CHAPTER 9 PROFIT PLANNING AND BUDGETING Questions‚ Exercises‚ Problems‚ and Cases: Answers and Solutions 9.1 See text or glossary at the end of the book. 9.2 A cost center is a responsibility center in which management is responsible only for costs. In a profit center‚ management is responsible for both costs and revenues. 9.3 An investment center is a responsibility center in which management is responsible for managing costs‚ revenues‚ and assets. A profit center is not responsible
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a. Traditional Budgeting Wildavsky (1978‚ p.502) mentions that "traditional budgeting is annual (repeated yearly) and incremental (departing marginally from the year before)". It is conducted on a cash basis in current dollar. It is also in the form of line-items such as personnel or maintenance. This system is essentially a financial plan of estimated expenditures expressed in terms of kinds and quantities of objects to be bought and the estimated funds needed to finance them during a specified
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Performance based budgeting The budget remains the single most important issue facing the courts. Since the financial crisis of 2008‚ the budgets for the federal judiciary have been decreased roughly 8 percent‚ i.e. $555 million from $7 billion a year. The judiciary reduced its overall workforce through layoffs by 5‚400 court staff‚ which is roughly one quarter of its total workforce. Unfortunately‚ the organization has to follow the budgets. Budget cuts are gradually harming court system and
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Public budgeting systems are systems for making choices of ends and means. The purpose of budgeting is to allocate scarce resources among competing public demands so as to attain societal goals and objectives (Lee‚ 49). Depending upon conditions at a given time in history‚ budgets have tended to emphasize financial control‚ managerial improvements‚ or planning. The government should adopt a biennial budget. Proponents of biennial budgeting believe that the federal government would benefit from
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organization recently purchased some office equipment on account. The proper entry would involve a debit to Office Equipment and credit to Accounts Payable. (Yes. The proper entry would be a debit to Office Equipment and a credit to Accounts Payable.) 5. The income statement and balance sheet approaches are used to estimate uncollectible accounts. Which of the following comments applies to both of these approaches The aging process is often used to obtain proper valuation amounts. (Yes. The aging
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BUDGETING AND BUDGETARY CONTROL . Budget A plan quantified in monetary terms and approved prior to a defined period of time‚ usually showing planned income to be generated and for expenditure to be incurred during that period‚ to attain a given objective. The preparation of budgets is not something that can be carried out by accountants alone. It requires the participation of many managers and other personnel to ensure that the plans for the forthcoming period are translated
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Capital budgeting (or investment appraisal) is the planning process used to determine whether an organization ’s long term investments such as new machinery‚ replacement machinery‚ new plants‚ new products‚ and research development projects are worth pursuing. It is budget for major capital‚ or investment‚ expenditures.[1] Many formal methods are used in capital budgeting‚ including the techniques such as * Accounting rate of return * Payback period * Net present value * Profitability
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ACC 307: Cost Accounting Fall 2012 Practice Exam II I. TRUE / FALSE 1. A budget generally includes both financial and nonfinancial aspects of the plan. 2. The revenues budget should be based on the production budget. 3. A favorable variance should be ignored by management. 4. The direct manufacturing labor price variance is likely to be unfavorable if lower-skilled workers are put on a job. 5. For fixed overhead costs‚ the flexible-budget amount is always the same as the
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Capital budgeting is the process of evaluating a company’s potential investments and deciding which ones to accept. A company’s market value added (MVA) is the sum of all its projects’ net present values (NPVs). Basically‚ one can calculate the free cash flows (FCFs) for a project in much the same way as for a firm. When a project’s free cash flows are discounted at the appropriate risk-adjusted rate‚ the result is the project’s value. One difference between valuing a firm and a project is the
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Behavioral Aspects of Budgeting The technical process for setting a budget emphasizes the need for involvement at all stages of the process. In an ideal world that would produce the best solution. However‚ the world is not ideal and not everyone can be allowed to do exactly as he or she would wish at the first instance. So potential conflicts arise and those involved in the budgetary process need to be aware of the behavioral aspects in order to maximize the good points and minimize the problems
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