Accounting for Decision Making and Control 6th Edition by Jerold Zimmerman

Exercise 31

Videx is the premier firm in the security systems industry. Martha Rameriz is an account manager at Videx responsible for selling residential systems. She is compensated based on beating a predetermined sales budget. The last seven years' sales budgets and actual sales data follow. Videx sets its sales budgets centrally in a top-down fashion.
Required:
a. Martha Rameriz sells $908,000 in year 7. What budget will she be assigned for year 8
b. Suppose Rameriz sells $900,000 of systems in year 7. What budget will she be assigned in year 8