Budgets Flashcards

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What are budgets

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financial plans that are prepared by an organisation to plan for expected income and expenses in budgeting period

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how do we prepare budgets

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top down or bottom up approach

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differentiate between static budgets and flexibe budgets

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static budgets are prepared for a set of activity for the period and no changes are made
flexible budgets are prepared fo a set of activity level and can be adjusted during the budget period for changes in the activity level .

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differentiate between zero based budget and incremental budget

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zero based budget- all the amounts included in the budget are estimated from scartch and no reference is made to previous expenses or budgets
incremmental budget-the previous year;s budget or actua results are used as a basis to prepare the budget .

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what budgets can be prepared for

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Master budgets include - budgeted financial statements ,cash flow budgets, capital expenditure budget ,operating budget which consists of 7 sales budget,production ,direct labour ,direct material ,purchasing ,staffing and adminstrative budgets .

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