Potter- Bowen (PB) manufactures and sells postage meters throughout the world. Postage meters print the necessary postage
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PB is organized into Research and Development, Manufacturing, and Marketing. Marketing is further subdivided into four sectors: North America, South America, Europe, and Asia. The North American marketing sector has a sales force organized into 32 regions with approximately 75 to 200 salespeople per region.
The budgeting process begins with the chief financial officer (CFO) and the vice president of marketing jointly projecting the total sales for the next year. Their staffs look at trends of the various PB models and project total unit sales by model within each marketing sector. Price increases are forecast and dollar sales per model are calculated. The North American sector is then given a target number of units and a target revenue by model for the year. The manager of the North American sector, Helen Neumann, and her staff then allocate the divisions target units and target revenue by region.
The target unit sales for each model per region are derived by taking the regions historical percentage sales for that machine times North Americas target for that model. For example, model 6103 has North American target unit sales of 18,500 for next year. The Utah region last year sold 4.1 percent of all model 6103s sold in North America. Therefore, Utahs target of 6103s for next year is 758 units (4.1% 18,500). The average sales price of the 6103 is set at $ 11,000. Thus, Utahs revenue budget for 6103s is $ 8,338,000. Given the total forecasted unit sales, average selling prices, and historical sales of each model in all regions, each region is assigned a unit target and revenue budget by model. The regions total revenue budget is the sum of the individual models revenue targets.
Each salesperson in the region is given a unit and revenue target by model using a similar procedure. If Gary Lindenmeyer ( a salesperson in Utah) sold 6 percent of Utahs 6103s last year, his unit sales target of 6103s next year is 45 units ( 6% 758). His total revenue target for 6103s is $ 495,000
(or 45 $ 11,000). Totaling all the models gives each salespersons total revenue budget. Sales-people are paid a fixed salary plus a bonus. The bonus is calculated based on the following table:
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Critically evaluate PBs sales budgeting system and sales force compensation system. Describe any potential dysfunctional behaviors that PBs systems are likely togenerate.
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Accounting for Decision Making and Control
ISBN: 978-0078025747
8th edition
Authors: Jerold Zimmerman
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