PUBLIC BUDGETING PPA 603 Government Budgeting The goal of this paper is to briefly discuss public finance and its philosophy. Public finance plays a major role in our lives. It is mainly focusing on the establishment of rights and responsibilities with maintaining balance between them for accomplishing practical tasks. Because public finance relates to government activities the paper will also contrast governmental accounting with nongovernmental accounting. The main point for the governments
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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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(Accounting‚ Organizations and Society 27 (2002) 303–345 Monetary incentives frequently are suggested as a method for motivating and improving the performance of persons who use and are affected by accounting information) Rewards that an individual receives are very much a part of the understanding of motivation. Research has suggested that rewards now cause job motivation and satisfaction‚ which leads to performance. It showed that though there was no significant difference in motivational
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Managerial Accounting and Control Decision Making: Relevant Costs and Benefits Case 14-62 Submited to: Prof. Virgilio c. Avila Submitted by: Roy Kondoy Shella Faye Background of the Study Sportway Corporation Sportway is a wholesale distributor supplying a wide range of moderately priced sports equipment to large chain stores Products: 60% purchased‚ 40% manufactured The company has a Plastics Department that is currently manufacturing molded fishing tackle boxes Sportway
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Chapter 6 Cost-Volume-Profit Relationships Solutions to Questions 6-1 The contribution margin (CM) ratio is the ratio of the total contribution margin to total sales revenue. It can be used in a variety of ways. For example‚ the change in total contribution margin from a given change in total sales revenue can be estimated by multiplying the change in total sales revenue by the CM ratio. If fixed costs do not change‚ then a dollar increase in contribution margin will result in a dollar
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Chapter 7 Budgeting and Cost Estimation Copyright 2009 John Wiley & Sons‚ Inc. Low Bids If you are bidding on a project‚ do you want your bid to be as low as possible and still make a profit? Accept Low Bid If you are accepting bids on a project‚ do you want to accept the lowest bid? Budgeting A plan for allocating scarce resources to the various endeavors of an organization A budget implies constraints Thus‚ it implies that managers will not get everything they
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Blue Nile Case 1. Blue Nile’s Strategy for success in the marketplace is to increase Blue Nile recognition and create more customer traffic. They want to build a brand loyalty among their customers to encourage repeat purchases. Blue Nile has both online and offline advertising. They offer a wide range of high quality diamonds to appeal to more buyers. Also to keep their pricing competitive. a. I would think that Blue Nile relies on operation excellence to keep customers coming back. They continue
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CHAPTER 5 PRODUCT AND SERVICE COSTING: A PROCESS SYSTEMS APPROACH LEARNING OBJECTIVES AFTER STUDYING THIS CHAPTER‚ YOU SHOULD BE ABLE TO: 1. Describe the basic characteristics of process costing‚ including cost flows‚ journal entries‚ and the cost of production report. 2. Describe process costing for settings without work-in-process inventories. 3. Define equivalent units‚ and explain their role in process costing. 4. Prepare a departmental production report using the FIFO method
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Chakraborty‚ K. (2008). Working Capital and Profitability: An Empirical Analysis of Their. The Icfai Journal of Management Research . Deloof‚ M. (2003). Does Working Capital Management Affects Profitability of Belgian. Journal of Business Finance & Accounting‚ ‚ 573 - 587. Eljelly‚ A. (2004). liquidity profitabiltytradeoff. international journal of commerce and management: an emperical investigation in emerging markets ‚ 48-61. Ghosh‚ S.‚ & SG‚ M. (2004). Working Capital Management Efficiency: A
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Of Financial and Managerial Accounting Managers According to Horngren‚ Sundem and Stratton in “Introduction to Management Accounting”‚ “Good management is a result of good information‚” (p.3). Collecting and compiling information about a company are the primary responsibilities of both financial and managerial accounting managers. Management accounting produces information for the managers in a company to help fulfill organizational objectives. “Financial accounting produces reports for
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