Love All is a fairly large manufacturing company of hockey equipment, located in Toronto. The company manufactures hockey sticks, pucks, clothing, and skates, all bearing the company's distinctive logo, a large green question mark on a white flocked hockey puck. The company's sales have been increasing over the past 10 years.
The hockey sticks division has recently implemented several advanced manufacturing techniques. Robot arms hold the hockey sticks in place while glue dries, and machine vision systems check for defects. The engineering and design team uses computerized drafting and testing of new products. The following managers work in the hockey sticks division:

Hayley Geagea, sales manager (supervises all sales representatives)
Luc Lemieux, technical specialist (supervises computer programmers)
Gary Richardson, cost accounting manager (supervises costaccountants)
Manny Cordoza, production supervisor (supervises all manufacturing employees)
Patrick Dumoulin, engineer (supervises all new-product designteams)

Instructions

(a) What are the primary information needs of each manager?
(b) Which, if any, financial accounting report(s) is each likely to use?
(c) Name one special-purpose management accounting report thatcould be designed for each manager. Include the name of the report,the information it would contain, and how frequently it should beissued.