INTRODUCTION: The budget preparation phase starts with the Development Budget Coordination Committee (DBCC). It is headed by the DBM Secretary and its members are the Secretary of Finance, the NEDA Director-General, and the Bangko Sentral Governor, with the Office of the President for general oversight. The NEDA provides the over-all macro-economic assumptions with which budgetary levels are to be determined. They involve the projected Gross National Product (GNP) real growth rates, inflation
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ASSESSMENT 1: STRUCTURED ACTIVITES Activity 1 Objective To provide you with an opportunity to identify and interpret the range of financial information and reports required for the organization to monitor business performance. Activity Answer the following questions, giving as much detail/explanation as you can to support your answer: (a.) What reports are used at your company to monitor business performance? At the restaurant where I work at, a few different types of reports are used
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FLEXIBLE BUDGETING Definition:--A flexible budget is a budget that is a function of one or more levels of activity. Thus, the budget depends on one or more measures of activity volume rather than being fixed in amount. Purpose:--The purpose of a flexible budget is to develop an estimate or estimates of cost for one or more levels of activity. Activity levels are typically measured in terms of activity inputs, levels, or outputs. Such a budget is flexible in the sense that it depends upon
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• Define the difference between forecasting and budgeting. What is the difference between an operating budget and a cash budget? The first that we need to understand is the definition of both forecasting and budgeting. Forecasting explains that it is “a planning tool that helps management in its attempts to cope with the uncertainty of the future, relying mainly on data from the past and present and analysis of trends. Forecasting starts with certain assumptions based on the management’s experience
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CHAPTER 6 MASTER BUDGET AND RESPONSIBILITY ACCOUNTING 6-1 a. b. c. d. The budgeting cycle includes the following elements: Planning the performance of the company as a whole as well as planning the performance of its subunits. Management agrees on what is expected. Providing a frame of reference, a set of specific expectations against which actual results can be compared. Investigating variations from plans. If necessary, corrective action follows investigation. Planning again, in light of feedback
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assignment I’ll be analysing the reasons why costs in a business need to be controlled by budgets. The company I’ll be talking about is ‘Premium Soft Drinks’. If they continue to not control their budgets then their profits will be largely affected; showing that budgeting is a method to control cost because it gives businesses an estimate of what their revenue as well as cost should be. Businesses must to budget + control what they’re spending so they can know what’s been spent and what’s been received
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Chapter 10 Strategy and the Master Budget Cases 10-1 Emerson Electric Company © Joseph San Miguel, reprinted with permission. 10-2 LetsGo Travel Trailers (Source: “LetsGo Travel Trailers: A Case for Incorporating the New Model of the Organization into the Teaching of Budgeting,” by Sally Wright, Cases from Management Accounting Practice, Vol. 14, Montvale, NJ: Institute of Management Accountants, 1998). Note that part 2 of this case requires the use of Excel. 10-3 Building
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, A Business Plan ACC/220 Abstract I am basing this business plan off of mine and a friends hobby. We have had a hobby of making kids clothes and accessories over the past year that our husbands have been deployed. Not only have we talked about designs for the kids clothing and hair accessories, but we have dug a little deeper into business licenses, taxation, profit, and expenses. I am hoping that this business plan I am writing for my final assignment will actually be put to use and
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Addis Ababa Table of Contents Title Page Unit One: Overview of Budgeting and Control .............................................................................. 2 1.1. The Basic Concepts of Budget and Budgeting ................................................................ 2 1.2. Definition of Budget ........................................................................................................ 3 1.3. Budgeting and Forecasting ....................................................
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