Managerial Accounting
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ISBN: 9780077826482
Author: Stacey M Whitecotton Associate Professor, Robert Libby, Fred Phillips Associate Professor
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Chapter 8, Problem 1E
To determine
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The production budget calculates the number of units that needsto be produced and it is calculated from the sales
Sales budget is the budget prepared by management to estimate the sales for a financial year.
Incentives for person S.
To determine
Concept introduction:
The production budget calculates the number of units and it is calculated from the sales forecast and the amount of finished goods inventory.
Sales budget is the budget prepared by the management to estimate the future sales for a future financial year.
The impact of inaccurate production on other employees.
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Part 2. David works for Woolgarments Company as a production manager. He often participates in the annual budgeting process of the company. David is requested by the Chief Executive Officer Linda to submit his department’s budgeted production for the following year. Linda reviews and typically adds 10 percent to the production budget provided by David. The new amount becomes David’s target production level for the following year. David can receive a cash bonus if his department exceeds the projected production level. Required: a. Explain any incentive that David might have to be dishonest with Linda about the production level he thinks the department can achieve.Click or tap here to enter text.b. Explain the impact David’s inaccurate production estimates could have on other company departments or employees. Click or tap here to enter text.c. Suggest what should be done to prevent a manager from providing inaccurate budgets which can easily achieved.
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Mega Empire Bhd. is in the inital stages of preparing the annual budget for next year. Danial, has recently joined the company as management accountant and is interested to learn as much as possible about the company’s budgeting process. After the recent meeting with the Sales Manager who is Zack and Aaron as the Production Manager, Danial initiated the following conversation
Danial: Since I am new around here and I am going to be involved with the preparation of the annual budget. I’d be interested to learn how the two of you estimate sales and production numbers.
Zack: We start out very methodically by looking at recent history, discussing what we know about current accounts, potential customers, and the general state of consumer spending. Then we add the usual dose of intuition to come up with the best forecast we can.
Aaron: I usually take the sales projections as a basis for my projections. Of course we have to make estimate of what this year’s…
David works for Wool garments company as a production manager. He often participates in the annual budgeting process of the company. David is requested by the Chief Executive Officer Linda to submit his department’s budgeted production for the following year. Linda reviews and typically adds 10 percent to the production budget provide by David. The new amount becomes David’s target production level for the following year. David can receive a cash bonus if his department exceeds the projected production level.
2. Explain the impact David’s inaccurate production estimates could have on other company departments or employees.
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Managerial Accounting
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