Hanson is a fairly large manufacturing company. The company manufactures tennis rackets, tennis balls, tennis clothing and tennis shoes, all bearing the company's distinctive logo. The company's sales have been increasing over the past 20years. The tennis racket division has recently implemented several advanced manufacturing techniques. Robot arms hold the tennis rackets in place while glue dries, machine vision systems check for defects and the engineering and design team use computerized drafting and testing of new products. The following managers work in tennis division:
Adam, Sales Manager (supervises all sales representatives)
Johan, technical specialist (supervises computer programmers)
Sara, cost accounting manager (supervises cost accountant)
Fara, production supervisor (supervises all manufacturing employees)
Deanna, engineer (supervises all new product design teams)
(a)What are the primary information needs of each manager?
(b)Name one special-purpose management accounting report that could be designed for each manager. Write a report each and the information it contains for each manager supervising their function