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- 2. To accompany Cost Accounting 12e, by Horngren/Datar/Foster. Copyright © 2006 by Pearson Education. All rights reserved. 6-2
Budget Defined
The quantitative expression of a proposed
plan of action by management for a specified
period, and
An aid to coordinating what needs to be done
to implement that plan
May include both financial and nonfinancial
data
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The Ongoing Budget Process:
1. Managers and accountants plan the
performance of the company, taking into
account past performance and anticipated
future changes
2. Senior managers distribute a set of goals
against which actual results will be
compared
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The Ongoing Budget Process:
3. Accountants help managers investigate
deviations from budget. Corrective action
occurs at this point
4. Managers and accountants assess market
feedback, changed conditions, and their
own experiences as plans are laid for the
next budget period
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Advantages of Budgets
Provides a framework for judging
performance
Motivates managers and other employees
Promotes coordination and communication
among subunits within the company
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Components of Master Budgets
Operating Budget – building blocks leading to
the creation of the Budgeted Income
Statement
Financial Budget – building blocks based on
the Operating Budget that lead to the creation
of the Budgeted Balance Sheet and the
Budgeted Statement of Cash Flows
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Basic Operating Budget Steps
1. Prepare the Revenues Budget
2. Prepare the Production Budget (in Units)
3. Prepare the Direct Materials Usage Budget
and Direct Materials Purchases Budget
4. Prepare the Direct Manufacturing Labor
Budget
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Basic Operating Budget Steps
5. Prepare the Manufacturing Overhead Costs
Budget
6. Prepare the Ending Inventories Budget
7. Prepare the Cost of Goods Sold Budget
8. Prepare the Operating Expense (Period
Cost) Budget
9. Prepare the Budgeted Income Statement
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Basic Financial Budget Steps
Based on the Operating Budgets:
1. Prepare the Capital Expenditures Budget
2. Prepare the Cash Budget
3. Prepare the Budgeted Balance Sheet
4. Prepare the Budgeted Statement of Cash
Flows
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Budgeting Overview Flowchart
Revenues
Budget
Production
Budget
Direct
Manufacturing
Labor Costs
Budget
Ending
Inventory
Budget
Manufacturing
Overhead
Costs Budget
Direct
Materials
Costs Budget
Cost of Goods
Sold Budget
Operating
Expense
Budget
Budgeted
Income
Statement
Capital
Expenditures
Budget
Cash Budget
Budgeted
Balance Sheet
Budgeted
Statement of
Cash Flows
Operating Budget Financial Budget
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Other Budgeting Issues
Financial-planning software may be employed to
conduct sensitivity (“what-if”) analysis to assist in
the budgetary process
Kaizen Budgeting – incorporating continuous
improvement factors in the budgeting process
Activity-Based Budgeting – incorporating Activity-
Based Costing in the budgetary process
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Budgeting and the Organization:
Responsibility Accounting
Responsibility Center – a part, segment, or
subunit of an organization whose manager is
accountable for a specified set of activities
Responsibility Accounting – a system that
measures the plans, budgets, actions, and
actual results of each Responsibility Center
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Types of Responsibility Centers
1. Cost – accountable for costs only
2. Revenue – accountable for revenues only
3. Profit – accountable for revenues and costs
4. Investment – accountable for investments,
revenues, and costs
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Budgets and Feedback
Budgets offer feedback in the form of
variances: actual results deviate from
budgeted targets
Variances provide managers with
Early warning of problems
A basis for performance evaluation
A basis for strategy evaluation
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Controllability
Controllability is the degree of influence that a
manager has over costs, revenues, or related
items for which he is being held responsible
Responsibility Accounting focuses on
information sharing, not in laying blame on a
particular manager
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Budgeting and Human Behavior
The budgeting process may be abused both
by superiors and subordinates, leading to
negative outcomes
Superiors may dominate the budget process
or hold subordinates accountable for events
they have no control over
Subordinates may build “budgetary slack” into
their budgets
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Budgetary Slack
The practice of underestimating budgeted
revenues, or overestimating budgeted
expenses, in an effort to make the resulting
budgeted goals (profits) more easily
attainable