Question:
Score keeping attention directing and problems of living.
For each of the following activities, identify the major function the accountant is perform- ing - scorekeeping, attention directing or problem solving.
a Interpreting differences between actual results and budgeted amounts on a shipping manager's performance report at a Lada distribution centre.
b Preparing a report showing the benefits of leasing motor vehicles versus owning them.
c Preparing adjusting journal entries for depreciation on the personnel manager's office equipment at Crédit Suisse.
d Preparing a customer's monthly statement for an Argos store.
e Processing the weekly payroll for the University College Dublin maintenance depart- ment.
f Explaining the product-design manager's performance report at an Audi division.
g Analysing the costs of several different ways to blend materials in the foundry of a Krupp plant.
h Tallying sales, by branches, for the sales vice-president of Unilever.
i Analysing, for a senior manager of British Telecom, the impact of a contemplated new product on net income.
j Interpreting why a Moulinex sales district did not meet its sales quota.