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- 1. Work of ManagementPlanningControllingDirecting and MotivatingRemember!
- 2. Planning and ControlPlanning -- involves developing objectives and preparing various budgets to achieve these objectives.Control -- involves the steps taken by management that attempt to ensure the objectives are attained.
- 3. It uncovers potential bottlenecks before they occur. It coordinates the activities of the entire organization by integrating the plans and objectives of the various parts. It ensures that accounting records comply with generally accepted accounting principles. It provides benchmarks for evaluating subsequent performance. Which of the following is not a benefit of budgeting?
- 4. Advantages of BudgetingAdvantagesCommunicating plansThink about and plan for the futureMeans of allocating resourcesUncover potential bottlenecksCoordinate activitiesDefine goal and objectives
- 5. Responsibility Accounting Managers should be held responsible for those items — and only those items — that the manager can actually control to a significant extent.
- 6. Fairmont Inc. uses an accounting system that charges costs to the manager who has been delegated the authority to make decisions concerning the costs. For example, if the sales manager accepts a rush order that will result in higher than normal manufacturing costs, these additional costs are charged to the sales manager because the authority to accept or decline the rush order was given to the sales manager. This type of accounting system is known as:A) responsibility accounting. B) contribution accounting. C) absorption accounting. D) operational budgeting.
- 7. Choosing the Budget PeriodOperating Budget1999200020012002The annual operating budget may be divided into quarterly or monthly budgets.
- 8. Choosing the Budget Period1999200020012002Continuous or Perpetual BudgetThis budget is usually a twelve-month budget that rolls forward one month as the current month is completed.
- 9. Participative Budget SystemFlow of Budget Data
- 10. The Budget CommitteeA standing committee responsible for overall policy matters relating to the budget coordinating the preparation of the budget
- 11. A method of budgeting in which the cost of each program must be justified every year is called: operational budgeting. zero-based budgeting. continuous budgeting. responsibility accounting.
- 12. Zero-Base BudgetingManagers are required to justify all budgeted expenditures, not just changes in the budget from the previous year. The baseline is zero rather than last year’s budget.
- 13. Let us practice on the basics of budgeting!
- 14. Parlee Company's sales are 30% in cash and 70% on credit. Sixty percent of the credit sales are collected in the month of sale, 25% in the month following sale, and 12% in the second month following sale. The remainder are uncollectible. The following are budgeted sales data: Total sales: January $60,000 February $70,000 March $50,000 April $30,000Total cash receipts in April would be budgeted to be: A) $38,900. B) $47,900. C) $27,230. D) $36,230.
- 15. Modesto Company produces and sells Product AlphaB. To guard against stockouts, the company requires that 20% of the next month's sales be on hand at the end of each month. Budgeted sales of Product AlphaB over the next four months are: Budgeted sales in units June July August September 30,000 40,000 60,000 50,000Budgeted production for August would be: A) 62,000 units. B) 70,000 units. C) 58,000 units. D) 50,000 units.
- 16. Friden Company has budgeted sales and production over the next quarter as follows: April May June Sales in units 100,000 120,000 ? Production in units 104,000 128,000 156,000 The company has 20,000 units of product on hand at April 1. A minimum of 20% of the next month's sales needs in units must be on hand at the end of each month. July sales are expected to be 140,000 units. Budgeted sales for June would be (in units): A) 188,000. B) 160,000. C) 128,000. D) 184,000
- 17. Marple Company's budgeted production in units and budgeted raw materials purchases over the next three months are given below: January February March Budgeted production (in units) 60,000 ? 100,000 Budgeted raw materials purchases (in kilograms) 129,000 165,000 188,000 Two kilograms of raw materials are required to produce one unit of product. The company wants raw materials on hand at the end of each month equal to 30% of the following month's production needs. The company is expected to have 36,000 kilograms of raw materials on hand on January 1. Budgeted production for February should be: A) 105,000 units. B) 82,500 units. C) 150,000 units. D) 75,000 units.
- 18. Now, the motivational side of budgeting!
- 19. Budgets can be defined as: “a quantitative model, or summary of the expected consequences of the organization’s short-term operating activities.” Management Accounting Atkinson, Banker, Kaplan & YoungWhat is this definition implying?
- 20. The definition suggests:Availability of quantitative data, Predictability of short-term outcomes, Clear-cut organizational structures. There is one major logical problem, which is? If the above are true, what do you need the budget for?
- 21. The budgetary process is rather a processTo quantify “qualitative” judgment, To forecast the impacts of some uncertain events, To simplify the complex organizational structures.
- 22. As Zimmerman indicated (p.244), the budget processis a communication device involving both vertical and horizontal information transfer is a negotiation and internal contracting procedure is part of the performance evaluation system partition decision rights
- 23. Budgets to Solve “Agency” ProblemsShort-term budgets as internal contracts. To formally commit responsibility centers As a warning for future monitoring actions Long-term budgets to reduce information asymmetry. To solicit private, specialized information from local managers Force managers to think strategically, rather than on just the short-term results
- 24. Budgets to Solve “Agency” ProblemsLine-item budgets Authorize managers to spend only up to a certain amount per line item Cannot transfer excess to and from line-items No incentive to reduce spending Budget lapsing – no carryovers to next period Incentive to spend all the budgeted amounts Intend to avoid managers building up slacks and smoothing performance over time
- 25. International Aspects of BudgetingMultinational companies face special problems when preparing a budget. Fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates. High inflation rates in some foreign countries. Differences in local economic conditions. Local governmental policies.
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