CT14.8 René Kelly, president of RL Industries, wishes to issue a press release to bolster her company's image and maybe even its stock price, which has been gradually falling. As controller, you have been asked to provide a list of 20 financial ratios and other operating statistics for RL Industries' first-quarter financials and operations.Two days after you provide the data requested, Erin Lourdes, the public relations director of RL, asks you to prove the accuracy of the financial and operating data contained in the press release written by the president and edited by Erin. In the news release, the president highlights the sales increase of 25% over last year's first quarter and the positive change in the current ratio from 1.5:1 last year to 3:1 this year. She also emphasizes that production was up 50% over the prior year's first quarter.You note that the release contains only positive or improved ratios and none of the negative or deteriorated ratios. For instance, no mention is made that the debt to assets ratio has increased from 35% to 55%, that inventories are up 89%, and that although the current ratio improved, the accounts receivable turnover fell from 12 to 9. Nor is there any mention that the reported profit for the quarter would have been a loss had not the estimated lives of RL plant and machinery been increased by 30%. Erin emphasized, “The Pres wants this release by early this afternoon.”Discussion Topic 1: EthicsRead Ethics Case CT14.8 and address the following:Who are the stakeholders in this situation?Is there anything unethical in the president’s actions?Should you as controller remain silent? Does Erin have any responsibility?add reference

In this milestone you will design a data warehouse star schema using the Northwind OLTP database design. You are expected to follow the four-step process discussed in the textbook: Identify the business process: Which business process in the Northwind database design will you use to develop the dimensional model? Also, develop a set of business questions that should be answered via queries against the data warehouse. Identify the grain of the fact table: determine how granular a row in the fact table must be. Identify the dimension tables, their variables, and attributes. Identify the fact table, its variables, and attributes. Deliverables for this milestone is a paper: Describing the business process and business questions Describing the grain of the fact table and why Listing the dimension tables, their variables and attributes Describing the fact table, its variables and attributes Containing a diagram of the dimensions and fact tables in your dimensional model, the variables for each table, and the relationships between fact and dimension tables including cardinality