1. What is budgetary slack? What incentive do managers have to create budgetary slack? Budgetary slack is when “managers intentionally underestimate budgeted revenues or overestimate budgeted expenses in order to make it easier to achieve budgetary goals” (1020). Managers have an incentive to do this to give them a little more rope when dealing with the budget. By giving the budget some slack they can give themselves a little room in achieving their goals‚ rather than simply dealing with a hard
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Budgetary Control is the process of establishing of departmental budgets relating the responsibilities of executives to the requirements of a policy‚ and the continuous comparison of actual with budgeted results‚ either to secure by individual action the objectives of that policy‚ or to provide a firm basis for its revision. The primary objective of budgetary control is to help the management in systematic planning and in controlling the operations of the enterprise. The primary objective can be
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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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Essay by Bereketeab Yacob Yohannes Budget and budgetary control has being dealt with in different ways in literature‚ but basically there has being critics on traditional budgetary control as new issues raised with current more unpredictable global internationalized world markets. Virtually conventional budgeting has roughly some categories of criticism‚ one being that budgets by the time they are used their assumption are out-dated especially in rapidly changing environments‚ the second recurrent
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QUESTION 1 – Budgeting Process and Budgetary Control I have been asked to advise two entirely different businesses about the benefits and problems associated with what is termed the “traditional approach to budgeting and budgetary control”. One of the businesses operates in a very stable and static market place‚ where there is little change in either products or demand year on year‚ whereas the other business operates in a very dynamic‚ rapidly changing‚ innovative environment. If my findings
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industries with West African Mills Company as a case study. 1.1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY A frequent asked question in formulating the corporate plan is “where do we see ourselves in ten years time”? To answer this successfully the firm must consider * What it wants to achieve (objectives) * How it intends to get there (its strategies) * What resources will be required (its operating plans) * How well it is doing in comparisons to the plan (control). (Source: ACCA Study Text-Performance
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CHAPTER I 1.1 INTRODUCTION Budget and budgetary control practices are undeniably indispensable as organizations routinely go about their business activities and operations. These organizations are constantly on the alert on how actual levels of performance agree with planned or budgeted performance. A budget expresses a plan in monetary terms. It is prepared and approved prior to a particular budgeted period and explicitly may show the income‚ expenditure and the capital to be employed by organizations
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Assignment 1 – Manufacturing company Johnson & Johnson Johnson & Johnson is an American multinational company that was founded in Brunswick‚ New Jersey in 1886 by American entrepreneurs Robert Wood Johnson and Edward Mead Johnson. It manufactures pharmaceuticals‚ medical devices and consumer products. Johnson and Johnson and its subsidiaries have operations in over 60 countries and sell their products in over 175 countries. They are one of the world’s largest manufacturer of health care
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IILUSTRATIONS - BUDGETES IILUSTRATION 1: PYE Ltd produces and markets a very popular product called P. The company is interested in presenting its budget for the second quarter of the year. The following information is made available for this purpose. 1. Its expects to sell 50‚000 bags of during the second quarter at a selling price of Rs 9 per kg 2. Each bag of P Requires 2.5 kgs of raw material Q and 7.5 kgs of raw material R. 3. Q costs Rs 1.20 per kg‚ R costs 20 paisa per kg
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FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT DEVELOPMENT Management Reporting Budgetary Control NO 213 BUDGETARY CONTROL AND VARIANCE ANALYSIS £ £££ ££££££ 1 333 35753 FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT DEVELOPMENT ONE OF A SERIES OF GUIDES FOR FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT DEVELOPMENT FROM www.FinancialManagementDevelopment.com This is one of a series of documents produced by David A Palmer as a guide for managers on specific financial topics to assist informed discussion. Readers should take appropriate advice before acting
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