The new CEO of a company decides to measure performance based on earnings growth and give every office manager in the company (200 of them) a bonus of 10% if earnings growth exceeds 8% and no bonus otherwise. Why might this be a poor incentive system?

Select one:

a.It ensures that responsibility and control are matched.

b.It will cost the company too much money.

c.It holds each manager responsible for many things he/she cannot control.

d.It is illegal to provide managers with profit-based bonuses.

e.It fails to hold people responsible for things they control that matter to the company.

Which of the following is the reason that ROI is not always a good performance evaluation measure for a responsibility center?

Select one:

a.Some responsibility centers do not have control of their investment activities.

b.Some responsibility centers have ROIs that are much higher than the firm's cost of capital.

c.Some responsibility centers have managers planning to change jobs in the near future.

d.Some responsibility centers have accounting systems that are vulnerable to manipulation.

e.All of the above

f.None of the above

Which of the following is not a plausible choice for a transfer price?

Select one:

a.Variable cost

b.Differential cost

c.Market price

d.Full cost

e.Sunk cost