Recently, International Thomson Publishing acquired the publisher of this text¬ book, West Educational Publishing, in a transaction valued at $3.4 billion. Find the Thomson Corporation home page and read materials provided there dis¬ cussing the merger. What was the apparent motivation for the merger? As a member of the top management team at Thomson, what recommendations would you make for the design of the responsibility accounting system to be used to evaluate West’s management?

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