(Solved by Humans)-Problem 14-23 Behavioral impact of budgeting Shahid Corporation has three divisions, each...

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Problem 14-23   Behavioral impact of budgeting Shahid Corporation has three divisions, each operating as a responsibility center. To provide an incentive for divisional executive officers, the company gives divisional management a bonus equal to 20 percent of the excess of actual net income over budgeted net income. The following is Chaudhry Division’s current year’s performance.       Sales revenue Current Year $4,000,000 Cost of goods sold   2,500,000 Gross profit 1,500,000 Selling & admin. expenses     900,000 Net income $ 600,000   The president has just received next year’s budget proposal from the vice president in charge of Chaudhry Division. The proposal budgets a 5 percent increase in sales revenue with an exten- sive explanation about stiff market competition. The president is puzzled. Chaudhry has enjoyed revenue growth of around 10 percent for each of the past five years. The president had consist- ently approved the division’s budget proposals based on 5 percent growth in the past. This time, the president wants to show that he is not a fool. “I will impose a 15 percent revenue increase to teach them a lesson!” the president says to himself smugly. Assume that cost of goods sold and selling and administrative expenses remain stable in pro- portion to sales. Required a.     Prepare the budgeted income statement based on Chaudhry Division’s proposal of a 5 per- cent increase. b.     If growth is actually 10 percent as usual, how much bonus would Chaudhry Division’s exec- utive officers receive if the president had approved the division’s proposal? c.     Prepare the budgeted income statement based on 15 percent increase that the president imposed. d.     If the actual results turn out to be a 10 percent increase as usual, how much bonus would Chaudhry Division’s executive officers receive since the president imposed a 15 percent increase? e.     Propose a better budgeting procedure for Shahid.