Management Functions

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Management Functions

• Strategic planning
• Dissemination of strategy
• Tactical decision analysis
• Management control

Information processing activities support the
above management functions
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Exercise 1-18

• Identity the main role the mgt. Acct. is playing
  in each of the following
• Interpreting differences between actual results
  and budgeted amounts on a shipping managers
  performance report at a Deawoo distribution center

CONTROL
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Exercise 1-18

• Preparing a report showing the benefits of
  leasing motor vehicles rather than owning them

TACTICAL DECISION ANALYSIS
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Exercise 1-18

• Preparing journal entries for depreciation on the
  personnel managers office equipment at Citibank

TRANSACTION PROCESSING
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Exercise 1-18

• Preparing a customers monthly statement for a
  Sears store

TRANSACTION PROCESSING
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Exercise 1-18

• Processing the weekly payroll for the Harvard
  University Maintenance Department

TRANSACTION PROCESSING
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Exercise 1-18

• Explaining the product design managers
  performance report at a Chrysler division

CONTROL
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Exercise 1-18

• Analyzing the costs of different ways to blend
  materials in the foundry of a General Electric
  plant

TACTICAL DECISION ANALYSIS
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Exercise 1-18

• Tallying sales, by branches, for the Sales Vice
  President of Unilever

TRANSACTION PROCESSING
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Exercise 1-18

• Analyzing, for the President of Microsoft, the
  impact of a contemplated new product on income.

TACTICAL DECISION ANALYSIS
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Exercise 1-18

• Interpreting why an IBM sales district did not
  meet its quota

CONTROL