Using the annual report presented for Bell Division, evaluate the division and its management in terms of: (i) The accounting techniques employed in the measurement of division activities (ii) The manner of presentation (iii)The effectiveness with which it discloses difference and similarities between years
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Using the annual report presented for Bell Division, evaluate the division and its management in terms of:
(i) The accounting techniques employed in the measurement of division activities
(ii) The manner of presentation
(iii)The effectiveness with which it discloses difference and similarities between years
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(c) Make at least three (3) specific recommendations to the management of Dee Corporation that would improveits accounting and financial reporting system.
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- Speed Racer in Victoria makes bicycles for people of all ages. The frames division makes and paints the frames and supplies them to the assembly division where the bicycles are assembled. Speed Racer is a successful and profitable corporation that attributes much of its success to its decentralized operating style. Each division manager is compensated on the basis of division operating income. The assembly division currently acquires all its frames from the frames division. The assembly division manager could purchase similar frames in the market for $480. The frames division is currently operating at 80% of its capacity of 4,000 frames (units) and has the following details: Voltage Regulator Direct materials ($150 per unit x 320 units) $480,000 Direct manufacturing labour ($60 per unit x 3,200 units) 192,000 Variable manufacturing overhead costs ($30 per unit × 3,200 units) 96,000 Fixed manufacturing overhead costs $624,000 All the frames division’s…Speed Racer in Victoria makes bicycles for people of all ages. The frames division makes and paints the frames and supplies them to the assembly division where the bicycles are assembled. Speed Racer is a successful and profitable corporation that attributes much of its success to its decentralized operating style. Each division manager is compensated on the basis of division operating income. The assembly division currently acquires all its frames from the frames division. The assembly division manager could purchase similar frames in the market for $480. The frames division is currently operating at 80% of its capacity of 4,000 frames (units) and has the following details: Voltage Regulator Direct materials ($150 per unit x 320 units) $480,000 Direct manufacturing labour ($60 per unit x 3,200 units) 192,000 Variable manufacturing overhead costs ($30 per unit × 3,200 units) 96,000 Fixed manufacturing overhead costs $624,000 All the frames…A manufacturing company, Mani Co, has two divisions: Division EX and Division YX. Both divisions make a single standardised product. Division EX makes component TEX, which is supplied to both Division YX and external customers. Division YX makes product YAS using one unit of component TEX and other materials. It then sells the completed product YAS to external customers. To date, Division YX has always bought component TEX from Division EX. The following information is available: Division EX Division YX $ $ Selling price 40 96 Direct materials: Component TEX (40) Direct materials (12) (17) Direct labour (6) (9) Variable overheads (2) (3) Selling and distribution costs (4) (1) Contribution per unit before fixed costs 16 26 Annual fixed costs $500,000 $200,000 Annual external demand (units) 160,000 120,000 Capacity of plant 300,000 130,000 Division EX charges the same price for…