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Managerial Accounting in the Information Age assume a sales level of $11,000,.000. This level of sales is to be achieved without adding to the sales force. ew's sales group occupies approximately 250 square feet of office space out of total administrative office space of 20,000 square feet. The $3,000 space charge in Matthew's budget is his share (allocated based on relative square feet) of the company's total cost of rent, utilities, and janitorial costs for the administrative office building. REQUIRED Prepare a revised budget consistent with the president's recommendation. PROBLEM 1-4. Performance Reports [LO 1] A performance report that compares budgeted and actual profit in the sporting goods department of Maxwell's Department Store for the month of December follows: Maxwell's Department Store Sporting Goods Performance Report December 2017 Budget $700,000 350,000 Actual Difference $775,000 Sales Less: $75,000 Cost of merchandise Salaries of sales staf 430,000 78,000 80,000 8,000 70,000 Controllable profit $280,000 $267,000 (513,000) REQUIRED a. Evaluate the department in terms of its increases in sales and expenses. Do you believe it would be useful to investigate either or both of the increases in expenses? b. Consider storewide electricity cost. Would this cost be a controllable or a noncontrollable cost for the manager of sporting goods? Would it be useful to include a share of storewide clectricity cost on the performance report for sporting goods? PROBLEM 1-5. Performance Reports [LO 1, 2] At the end of 2017, Cyril Central Products, company's plant in Forest Lake, Minnesota: Fedaka, CFO ir received a report comparing budgeted and actual production costs for the Manufacturing Costs