Evergreen Transportation is a domestic logistics company offering warehousing and transportation services. It is organized along product lines with three sectors: Agricultural, Manufactured Goods, and Petro-Chemicals. Each of the three sectors is further organized into geographic divisions: Eastern, Midwestern, Southern, and Western. Division vice presidents oversee both the marketing and operations for their units. Evergreen is highly decentralized with division presidents given authority to operate the business independently in terms of operations, investments, and marketing. Required: Match the following executives to the responsibility center that best represents their likely decision-making authority. > Answer is complete but not entirely correct. Executive Responsibility Center 1. Warehouse Manager, Manufactured Goods 2. Sector President, Agriculture Cost center Profit center × 3. Manager, Evergreen Corporate Human Resources (HR) Cost center × 4. Sales Manager, Petro-Chemicals 5. Vice President, Agriculture-Southern Division Discretionary cost center × Investment center ×

Evergreen Transportation is a domestic logistics company offering warehousing and transportation services. It is organized along product lines with three sectors: Agricultural, Manufactured Goods, and Petro-Chemicals. Each of the three sectors is further organized into geographic divisions: Eastern, Midwestern, Southern, and Western. Division vice presidents oversee both the marketing and operations for their units. Evergreen is highly decentralized with division presidents given authority to operate the business independently in terms of operations, investments, and marketing. Required: Match the following executives to the responsibility center that best represents their likely decision-making authority. > Answer is complete but not entirely correct. Executive Responsibility Center 1. Warehouse Manager, Manufactured Goods 2. Sector President, Agriculture Cost center Profit center × 3. Manager, Evergreen Corporate Human Resources (HR) Cost center × 4. Sales Manager, Petro-Chemicals 5. Vice President, Agriculture-Southern Division Discretionary cost center × Investment center ×

FINANCIAL ACCOUNTING

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Chapter1: Financial Statements And Business Decisions

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