Sort the responsibilities
Exercise and reference answers
- Items
- Category
- Cost
- Item
- Costs only
- Category
- Cost
- Item
- Spending alone
- Category
- Revenue
- Item
- Revenues only
- Category
- Revenue
- Item
- Sales alone
- Category
- Profit
- Item
- Revenue and cost
- Category
- Profit
- Item
- A store branch
- Category
- Investment
- Item
- Profit, capital
- Categories
- Cost
- Revenue
- Profit
- Investment
- Instructions
- Send each responsibility down the chute of the centre it defines.
Explanation
_Source: OpenStax Principles of Accounting Volume 2, Managerial Accounting (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0), Ch 9 'Responsibility Accounting and Decentralization', sections 9.1-9.4_