Security Tax prepares individual tax returns and has finally agreed (much to the dismay of the senior partners) to utilize the IRS system that enables the returns to be transmitted electronically rather than through the mail. Almost every other firm in the United States is utilizing the system, and it has proven to be reliable. Security agreed to use the new technology only after a number of key clients threatened to take their accounts elsewhere unless they could file their returns electronically. Security should be classified as
A) An innovator.
B) An early adopter.
C) Part of the early majority.
D) Part of the late majority.
E) A laggard.

Question

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The last group to adopt new technology are laggards. Often isolated and highly conservative in their views, laggards are extremely suspicious of innovation and change.

Security Tax Prepares Individual Tax Returns and Has Finally Agreed