Barnes & Noble is a book retailing company. Most of its sales are made at its own

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Barnes & Noble is a book retailing company. Most of its sales are made at its own stores, which are located in shopping malls or in central business districts. A small but increasing percentage of sales is made via BarnesandNoble.com, whose major competitor is Amazon.com.

The following five reports were recently prepared by the management accounting group at Barnes & Noble:

1. Annual financial statements

2. Weekly report to vice president of operations for each Barnes & Noble store (includes revenues and operating costs)

3. Study for vice president of new business development of the expected revenues and costs of BarnesandNoble.com, selling music products (CDs, cassettes, etc.) as well as books

4. Weekly report to book publishers and trade magazines on the sales of the 10 top-selling fiction and nonfiction books at both its own stores and BarnesandNoble.com

5. Report to insurance company on losses Barnes & Noble suffered at three of its North Carolina stores due to a hurricane


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For each report, identify both a planning decision and a control decision used by a Barnes & Noble manager.

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Cost Accounting A Managerial Emphasis

ISBN: 978-0131495388

12th edition

Authors: Charles T. Horngren, Srikant M. Datar, George Foster

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