcoa’s safety record improved tremendously. as the board of governors of the american red cross considers planning, one option is to make strategic plans and then direct managers to align tactical and operational plans accordingly. another option is to have planning specialists managers across the organization make their own plans. why might this organization’s executives opt for the latter approach? check all that apply. (a) the environment is a dynamic one, and department and frontline managers can come up with more responsive plans than can central leadership. (b)resources will be better coordinated across the organization in support of the overall strategy.(c) senior leadership will have more control over the organization’s direction. (d)when managers come up with their own plans, they are likely to be more committed to following through on them.