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OBJECTIVE 1 Exercise 9-49 Planning and Control a. Dr.Jones, a dentist, wants to increase the size and profitability of his business by building a reputation for quality and timely service b. To achieve this, he plans on adding a dental laboratory to his building so that crowns bridges, and dentures can be made in-house. Continued) c. To add the laboratory, he needs additional money, which he decides must be obtained by increasing revenues. After some careful calculation, Dr.Jones concludes that annual revenues must be increased by 10%. Dr.Jones finds that his fees for fillings and crowns are below the average in his community and decides that the 10% increase can be achieved by increasing these fees. He then identifies the quantity offillings and crowns expected for the coming year, the new per-unit fee, and the total fees expected. d. e. f As the year unfolds (on a month-by-month basis), Dr.Jones compares the actual revenues g. h. i. However, to make up the shortfall, he also increased the price of some of his other services received with the budgeted revenues. For the first 3 months, actual revenues were less than planned. Upon investigating, he discovered that he had some reduction in the number of patients because he had also changed his available hours of operation. He returned to his old sehedule and found out that the number of patients was restored to the original expected levels. Required: Match each statement with the following planning and control elements. (Note: A letter may be matched to more than one item.) 1. Corrective actiorn 2. Budgets 3. Feedbaclk 5. Short-term plan 6. Comparison of actual with planned 7. Monitoring of actual activity 8. Strategie plan 9. Short-tem objectives 10 Long-term objectives

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