(a) Prepare a performance report for the manager of the Deluxe Division. (b) What is the best measure of the manager’s performance?  Why? (c) How would the responsibility report differ if the division was an investment center?

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The Deluxe Division, a profit center of Riley Manufacturing Company, reported the following data for the first quarter of 2016:
Sales                                                           $9,000,000
Variable costs                                                     6,300,000
Controllable direct fixed costs                      1,200,000
Noncontrollable direct fixed costs                 530,000
Indirect fixed costs                                                 300,000
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(a) Prepare a performance report for the manager of the Deluxe Division.
(b) What is the best measure of the manager’s performance?  Why?
(c) How would the responsibility report differ if the division was an investment center?

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