Question: This has to do with making a scorecard with accounting principles.....This is all about accounting. I need help making a scorecard. ...oo Sprint LTE 9:07
This has to do with making a scorecard with accounting principles.....This is all about accounting. I need help making a scorecard.


...oo Sprint LTE 9:07 PM C T 22% Touch to resume FaceTime 01:11:45 Microsoft Corporation ACC 116 Managerial Accounting Ch 24 Responsibility Accounting and Performance Barbara Hordis LO 2 Balanced Scorecard-Haglund Department St Haglund Department Store is located in the downtown area of a small city. While the store had been profitable for many years, it is facing increasing competition from large national chains that have set up stores on the outskirts of the city. Recently the downtown area has been undergoing revitalization, and the owners of Haglund Department Store are somewhat optimistic that profitability can be restored. In an attempt to accelerate the return to profitability, management of Haglund Department Store is in the process of designing a balanced scorecard for the company. Management believes the company should focus on two key problems. First, customers are taking longer and longer to pay the bills they incur using the department store's charge card, and the company has far more bad debts than are normal for the industry. If this problem were solved, the company would have more cash to make much needed renovations. Investigation has revealed that much of the problem with late payments and unpaid bills results from customers disputing incorrect charges on their bills. These incorrect charges usually occur because salesclerks incorrectly enter data on the charge account slip. Second, the company has been incurring large losses on unsold seasonal apparel. Such items are ordinarily resold at a loss to discount stores that specialize in such distress items. The meeting in which the balanced scorecard approach was discussed was disorganized and ineffectively led-possibly because no one other than one of the vice presidents had read anything about how to build a balanced scorecard. Nevertheless, a number of potential performance measures were suggested by various managers. These potential performance measures are
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