managers duty to take appropriate action when accounting reports indicate

Which of the following is not the key purpose of budget:     Planning     Controlling and Administering     Reporting and evaluating     Maximizing the profit

Responsibility accounting means that a manager should be held responsible for those items in the budget which He absorbed as a result of allocation He can actually control to a significant extent His unit incurred as a committed cost All of the above Group of answer choices 1 2 3 4

. It is an important use of managerial accounting   a. determine direct cost by adding direct materials  b. understand customer orientation c. recast budgeted statements according to a situation d. change variables of risk internally and externally

Management Accounting Question (Qualitative Short Answer) a. Why is the sales forecast the starting point in budgeting? b. What is a perpetual budget? c. Which is a better basis for evaluating actual results: budgeted performance or past performance? Why? d. The materials price variance can be computed at what two different points in time? Which point is better and why? e. What effect, if any, would you expect purchasing poor-quality materials to have on direct labor variances? f. Distinguish between ideal and practical standards. g. Costs associated with the quality of conformance can be broken down into four broad groups. What are these four groups and how do they differ? h. What is likely the most effective way to reduce a company's total quality costs? i. What are the three main uses of quality cost reports?

Which of the following is not a characteristic of an effective responsibility accounting system? a) Reports that set goals for long-term strategic performance b) Reports that show revenue and/or expense items under a manager's control c) Reports that show budgeted and actual amounts of controllable revenue and expense items d) Reports that highlight areas that need corrective action