Managerial Accounting: Tools for Business Decision Making
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Author: Jerry J. Weygandt, Paul D. Kimmel, Donald E. Kieso
Publisher: WILEY
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Chapter 10, Problem 10.2BYP
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To determine
Responsibility Report:
The report which records the activity assigned to each department units is called as responsibility report. It includes budgeted, actual and difference values of costs, revenues and resources that are assigned and controlled by a responsibility manager.
To determine: (a) the items which should be included in responsibility report.
(b)
To determine
(b) the results which should be called to the attention of each manager.
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Managerial Accounting: Tools for Business Decision Making
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