9. From the lists you made in Questions 7 and 8, select a report category and appropriate format for each of the following situations.

a. Your supervisor asks you to review the Web site of one of your competitors and to write a report that condenses the important content.

b. You want to tell management about an idea you have for consolidating two departments in order to eliminate redundancy and lower expenses.

c. You are in charge of developing a new procedure for processing payroll. Your boss wants to know what you have done thus far.

d. You are asked to record the proceedings of a meeting of your college’s student association.

e. As Accounting Department manager, you have been asked to describe for all employees your procedure for processing expense claims.

f. As a security officer, you are writing a report of an office break-in.
g. At a Web-based retail company, your supervisor asks you to investigate ways to reduce the number of steps that customers must go through to place an online order. She wants your report to examine the problem and offer solutions.