Ch 7 Flashcards
The process of planning future business actions and expressing them as formal plans is called
.
budgeting
Characteristics of budgets include: (Check all that apply.)
expressed in dollars.
formal statement of a company’s plans.
typically cover a month, quarter or one year.
Identify the benefits of budgeting. Select all answers that apply.
Motivates employees.
Assists in the control function.
Focuses on future opportunities.
The …… function requires that management evaluate operations against some norm.
control
Budgeting guidelines that help insure budgeting is a positive motivating force include: (Check all that apply.)
attainable goals.
the opportunity to explain differences between actual and budgeted amounts.
participatory budgeting.
Budgeting is the process of planning future business activities and expressing them as:
strategic plans
A(n) …….. is a formal statement of a company’s plans in dollars.
budget
All of the following are potential negative outcomes of budgeting except:
overstatement of sales and understatement of expenses
Budgeting is used by management to ensure that activities of all departments work toward the company’s overall goals. This aspect of budgeting is called:
coordinate
Budgeted performance considers all of the following in relation to a benchmark: (Select all that apply).
Industry factors
Economic factors
Company factors
The primary purpose of using short-term budgets is to:
evaluate performance and take necessary corrective action
All of the following are guidelines that should be followed for budgets to be a positive motivating force except:
budgets should be prepared using a top-down approach
A …… budget is continually revised as time passes.
continuous
List the individual budgets of the master budget in the order in which they are prepared, with the first on top:
DM, DL, FOH Budgets
Cash budget
Production budget
Sales budget
Sales
Production
DM DL FOH
Cash
Potential negative outcomes of budgeting include: (Check all that apply.)
budgetary slack.
unnecessary spending.
unethical behavior.
All of the following are operating budgets except:
merchandising budget
Identify the benefits of budgeting. Select all answers that apply.
Assists in the control function.
Motivates employees.
Focuses on future opportunities.
Most companies prepare a(n) ______ budget that is separated into ______ budgets.
annual; quarterly or monthly
True or false: A production budget is unique in that it does not show costs; it is always expressed in units of product.
True
The budgeting process that involves adding a quarter (or month) to replace the quarter (or month) just elapsed is called:
continuous budgeting
A quantity of inventory that provides protection against lost sales caused by unfulfilled demands from customers or delays in shipments is called ….. stock.
safety
A manufacturing company would typically prepare all of the following budgets except:
Merchandise inventory budget
A manufacturer desires ending finished goods inventory of 5,000 units. Their budgeted unit sales are 20,000 units and beginning finished goods inventory is 3,000 units. The units to be produced is
22,000
(20,000+5,000)−3,000
A manufacturer’s operating budgets consists of the: (Check all that apply.)
selling expense budget
production budgets
sales budget
The first step in preparing the master budget is planning the ……
budget.
Sales
A manufacturer will prepare a ……..
budget which shows the number of units to be produced during a period.
production
A company expects to sell 500 units during the second quarter and 550 units in the third quarter. Currently, during the second quarter, they have 46 units in beginning inventory. If they desire ending inventory of 10% of the next quarter’s sales, ……
units will need to be produced in the second quarter.
509
(500+(550×10%))−46
A quantity of inventory that provides protection against lost sales caused by unfulfilled demands from customers is called
safety stock
The two steps to complete the production budget include: (Check all that apply.)
compute total required units
compute units to produce
A manufacturing company expects to sell 12,000 units in August and 15,000 units in September. The company desires to have an ending finished goods inventory of 80% of the next month’s sales. If beginning finished goods inventory on August 1 is 8,000 units, then the company should produce … units in August.
16000
(12,000+(15,000×80%))
−8,000
The formula to determine the materials to be purchased is
(units to produce times materials required for each unit) plus desired ending materials inventory minus beginning materials inventory
All of the following are operating budgets except:
merchandising budget