Required:

Assuming that the above report is the only one received by Jill and Ray, what suggestions do you have to improve reporting? Be specific, sketching the report. Indicate the frequency of the report and to whom it should be directed.

$2.$ Hans Burgstaller, marketing and sales manager of Columbus Cable TV$,$ Inc. $($Exhibit $5\mathrm{.}2)$ retained a new consultant in $2022$ to plan and monitor the annual fall advertising campaign that was designed to increase the number of subscribers and persuade subscribers to move to higher priced services. While the numbers and service profiles in Exhibit $5\mathrm{.}2$ show improvements for October $2021,$ this might be typical of such campaigns. Mr$.$ Burgstaller wonders how the results for October $2022$ compare with last year. New subscribers for October $2022$ for basic, super, and premium service were $1,234,296,$ and $599,$ respectively, and lost subscribers were $450,563,$ and

Chapter $5R$

$3.$ What general relationship exists between:

a$.$ the type of data reported and the frequency of reporting?

b$.$ the type of data reported and the job function of the report recipient?

$4.$ Discuss the four basic steps that go into the creation of an instance document.

$5.$ Define an instance document.

$6.$ Name some XBRL taxonomies.

$7.$ Explain the difference in extensible markup language $($XML$)$ and hypertext markup language $($HTML$).$

$8.$ Refer to the example in the chapter regarding advertising expense accounts required for a department store. Assume that the store's accounting software permits a general ledger account number with the following attributes:

The first field consisting of three digits uniquely identifies the account, distinguishing it from other general ledger accounts and places it in the correct location in the chart of accounts.

The second field has four digits, each of which may be used as individual fields or used in combination.

The report writer for the software package permits you to use the question mark $(?)$ as a wildcard symbol when specifying which accounts to include in a report. For example, the specification $330.?4??$ includes in a report all accounts having the first field equal to $330$ and the second digit in the second