Prayfa Sae-Tae - Chapter 33 Test Questions & Answer Key
Prayfa Sae-Tae - Chapter 33 Test Questions & Answer Key
Prayfa Sae-Tae - Chapter 33 Test Questions & Answer Key
Clearly explain in your own understanding the following items and give example/s to clarify your claims about
the topic. Do not “beat around the bush” but instead be specific (detailed) and go direct to the point.
2-3. Fill in the blank: Budgeting ______ for the future, and _______ problems and solutions
11-13. Name the stages in the control process. (Hint: there are 3 stages)
1. Budgeting is a financial plan that is agreed in advance which shows the planned outcome
business hopes to achieve and shows the money needed for spending and how budgeting
should be financed. It is not a forecast but a plan.
6. False
7. ZBB
8. Opportunity cost
9-10.
Advantages:
● Allocation of resources should be improved
● Questioning attitude occurs which helps reduce unnecessary costs and eliminates inefficiency
Disadvantages:
● Time-consuming - budgeting process includes collecting and analyzing detailed information
● Can affect motivation - threatens existing wat in which the business is run
● Managers may not be prepared to justify spending on certain costs → causing money to may not be allocated
11-13. Preparation of plans, comparison of plans with actual results, analysis of variances
14. The difference between the figure the business has budgeted for and the actual figure.
15. At the end of the budget period, when actual figures are shown.
17. Profit variance. Because it’s influenced by all other variances. A change in any other variances will affect
the profit because all variances are related to cost or revenue which both affects profit levels.
18-20.
● Setting budgets
● Motivation
● Manipulation
● Rigidity
● short-terminism