Managerial Accounting: Tools for Business Decision Making
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Chapter 10, Problem 10.11E
UrLink Company is a newly formed company specializing in high-speed Internet service for home and business. The owner, Lenny Kirkland, had divided the company into two segments: Home Internet Service and Business Internet Service. Each segment is run by its own supervisor, while basic selling and administrative services are shared by both segments.
Lenny has asked you to help him create a performance reporting system that will allow him to measure each segment's performance in terms of its profitability. To that end. the following information has been collected on the Home Internet Service segment for the first quarter of 2017.
| Budget | Actual | |
| Service revenue | $25,000 | $26,200 |
| Allocated portion or: Building |
11,000 | 11,000 |
| Advertising | 5,000 | 4,200 |
| Billing | 3,500 | 3,000 |
| Property taxes | 1,200 | 1,000 |
| Material and supplies | 1,600 | 1,200 |
| Supervisory salaries | 9,000 | 9,500 |
| Insurance | 4,000 | 3,900 |
| Wages | 3,000 | 3,250 |
| Gas and oil | 2,800 | 3,400 |
| Equipment depreciation | 1,500 | 1,300 |
Instructions
(a) Prepare a responsibility report for the first quarter of 2017 for the Home internet Service segment.
(b) - Write a memo to Lenny Kirkland discussing the principles that should be used when preparing performance reports.
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