Chapter 8: Master Budgeting Flashcards
is a detailed plan for the future that is usually expressed in formal quantitative terms.
Budget
involves developing goals and preparing various budgets to achieve those goals.
Planning
involves gathering feedback to ensure that the plan is being properly executed or modified as cir-
cumstances change.
Control
(6) Advantages of Budgeting
- communicate
- think about and plan
- allocating resources
- bottlenecks
- coordinate
- benchmarks
is that a manager should be held responsible for those items—and only those items—that the
manager can actually control to a significant extent.
Responsibility Accounting
is a 12-month budget that rolls forward one month (or quarter) as the current month (or quarter) is completed.
continuous or perpetual
budget
budget is a budget that is prepared with the full cooperation and participation of managers at all levels.
self-imposed budget or participative budget
- Which of the following statements is false? (You may select more than one answer.)
a. Control involves gathering feedback to ensure that the plan is being properly executed or modified as circumstances change.
b. Responsibility accounting is based on the belief that all managers should be held accountable for achieving the company’s overall goals, even if this requires holding some managers responsible for items that are beyond their control.
c. A self-imposed budget is prepared with the full cooperation and participation of managers at all levels of the organization.
d. One limitation of self-imposed budgets is that lower-level managers may allow too much budgetary slack.
B.
enables organizations to react quickly to deviations from their plans and to learn from feedback
Respinsiblity Accounting
consists of a number of separate but
interdependent budgets that formally lay out the company’s sales, production, and financial goals.
Master Budget
which is a detailed
schedule showing the expected sales for the budget period.
Sales Budget
10 schedules contained in the Master Budget
- Sales Budget
- Production Budget
- Ending Inventory Budget
- Selling & Administrative Expense Budget
- Direct Materials Budget
- Direct Labor Budget
- Manufacturing Overhead Budget
- Cash Budget
- Budgeted Income Statement
- Budgeted Balance Sheet
is a detailed plan showing how cash
resources will be acquired and used.
Cash Budget
If it were a merchandising company, instead it would prepare a ________________- showing the amount of goods to be purchased from suppliers during the period.
merchandise purchases
budget
- If a company has a beginning merchandise inventory of $50,000, a desired ending merchandise inventory of $30,000, and a budgeted cost of goods sold of $300,000, what is the amount of required inventory purchases?
a. $320,000
b. $280,000
c. $380,000
d. $300,000
B