1-Describe life-cycle budgeting and life-cycle costing and when companies should use these techniques.

Q: Why might managers find a flexible-budget analysis more informative than a static-budget analysis?

A: Static Budget: Static budget is a fixed budget prepared for a particular period of time without…

Q: reate an AIS diagram for Budget Profit Planning Process using the 6-level plannin

A: Budgeted Planning Process While preparing the budgetary planning process which needs the details of…

Q: Discuss why budgets are so important for all organizations. Describe some advantages and…

A: Budgets are an indispensable part of business organizations because they assist business…

Q: Explaining Costs That Change with Flexible Budget Activity When preparing a company's flexible…

A: Budgets: Budgets are prepared for the planning and controlling purposes. Budgets facilitate…

Q: Practice 3 : a)     Explain the importance of incentive systems for motivating performance. b)…

A: In order to achieve the goal of the company, the organization should provide compensation program…

Q: What is the difference in purpose between an economic-enterprise budget and the results of the…

A: The purpose of the economic-enterprise budget is to estimate sales, costs, and, finally, the…

Q: optimal costing system considerations of the firm

A: Optimal costing system is a cost accounting method used to calculate optimum costs with desired…

Q: Operating and financial budgets. Which of the following statements is correct regarding the drivers…

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Q: How would you recommend stabilizing the company's unit product cost?

A: Unit cost of a product is determined by dividing the total cost of the units produced by the total…

Q: The use of standard costs in pricing and budgeting is quite valuable  since decisions in the fields…

A: Standard cost is the cost which is predetermined and which is expected to be incurred during the…

Q: Discuss how the budgeting process in an organisation benefits a functioning standard costing system

A: The process of creating a budget is referred to as budgeting. This process involves budget planning…

Q: Explain how standard costs and flexible budgets can be used for short-term profit analysis—that…

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Q: Why should the opportunity costs of a farmer's labor, capital, and management be included on an…

A: Opportunity Cost is the cost foregone on the next best alternative, if a particular option is…

Q: 1.The relevant costing involves making decision to the following, except: Select one: a. overcome…

A: “Since you have asked multiple questions, we will solve the first question for you. If you want any…

Q: Compare two of the budget ratios. What are the differences? What are the similarities? Give one…

A: Budget includes various expenses and incomes. All expenses are classified as fixed cost expenses,…

Q: BUDGETED DIRECT LABOR FORMULA Please provide and show how to find the Budgeted Direct Labor for a…

A: Direct labor budget is shown in monthly or quarterly format.

Q: Required: a) Use activity-based costing to estimate the cost of preparing: i A wage and salary tax…

A: ABC (Activity based costing) framework was created to manage the drawbacks of customary costing…

Q: Discuss three assumptions of cost-volume-profit analysis.

A: As per our company guidelines we are allowed to do first question. Kindly post second question…

Q: 1. How does budgeting provide important information to managers and operating personnel?

A: Budget is like preparing plan for the future process and it includes how efficiently sources or…

Q: The implementation of budgeting in a world class manufacturing environment may be affected by the…

A: Principles of each strategy and their effects in budgeting as compared to traditional budgeting: (i)…

Q: Which of the following is true? a) The direct materials purchases budget is determined from the…

A: The budget is prepared by the management to estimate future revenue and expenditure. It is helpful…

Q: Which of the following is the format of the income statement that is MOST useful in decision-making?…

A: The contribution margin format of income statement classify the costs into fixed and variable. The…

Q: Why do successful companies tend to use the bottom-up approach to establish a master budget?

A: The bottom-up approach increases the efficiency and productivity of the employees as the budget is…

Q: a) Briefly discuss the similarities and differences between the terms 'overhead absorption rate' and…

A: “Since you have asked multiple question, we will solve the first question for you. If you…

Q: State the difference between Standard costing & Budgetary control. Give your analysis with 5 points…

A: Standard costing was used by the entity in making analysis of cost data by making comparison between…

Q: Describe how non output-based cost drivers can be incorporated into budgeting.

A: Budgeting: The budgeting is a process of preparing budgets and the evaluation of it to see whether…

Q: Discuss any three advantages of budgeting? The subject is Managerial Accounting.

A: Budgeting:-It is a process of creating a plan for how to spend money. This spending plan is called…

Q: How could cost-volume-profit analysis be used in budgeting? In making a decision about advertising?

A: Cost Volume Profit Analysis (CVP Analysis): This analysis is helpful in determining how any type of…

Q: Which one of the following technique is mostly used for financial analysis and ?interpretation (Lä…

A: The mostly used technique for financial analysis is Ratio Analysis , which means it is method used…

Q: Management uses Cost Volume Profit (CPV) analysis as a planning process to predict the future volume…

A: The use of CVP analysis is severely constrained by a number of underlying assumptions. Anyone…

Q: Indicate whether the item below is used as key performance indicators for the areas of (A)…

A: The cost variance is calculated by the difference between the actual cost and the budget cost. Cost…

Q: Recommend to management an AIS system diagram presenting the Budget Profit Planning Process using…

A: Budgeted Planning Process While preparing the budgetary planning process which needs the details of…

Q: . The use of standard costs in pricing and budgeting is quite valuable since decisions in the fields…

A: Standard costs are estimates of the actual costs in a company’s production process, because actual…

Q: a. Why is the sales forecast the starting point in budgeting?

A: Hey, since there are multiple questions posted, we will answer first question. If you want any…

Q: In which of the following company types would the manager combine cost of goods sold, inventory, and…

A: Manufacturing company prepared the separate budget for Purchases, Cost of good manufactured and cost…

Q: Contribution Margin, Cost-Volume-Profit Analysis and Break-Even Point (Overview) Fixed, Variable…

A: -Variable cost refers to an expenditure that varies in gross dollar value as the degree of…

Q: Explained how the use of an activity-based costing system could change the results of the budget if…

A: Activity based costing is the type of costing in which the costs are estimated according to the…

Utilization Management

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