When good cost accounting procedures are _____ , the company may find out that they have been producing a
  non-profitable product or service.
  A) contracted
  B) discarded
  C) implemented
  D) suggested

  The customer complained that the assistant he spoke to had been most _____ .
   A) helpless
   B) incapable
   C) unhelpful
   D) impotent

  This supermarket is trying to _____ young shoppers by offering fashionable clothes.
  A) target
  B) persuade
  C) encourage
  D) trap

  Going on a spending _____ with your credit card and no concern about how you pay back the money you
  borrow, is a growing habit these days.
  A) burst
  B) spree
  C) flight
  D) day

  In the tax office there will be a _____ that holds all the documents and papers connected with you.
  A) file
  B) box
  C) book
  D) container

  Despite all the alterations that are taking place in the department store, the management wanted to explain it
  was business as _____
  A) common
  B) practical
  C) frequent
  D) usual

  Depreciation expenses the wear and _____ on assets like machinery, equipment and furnishings.
  A) age
  B) change
  C) repair
  D) tear

  A comprehensive standard _____ comparability across all types of financial institutions.
  A) correlates
  B) facilitates
  C) initiates
  D) legislates

  Interest _____ are at their lowest level since the 1950's.
  A) figures
  B) rates
  C) numbers
  D) standards

  From the end of May until August I have been away on business and was surprised that _____ that period
  A) while
  B) attending
  C) from
  D) during