The following practices deal with ethical issues regarding compensation and rewards. Assume the role of sales manager and evaluate/discuss the ethicality of the following practices:

c) Salespeople at manufacturer A often spend large amounts of money on entertaining clients and prospective clients. It is not unusual for a salesperson at A to invite a client and his or her spouse to an expensive ($500) dinner. The client's company has a policy against accepting gifts, but, as the salesperson at A likes to say, "everybody's got to eat . . ."