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INTRODUCTION TO DAVID SHORTER’S DILEMMA
In this case, David Shorter is the Practice Director of the New Enterprise Group, an accounting firm which focuses on servicing small companies with annual revenues between $5 million and $100 million. The New Enterprise Group is set up in a hierarchical format in which partners, who report to David Shorter, have managers, junior level, and senior level staff accountants which they manage. ... David, who feels Bob’s interests should lie in auditing for companies based out of Hong Kong, met with Bob shortly after he became chartered to discuss Bob’s interests for assigning work tasks. Although Bob showed an interest in focusing on a career path involving tax, David assigned him to attracting Hong Kong based businesses and this would strengthen Bob’s auditing skills. ...
ANALYSIS
I believe there were a few problems that were present throughout this case. ... Also, David ignored Bob’s wishes by assigning him to the task of attracting business from Hong Kong, which involved mostly auditing work. This decision was obviously made because Bob is of Oriental descent and can communicate and relate better with people from his native country, however, David has recognize everyone’s wishes by assigning appointing the accountants to tasks in which they are interested. ... He had met with David four times in six months to express his interest in tax, he has expressed his unhappiness to Jane, his manager, and he was reluctant in taking the Softdisk audit, all of which are signs of his unhappiness. The problem lies in David Shorter making the decision to go against Bob’s wishes and assign him to the auditing discipline and, being an ex-patriot, Bob may have cultural issues with David and Mike McLeod’s actions.
Approximate Word count = 1405
Approximate Pages = 5.6
(250 words per page double spaced)
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