Ben works at a top accounting firm in Salt Lake City and his responsibilities include developing reports for each salesperson, product, and part as well as departmental-wide sales reports by salesperson, product, and part. Ben's duties provide value-added to his company and would be categorized as occurring at the different information .

The former chairman of the federal reserve, alan greenspan, used the term "irrational exuberance" in 1996 to describe the high levels of optimism among stock market investors at the time. stock market indexes such as the s& p composite price index were at an all-time high. some commentators believed that the fed should intervene to slow the expansion of the economy. why would central banks want to clamp down when the economy is growing? a. to block the formation of unsustainable speculative asset bubbles. b. to curtail excessive profits in the banking system. c. to prevent inflationary forces from gathering momentum. d. all of the above. e. a and c only.