After years of hard work, you have been promoted to your first management position with Cooper Siding and Roofing. You are the District eight sales representatives reporting to you. To improve your leadership skills, you review the four basic functions of management: plan, o motivate, and control. You know it is important to execute each of these skills well. After a few weeks, you review your to-do list. Which of the following activities represents the organize function of management? a. Send weekly updates to your sales reps about the district's progress towards achieving its annual revenue goal.
b. Align each sales representative with an internal partner at the corporate office to help process leads and sales paperwork.
c. Develop a marketing and sales plan for next year.
d. Measure performance of each sales representative and take corrective action when needed.

Jordan, inc. sells fireworks. the company’s marketing director developed the following cost of goods sold budget for april, may, june, and july. april may june july budgeted cost of goods sold $62,000 $72,000 $82,000 $88,000 jordan had a beginning inventory balance of $3,000 on april 1 and a beginning balance in accounts payable of $14,600. the company desires to maintain an ending inventory balance equal to 15 percent of the next period’s cost of goods sold. jordan makes all purchases on account. the company pays 65 percent of accounts payable in the month of purchase and the remaining 35 percent in the month following purchase. required prepare an inventory purchases budget for april, may, and june. determine the amount of ending inventory jordan will report on the end-of-quarter pro forma balance sheet. prepare a schedule of cash payments for inventory for april, may, and june. determine the balance in accounts payable jordan will report on the end-of-quarter pro forma balance sheet.

For each of the following users of financial accounting information and managerial accounting information, specify whether the user would primarily use financial accounting information or managerial accounting information or both: 1. sec examiner 2. bookkeeping department 3. division controller 4. external auditor (public accounting firm) 5. loan officer at the company's bank 6. state tax agency auditor 7. board of directors 8. manager of the service department 9. wall street analyst 10. internal auditor 11. potential investors 12, current stockholders 13. reporter from the wall street journal 14. regional division managers

How many months does the federal budget usually take to prepare