Survey Of Accounting
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ISBN: 9781259631122
Author: Edmonds, Thomas P.
Publisher: Mcgraw-hill Education,
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Chapter 14, Problem 1E
Exercise 7-1A Budget responsibility
Teresa Flanagan, the accountant, is a perfectionist. No one can do the job as well as she can. Indeed, she has found budget information provided by the various departments to be worthless. She must change everything they give her. She has to admit that her estimates have not always been accurate, but she shudders to think of what would happen if she used the information supplied by the marketing and operating departments. No one seems to care about accuracy. Indeed, some of the marketing staff have even become insulting. When Ms. Flanagan confronted one of the salespeople with the fact that he was behind in meeting his budgeted sales
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Write a short report suggesting how the budgeting process could be improved.
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The chief financial officer (CFO) discussed your analysis and strategy with the executive team and feels that you are the perfect person to work on the corporate budget. Based on the current external environment, the organization has limited resources, and each department has been asked to reduce costs. Based on your experience, answer the following questions:
What type of costs should the departments reduce first and why?
How can the organization prevent budgetary slack in the budgeting process since the bonuses of managers are tied to the budget?
What are some potential ethical issues all organizations deal with in the budgeting process? What are some ways of dealing with these potential problems?
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The production manager at ABC Inc. is responsible for formulating the budget for his department. He will be evaluated on his ability to
control costs. After considerable thought, he arrives at his best estimate of costs, and then adds a further 10% to the projections.
Chances are he has Inflated the cost projections because
that is the way it has always been done.
O conservative accounting practise requires that he not under report expenses.
O by overestimating expenses, it will make it easier for him to come in under budget and receive a favourable evaluation.
Onone of the above.
Chapter 14 Solutions
Survey Of Accounting
Ch. 14 - Prob. 1QCh. 14 - Prob. 2QCh. 14 - 3.What are the three levels of planning? Explain...Ch. 14 - 4.What is the primary factor that distinguishes...Ch. 14 - 5.What is the advantage of using a perpetual...Ch. 14 - Prob. 6QCh. 14 - Prob. 7QCh. 14 - 8. Ken Shilov, manager of the marketing...Ch. 14 - Prob. 9QCh. 14 - 10.What is the normal starting point in developing...
Ch. 14 - 11. How does the level of inventory affect the...Ch. 14 - 12.What are the components of the cash budget?...Ch. 14 - 13.The primary reason for preparing a cash budget...Ch. 14 - 14.What information does the pro forma income...Ch. 14 - 15.How does the pro forma statement of cash flows...Ch. 14 - Exercise 7-1A Budget responsibility Teresa...Ch. 14 - Exercise 7-2A Preparing a sales budget Parliament...Ch. 14 - Prob. 3ECh. 14 - Exercise 7-4A Preparing sales budgets with...Ch. 14 - Exercise 7-5A Determining cash receipts from...Ch. 14 - Exercise 7-6A Using judgment in making a sales...Ch. 14 - Exercise 7-7A Preparing an inventory purchases...Ch. 14 - Exercise 7-8A Preparing a schedule of cash...Ch. 14 - Exercise 7-9A Determining the amount of expected...Ch. 14 - Exercise 7-10A Preparing inventory purchases...Ch. 14 - Exercise 7-11A Preparing a schedule of cash...Ch. 14 - Prob. 12ECh. 14 - Exercise 7-13A Preparing a cash budget The...Ch. 14 - Exercise 7-14A Determining amount to borrow and...Ch. 14 - Prob. 15ECh. 14 - Problem 7-16A Behavioral impact of budgeting...Ch. 14 - Prob. 17PCh. 14 - Problem 7-18A Preparing an inventory purchases...Ch. 14 - Prob. 19PCh. 14 - Problem 7-21A Preparing a cash budget Fayette...Ch. 14 - Prob. 21PCh. 14 - Problem 7-22A Preparing budgets with multiple...Ch. 14 - Problem 7-23A Preparing a master budget for retail...Ch. 14 - ATC 7-1 Business Applications Case Preparing and...Ch. 14 - ATC7-2 Group Assignment Master budget and pro...Ch. 14 - ATC 7-4 Writing Assignment Continuous budgeting...Ch. 14 - Ethical Dilemma Bad budget system or unethical...
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