For each of the following activities, identify the major function the accountant is performing - scorekeeping, attention directing or problem solving.
a. Interpreting differences between actual results and budgeted amounts on a shipping manager's performance report at a Lada distribution centre.
b. Preparing a report showing the benefits of leasing motor vehicles versus owning them.
c. Preparing adjusting journal entries for depreciation on the personnel manager's office equipment at Crédit Suisse.
d. Preparing a customer's monthly statement for an Argos store.
e. Processing the weekly payroll for the University College Dublin maintenance department.
f. Explaining the product-design manager's performance report at an Audi division.
g. Analysing the costs of several different ways to blend materials in the foundry of a Krupp plant.
h. Tallying sales, by branches, for the sales vice-president of Unilever.
i. Analysing, for a senior manager of British Telecom, the impact of a contemplated new product on net income.
j. Interpreting why a Moulinex sales district did not meet its sales quota.