Scorekeeping, attention directing, and problem solving. For each of the following,

identify the major function the accountant is performing — scorekeeping, attention directing, or problem solving.

1. Interpreting difference - between actual results and budgeted amounts on a shipping manager's performance report at a Daewoo distribution center.

2. Preparing the budget for research and development costs at a DuPont division.

3. Preparing adjusting journal entries for depreciation on the personnel manager's office equipment at Citibank.

4. Preparing a customer s monthly statement for a Sears store.

5. Processing the weekly payroll for the Harvard University maintenance department.

6. Explaining the product-design manager's performance report at a Chrysler division.

7. Analyzing the costs f several different ways to blend materials in the foundry of a Gen- eral Electric plant.

8. Tallying sales, by branches, for the sales vice president of Unilever.

9. Analyzing, for the president of Microsoft, the impact of a contemplated new product on net income.

10. Interpreting why an IBM sales district did not meet its sales quota.