The accounting firm of Barnes, Fernandez, and Chou has just hired six new junior accountants, who are to be placed into six specialty areas within the firm: auditing, corporate tax, personal tax,...

The accounting firm of Barnes, Fernandez, and Chou has just hired six new junior accountants, who are to be placed into six specialty areas within the firm: auditing, corporate tax, personal tax, financial analysis, information systems, and general accounting. Each applicant has been given an overall skills test in the specialty areas; the results are presented in the table for problem 15.

 a. If test scores are judged to be a measure of potential success, which junior accountant should be assigned to which specialty?

 b. In addition to the primary specialty area, each new junior accountant will be trained in a second specialty so that the company has two junior accountants with training in each specialty area. Eliminating the original assignments found in part a, what assignments now give the maximal potential for the second specialty?