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Case: You are the manager of accounting for Turlock Tech, a computer company that sells computer-software packages. You have just received word from the comptroller that there has been a change in the expense allowances for employees using their own cars on business. Previously, one rate was applied to all employees, but now there will be different allowance rates for regular and nonregular drivers.

Effective immediately, regular drivers will receive $1.00 per mile for the first 650 miles driven per month, and 25¢ for each additional mile. Nonregular drivers will receive 80¢ per mile for the first 150 miles per month, and 25¢ for each additional mile. Regular drivers are those who use their own cars frequently on the job to drive to their sales territories. Nonregular drivers are those employees-such as home-office personnel-who only occasionally use their cars on business. To ensure that these categories are used properly, you have requested that the manager of each department notify Accounts Payable, in writing, which employees in each of their departments should be classified as regular drivers. Accounts Payable will reimburse those employees not identified by the letter according to the nonregular driver formula.

CREATE memo to communicate this information to all Turlock Tech employees.

Things to Consider:

Purpose: what are you trying to accomplish with this document?

Audience: who is your audience and what are their information needs?

Organization: how could you organize information to be easily navigated for your audience? What information needs to be emphasized? Hint: the way the information is presented in this assignment's instructions is NOT the best way to organize the information.

Document design: how could you best present this information on the page for your reader?

Genre: what are the formatting and content features of a memo?