Eduardo continued to prepare his paperwork for that evening. The annual inventory was scheduled to occur shortly before the Christmas holiday season, requiring all of the employees to manually count each item in the store. This required all of the employees to stay late well into the evening. Sometimes employees did not leave the store until six o"clock in the morning because it took that long to count ever item. To avoid this possibility for the upcoming inventory, Eduardo came up with a plan to heavily discount a lot of the merchandise so that it would be sold in advance of the annual inventory. That way the employees, including Eduardo, could leave earlier. He spent the entire evening drafting the proposal and estimating the amount of profit that could be made as a result of various pro
