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This research paper is a brief discussion of budget management analysis. Budgeting is the key to financial management, and is the key to translates an organization goals or plan into money. Budgeting is a rough estimate of how much a company will need to get their work done, and provides the basis for evaluating performance, a source of motivation, coordinating business activities, a tool for management communication and instructions to employees. Without a budget an organization would be like a driver, driving blinded without instructions or any sense of direction, that’s how important a budget is to every organization and individual likewise (Clark, 2005).

When discussing the overdraft with the bank manager, John should mention that the new sewing equipment he purchased using the overdraft is a great investment for the business as it will improve the efficiency of the manufacturing process, increase production capacity and in return make the business

She can use Schedule C that is part of the Form 1040 in joint filing. Separate can also mean LLC which does report separately. Tax on the income will be part of their joint return, whether using a Schedule C or LLC.

SFAS No. 87 “Employers’ Accounting for Pensions” maintains that pension information should be prepared on the accrual basis and retained three fundamental aspects of past pension accounting: 1. delaying recognition of certain events, 2. Reporting net cost, and 3. offsetting assets and liabilities” (Schroeder, Clark, & Cathey, "Pensions and Other Postretirement Benefits," 2011). “The components of pension costs reflect different aspects of the benefits earned by employees and the method of financing those benefits by the employer. The following are required to be included in the net pension cost recognized by the employer sponsoring a defined benefits pension plan: 1. Service cost, 2. Interest cost, 3. Return on plan assets, 4. Amortization of unrecognized prior service cost, 5. Amortization of gains and losses, 6. Amortization of the unrecognized net obligation or unrecognized net asset at the date of the initial application of SFAS No. 87” (Schroeder, Clark, & Cathey, "Pensions and Other Postretirement Benefits," 2011).

Guillermo Furniture, a company that manufactures midgrade and high-end sofas, has just hired you as an accountant. The owner, Guillermo Navallez, has assigned you the tasks of determining which decisions provide the greatest returns.

7. A company pays $600,000 for 30% of the common stock of X, Inc. In the first year, X,

Whenever there is a question about what assignments are due, please remember this syllabus is considered the ruling document.

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Required: Prepare the budgets shown below using Microsoft Excel. Be sure to use links and formulas as much as possible. Do not prepare the budgets by hand and then merely input the numbers into Excel. Make sure to adjust the width of your columns so your numbers are readable rather than seeing a row of the ##### symbols. You should check print preview. You may place more than one budget on a page, but each budget should be contained on one page rather than continuing at the top of another page. Bring a printout of your budgets to class. While you will need information from months that are not a part of the third quarter, your budgets should NOT show the information from months that are not included

The budgeted income statement, cash flows, and balance sheet follow in order. The income budget relies on the revenue and expense forecast from the operating budget, while the budget cash flows are planned for financial and investment activities. A final component of the budget process, the projected balance statement, can be used to tie in all the budgeting dependencies. Once a budget has been prepared, evaluation can be expected before approval. Budgetary components may require several iterations before finalizing the organizational budget.

a-Operating Budget. “According to Chris B.(n.d.), this is a combination of known expenses, expected future costs, and forecasted income over the course of a year”. This budget type is often based on historical performance drawn from an income statement and cash flow statements, reason why it focused on the collection of income and projected cost of items. In addition to financial history micro factors, macro factors are also important in determining budget

Most entities and organization create budgets as a guide for controlling its spending, prediction of profit, and it expenditure as they progress toward a set goal. Budget involves pulling resources together to achieve a specific goal. According to Gapenski (2006), budgeting is an offshoot in a planning process. A basic managerial accounting tool use in holding planning and control functions together is referred to as set of budgets (p. 255). One major setback manager or budget developer encounter is trying to design a future, a process that cannot be created with the precision just right. This article highlights some financial management

For this business we would like to have an $18,500 ACCION loan. The loan amount will be in the long-term liability of the start-up summary. The owners’ investment of $6,200 will also be included along with a short term line of credit of $4,000 for inventory renewal.

The main problem of the company is that it couldn’t liquidate a seasonal working capital loan for the requisite 30 days each year. It reflects the company doesn’t have sufficient cash and they need more loan but the bank is reluctant to give any unless the company can give a reliable financial plan to show they can pay off their loan by the end of 2012. So, Mr Malik came up with a financial forecast for the month to month operation to gain the bank’s trust. Sadly, the forecast portrays it cannot afford to pay off its debt by end of 2012 and would owe a balance of IND 3,858.00. This