BEC 5 Flashcards
Test Strategy
If you read all the answers and a few of them sound good, consider that you missed an except in the question
Characteristic of a Defivative
No net investment
Underlying Amount
Notational Amount
Net Settlement Amount
Operating Budget What does it do
Emphasis is on obtaining and using current resources
What are the components of the operating budget?
Sales Budget Production Budget Direct Materials Budget Direct Labor Budget Manufacturing Overhead Budget COGS Budget Non-Manufacturing Budget Research and Development Selling and Administrative Pro-Forma Income Statement No Balance sheet or Cash flows
Financial Budget What is it’s emphasis
Obtaining funds needed to purchase operating assets
Component of the Financial Budget
Capital Budget Cash Budget Projected Disbursement Schedule Projected CAsh Collection schedule Proforma Balance Sheet Pro Forma Stmnt of Cash Flows
Master Budget Process page 432 Gleim
Short-term goals
Sales Budget
Production Budget
COGS Budget (DL
What methods of capital budgeting don’t consider depreciation if tax effects are ignored
IRR, NPV, Payback
Which method consider cash flows
IRR NPV Payback
CAPITAL TURNOVER
SALES / INVESTED CAPITAL
RESIDUAL INCOME SYNONYM
COST OF CAPITAL
Product life cycle stages
Introduction
Growth
Maturity (Profits are Highest)
Decline
STages of product life cycle with highest number of firms
Maturity
Strategic Planning is (and is opposed to operational planning)
Strategic planning establishes the general direction of an organization. It embodies the concerns of senior management and is based specifically on (1) identifying and specifying organizational objectives; (2) evaluating the organization’s strengths and weaknesses; (3) assessing risk levels; (4) identifying and forecasting the effect of external (environmental) factors relevant to the organization; (5) deriving the best strategy for reaching the objectives, given the organization’s strengths and weaknesses and the relevant future trends; and (6) analyzing and reviewing the capital budgeting process and capacity planning.
Operational Planning (versus strategic)
Answer (A) is incorrect.
Decisions to use parts of the organization’s resources in specified ways defines operational planning.