CHAPTER 3 Predetermined Overhead Rates‚ Flexible Budgets‚ and Absorption/Variable Costing Questions 1. Although both variable and mixed costs change in total with activity measure changes‚ the difference is that variable costs change in direct proportion to such activity changes and mixed costs do not. Since a mixed cost has both a fixed and variable component‚ the cost per unit at different activity levels is not constant as it is with a variable cost. 2. No‚ these are not always the best points
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9 Popular Ways to Determine Your Marketing Budget 1. Percentage of revenues This is by far the most talked about method of determining your budget. This method works by taking a fixed percentage of your revenues (that’s every penny your company brings in) and allocating that amount for marketing. The most commonly used numbers are 5-10% (generally for bigger businesses)‚ 20% (used more for small businesses)‚ and 2-5% (very large companies). Picking the percentage that works best for you will probably
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Personal Budget Exercise – MS Excel (These instructions are also attached here as a Word document) Creating a spreadsheet to track personal expenses is an excellent use of Microsoft Excel. For this exercise‚ you will create a spreadsheet to enter a personal budget and track actual expenses for the year. You may choose to use real data or create a fictitious budget using a monthly income amount of $2‚500. Here are suggested budget categories if you are not using a real budget. At a minimum‚ you
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planning budget. Grants from donors and ticket sales were also higher. After completing the analysis for the Little Theatre we found that several items could be implemented to have an accurate cost model in the future. First‚ we prepared a flexible budget for the Little Theatre based on the actual activity of the year. We found that there were a number of cost items such as wages‚ scenery items‚ and administrative expenses that were under estimated compared to the original anticipated budget. We
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152 Ghapter 5 Exercises Some people are in favor of reducing federal taxes to increase consumer spending and others are against it. Two persons are selected and their opinions are recorded. Assuming no one is undecided‚ list the possible outcomes. 2. A quality control inspector selects a part to be tested. The part is then declared acceptable‚ repairable‚ or scrapped. Then another part is tested. List the possible outcomes of this experiment regarding two parts. tGE 3. A.r."y of 54 students at
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Determining causes and effects of not keeping a personal budget William E. David ENG115- English Composition Prof. Sandra McDonald March 10‚ 2015 It has been observed that most of the employees of Bank of America create individual budgets but do not keep a record of them. This is because most of the employees return to the bank for personal loans just two weeks after receiving their salaries. Due to this finding‚ the factory utilized financial analysts and decided to develop measures of controlling
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CHAPTER 5 ACTIVITY-BASED COSTING AND ACTIVITY-BASED MANAGEMENT 5-16 (20 min.) Cost hierarchy. 1. a. Indirect manufacturing labor costs of $1‚450‚000 support direct manufacturing labor and are output unit-level costs. Direct manufacturing labor generally increases with output units‚ and so will the indirect costs to support it. b. Batch-level costs are costs of activities that are related to a group of units of a product rather than each individual unit of a product. Purchase order-related
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Variance Analysis 1. Define standard costs and describe how managers use standard costs in the management cycle. 2. Explain how standard costs are developed and compute a standard unit cost. 3. Prepare a flexible budget and describe how variance analysis is used to control costs. 4. Compute and analyze direct materials variances. 5. Compute and analyze direct labor variances. 6. Compute and analyze manufacturing overhead variances. 7. Explain how variances are used to evaluate managers’ performance
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Revenue Service year beginning ending 2011 For calendar year 2011‚ or tax Part III Partner’s Share of Current Year Income‚ Deductions‚ Credits‚ and Other Items 1 Ordinary business income (loss) 15 Credits Final K-1 Amended K-1 OMB No. 1545-0099 Jan Dec ‚ 2011 ‚ 20 103‚300 2 3 4 5 6a 6b 7 Net rental real estate income (loss) Other net rental income (loss) 16 Foreign transactions 11 Partner’s Share of Income‚ Deductions‚ ▶ See back of form and separate instructions. Credits
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V372: Trexler Government Finance & Budgets Fiscal Administration‚ 9 th Edition John Mikesell Chapter 5: Budget Methods and Practices The Budget Cycle Guidance from the Executive ► Includes: Chief executive’s main goals Forecasts (inflation‚ populations‚ etc.) Formatting instructions Budget schedules Resource availability ► Not likely to find this document in the public domain Agency Budget Requests ► Includes: Narrative Cumulative schedules (summary tables) Detailed schedules
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