Sloan Sporting Goods has stores in four geographic regions.Each region has at least 20 stores.In the company's responsibility accounting system,sales are recorded separately for each sales department within each store.The total sales for a particular region are determined by:

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The best choice is to combine the total sales of all stores in that region to determine the total sales for that region. This method provides an accurate representation of the sales in each region and allows for effective comparison and analysis of sales performance among the regions. Using separate revenue accounts for each region (choice B) would be overly complex and could potentially lead to errors in recording and analyzing sales data. Taking a percentage of the company's total sales based on the number of stores in each region (choice C) would not accurately reflect the actual sales performance in each region, as the number of stores does not necessarily correlate to sales volume. Adding together individual sales transactions in the region (choice D) would also be time-consuming and impractical for analyzing overall sales performance.

Sloan Sporting Goods Has Stores in Four Geographic Regions