PostNews.com offers its subscribers several services, such as an annotated TV guide and local-area information on weather, restaurants, and movie theaters. Its main revenue sources are fees for banner advertisements and fees from subscribers. Recent data are as follows:

The following decisions were made from June through October 2017:

a. June 2017: Raised subscription fee to $25.50 per month from July 2017 onward. The budgeted number of subscribers for this monthly fee is shown in the following table.

b. June 2017: Informed existing subscribers that from July onward, monthly fee would be $25.50.

c. July 2017: Offered e-mail service to subscribers and upgraded other online services.

d. October 2017: Dismissed the vice president of marketing after significant slowdown in subscribers and subscription revenues, based on July through September 2017 data in the following table.

e. October 2017: Reduced subscription fee to $22.50 per month from November 2017 onward.
Results for July–September 2017 are as follows:

1. Classify each of the decisions (a–e) as a planning or a control decision.
2. Give two examples of other planning decisions and two examples of other control decisions that may be made at PostNews.com.

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Month/Year June 2015 Advertising Revenues of Subscribers $415,972 29,745 Actual Number Monthly Fee per Subscriber $15.50 December 2015 867,246 55,223 20.50 June 2016 892,134 59,641 20.50 December 2016 1,517,950 87,674 20.50 June 2017 2,976,538 147,921 20.50