Can incremental budgeting be used to budget for rent? What about for advertising expenditure?
What might the base and incremental packages for a personnel department cover?
Fill in the gaps.
A flexible budget is a budget which, by recognising ………………., is designed to ………………. as the level of activity changes.
What are the three steps of ZBB?
【论述题】
Use activity based budgeting to assess whether the resources currently owned or employed by the company are sufficient to meet typical monthly output. Comment on any significant surplus/shortfall in resource.
Briefly outline THREE advantages that may be claimed for the use of activity based budgeting rather than a traditional incremental budgeting system.
The management accountant of a business has identified the following information:
Activity level 800 units 1,200 units
Total cost $16,400 $23,600
The fixed costs of the business step up by 40% at 900 units.
What is the fixed cost at 1,100 units?
If a system of a ABB is in use, how might the cost of scheduling production be flexed?
A system of zero based budgeting forces employees to remove wasteful expenditure.
Use of zero based budgeting implies flexing budgets on the basis of differences between budgeted and actual cost-driving activities.