Financial & Managerial Accounting
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ISBN: 9781285866307
Author: Carl Warren, James M. Reeve, Jonathan Duchac
Publisher: Cengage Learning
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Chapter 21, Problem 21.2CP
a.
To determine
Budgeting is a process to prepare the financial statement by the manager to estimate the organization’s future actions. It is also helpful to satisfy the everyday activities.
To explain: the budgeting methods that are being used under the new approach.
b.
To determine
To explain: the reason for these methods being superior to the former approach.
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Children's Hospital of the King's Daughters Health System in Norfolk, Virginia, introduced a new budgeting method that allowed the hospital's annual plan to be updated for changes in operating plans. For example, if the budget was based on 400 patient-days (number of patients × number of days in the hospital) and the actual count rose to 450 patient-days, the variable costs of staffing, lab work, and medication costs could be adjusted to reflect this change. The budget manager stated, “I work with hospital directors to turn data into meaningful information and effect change before the month ends.”
What budgeting method is being used under the new approach?
What budgeting method do you think was being used under the old method?
Casper Hospital bases its budgets on patient-visits. The hospital's static planning budget for May appears below:
The budgeted number of patient-visits
5,100
Budgeted variable costs:
Supplies (@ $2.70 per patient-visit)
$
13,770
Laundry (@ $3.00 per patient-visit)
15,300
Budgeted fixed costs:
Wages and salaries
16,830
Occupancy costs
16,890
Total expense
$
62,790
Required:
Prepare a flexible budget for 6,000 patient-visits per month.
Tennies Clinic uses client-visits as its measure of activity. During November, the clinic budgeted for 4,200 client-visits, but its actual level of activity was 4,190 client-visits. The clinic has provided the following data concerning the formulas used in its budgeting and its actual results for November:
Data used in budgeting:
Fixed element per month
Variable element per client-visit
Revenue
-
$
37.20
Personnel expenses
$
31,300
$
12.20
Medical supplies
2,100
7.60
Occupancy expenses
9,400
3.70
Administrative expenses
7,700
0.20
Total expenses
$
50,500
$
23.70
Actual results for November:
Revenue
$
156,078
Personnel expenses
$
82,376
Medical supplies
$
34,788
Occupancy expenses
$
24,405
Administrative expenses
$
8,291
The activity variance for personnel expenses in November would be closest to:
Chapter 21 Solutions
Financial & Managerial Accounting
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