Managerial Accounting: Creating Value in a Dynamic Business Environment
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ISBN: 9781259569562
Author: Ronald W Hilton Proffesor Prof, David Platt
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Chapter 9, Problem 27E
Tanya Williams is the new
The new accounts manager is paid a salary plus a bonus of $15 for every new account she generates above the budgeted amount. Thus, if the annual budget calls for 500 new accounts, and 540 new accounts are obtained, Williams’s bonus will be $600 (40 × $15).
Williams believes the economy of the county will continue to grow at the same rate in 20x2 as it has in recent years. She has decided to submit a budgetary projection of 700 new accounts for 20x2.
Required: Your consulting firm has been hired by the bank president to make recommendations for improving its operations. Write a memorandum to the president defining and explaining the negative consequences of budgetary slack. Also discuss the bank’s bonus system for the new accounts manager and how the bonus program tends to encourage budgetary slack.
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