You Have Been Hired by University Bike Shop as the Controller.The

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You have been hired by University Bike Shop as the controller.The CEO has been using a traditional GAAP income statement for internal decision making.However, the CEO has just completed an MBA program where she covered the contribution format income statement.She has asked you to explain the contribution format income statement to the other managers of the company with emphasis on the differences between the two income statements and how the contribution format income statement can help all the managers.

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Definitions:

Quantitative Data

Information that can be measured and written down with numbers, often used in statistical analysis to quantify behaviors, attitudes, and other defined variables.

Measures of Dispersion

Mathematical computations that represent the diversity or range within a collection of numerical values.

Range

The difference between the maximum value and minimum value in a data set.

Central Tendency

Statistics referring to the middle or typical value within a dataset, represented by measures such as mean, median, and mode.