Which of the Following Statements Is True of Performance Reporting

question 103

Multiple Choice

Which of the following statements is true of performance reporting?

• A) Responsibility reports should focus on the person responsible for unfavorable variances, rather than information.
• B) Managers should not be held accountable for uncontrollable variances.
• C) Only unfavorable variances should be explained in the reports.
• D) Every variance, regardless of magnitude, must be investigated by the managers.

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Definitions:

Complements

Goods or services that are used together, where the increase in consumption of one leads to an increase in consumption of the other.

Substitutes

Goods or services that can be used in place of each other, where an increase in the price of one leads to an increase in the demand for the other.

Elasticity Coefficient

Refers to a numerical measurement of how responsive an economic variable is to a change in another variable.

Supply Elastic

Relates to how much the quantity supplied of a good changes in response to changes in its price.