[Chapter 9] Flashcards
Activity-based responsibility accounting focuses on processes and uses both operational and financial measures.
TRUE
Activity-based responsibility accounting employs dynamic standards and emphasizes and supports continuous improvement.
TRUE
A strategic-based responsibility accounting system transforms the strategy of a company into operational objectives and measures.
TRUE.
On the other hand, activity-based responsibility accounting focuses on processes and uses both operational and financial measures.
The most common form of strategic-based responsibility accounting system is the worksheet.
FALSE.
One of the most common form of a strategic based control system (SBCS) is the BALANCED SCORECARD.
In a strategic-based responsibility accounting system, stretch targets are established for individual performance measures.
TRUE
The balanced scorecard is a strategic-based performance management system that identifies four perspectives.
TRUE
Strategy translation means specifying objectives and percentage of revenues from sale of products.
FALSE
Strategy translation means specifying objectives, measures, targets, and initiatives for each perspective.
The customer perspective defines the customer and market segments in which the business unit will compete.
TRUE
Customer value is the sum of realization and sacrifice what the customer gives up and receives.
FALSE.
Customer value is the DIFFERENCE between realization and sacrifice.
Strategic information availability include processes with real-time feedback.
TRUE
Performance measures are derived from a company’s vision, strategy, and objectives.
TRUE
To link measures to a strategy, they must be derived from management and be balanced.
FALSE
To link measures to a strategy, they must be derived from STRATEGY.
Double-loop feedback occurs when managers get information about the effectiveness and the validity of the strategy.
TRUE
Single-loop feedback emphasizes only the effectiveness of implementation, not the validity of the assumptions.
The strategy map connects the balanced scorecard strategy with an organization’s administration.
FALSE
A strategy map is a useful tool that graphically illustrates the cause-and-effect relationships and connects the Balanced Scorecard strategy with an organization’s OPERATING ACTIVITIES.
A testable strategy is a set of linked objectives aimed at an overall goal.
TRUE
In order for the balanced scorecard to succeed, the entire organization must be behind it.
TRUE
Articulation of the balanced scorecard should not be made to individuals within the organization.
FALSE
The scorecard objectives and measures, once developed, become the means for articulating and communicating the strategy of the organization to its employees and managers.
Incentives must be structured and resources allocated to support the strategy chosen.
TRUE
Performance expectations must be established once objectives and measures have been executed and advertised.
FALSE
Once objectives and measures have been DEFINED and COMMUNICATED, performance expectations must be established.
Compensation should be based on performance and paid based on percentage of objective achieved.
TRUE
Outcome measures that are a result of past efforts are called __________ measures.
LAG
Outcome measures that are expressed in monetary terms are called __________ measures.
FINANCIAL
Dissatisfied customers are an example of a __________ measure
NONFINANCIAL
The targets aimed at transforming the organization within a period of 3 to 5 years are called __________ targets.
STRETCH
Choosing general goals, customer segment, and nature of a business are all concern of strategy __________ .
TRANSLATION
Strategy translation involves the following concerns:
- choosing general goals
- choosing customer segment
- defining the nature of a business
Setting balanced objectives, target values, and rewards are steps in developing the __________ .
BALANCED SCORECARD
Training hours is an example of a(n) __________ measure.
LEAD
A set of linked objectives aimed at an overall goal is the definition of a __________ strategy.
TESTABLE
For strategic alignment, incentive compensation should be based on __________ performance, compared to target values.
ACTUAL
In a balanced scorecard, performance expectations are communicated by setting __________ .
TARGETS
Activity-based responsibility accounting adds which of the following to the financial-based responsibility accounting perspective?
a. consumer perspective
b. functional perspective
c. process perspective
d. learning perspective
process perspective
A competitive environment means that organizations will be
a. producing increasingly high-volume, low-variety products and services.
b. focused internally on efficiency.
c. managing cause and effect linkages to customer satisfaction.
d. viewing their actions independent of competitors, suppliers, and customers.
managing cause and effect linkages to customer satisfaction.
Which of the following responsibility accounting systems translates the STRATEGY of an organization into operational objectives and measures?
a. Financial-based responsibility accounting
b. Operational-based responsibility accounting
c. Activity-based responsibility accounting
d. Strategic-based responsibility accounting
Strategic-based responsibility accounting
Which of the following is NOT true about activity-based responsibility accounting?
a. The emphasis changes from cost reduction through change to cost control.
b. The emphasis includes financial results as well as how things are done.
c. Responsibility moves from one dimension to two dimensions.
d. It moves from a control system to a performance management system.
The emphasis changes from cost reduction through change to cost control.
What are the two additional perspectives that are added to the activity-based approach to achieve strategic-based responsibility?
a. a customer perspective and a learning and growth perspective
b. an infrastructure perspective and a process perspective
c. a customer perspective and a financial perspective
d. a financial perspective and a process perspective
a customer perspective and a learning and growth perspective
Which of the following is true about a strategic-based responsibility accounting system?
a. It fails to connect with an organization’s overall mission and strategy.
b. It expands the number of responsibility dimensions from one to two.
c. It does not work for firms operating in dynamic environments.
d. It can take the form of a Balanced Scorecard.
It can take the form of a Balanced Scorecard.
Directed continuous improvement is accomplished by linking initiatives to
a. processes.
b. strategy and mission.
c. financial outcomes.
d. measures.
strategy and mission.
Which of the following is NOT an advantage of strategic-based responsibility accounting?
a. It includes perspectives that serve as a source of competitive advantage.
b. Responsibility is centralized within the organization.
c. Change efforts are directed by the mission and strategy.
d. All are advantages of strategic-based responsibility accounting.
Responsibility is centralized within the organization is NOT one of the advantages of strategic-based responsibility accounting.
Advantages of strategic-based responsibility accounting:
- It includes perspectives that serve as a source of competitive advantage.
- Change efforts are directed by the mission and strategy.
Which of the following is a perspective of strategic-based responsibility accounting but is NOT a perspective of activity-based responsibility accounting?
a. financial perspective
b. process perspective
c. customer perspective
d. all of the above
customer perspective
Strategic-based responsibility accounting brings both customer perspective and learning and growth perspective—both of which are absent in activity-based responsibility accounting.
The most common strategic-based performance management system is
a. variance analysis with standard costs as benchmarks.
b. the balanced scorecard.
c. financial budgets.
d. all of the above.
the balanced scorecard.
Which of the following is true of a Balanced Scorecard?
a. It fails to connect with an organization’s overall mission and strategy.
b. It is the most common form of an activity-based responsibility accounting system.
c. It does not work for firms operating in dynamic environments.
d. It is a strategic-based performance management system that identifies objectives and measures for four different perspectives.
It is a strategic-based performance management system that identifies objectives and measures for four different perspectives.
It is a form of SBCS, not an activity-based responsibility accounting system.