This document contains 10 multiple choice questions related to accounting budgets and variances. The questions cover topics like operating vs financial budgets, standard costing, overhead cost variances, and inventory and sales budgeting.

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(TCO 2) Operating budgets and financial budgets
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(TCO 2) To gain the benefits of budgeting, ________ must understand
and support the budget.
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2. (TCO 2) Which budget is not necessary to prepare the budgeted balance
sheet?
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(TCO 2) A feature of a standard-costing system is that the costs of every
product or service planned to be worked on during the period can be
computed at the start of that period. This feature of standard costing
makes it possible to
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(TCO 2) An unfavorable variance indicates that
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(TCO 2) Which of the following statements is true about overhead cost
variance analysis using activity-based costing?
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(TCO 2) Overhead costs have been increasing due to all of the following
except
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(TCO 2) Katie Enterprises reports the year-end information from 20X8 as
follows: Sales (70,000 units) $560,000; Cost of goods sold 210,000;
Gross margin 350,000; Operating expenses 200,000; Operating income
$150,000. Katie is developing the 20X9 budget. In 20X9, the company
would like to increase selling prices by 4%, and as a result expects a
decrease in sales volume of 10%. All other operating expenses are
expected to remain constant. Assume that COGS is a variable cost and
that operating expenses are a fixed cost. What is budgeted sales for
20X9?
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3. (TCO 2) Hester Company budgets on an annual basis for its fiscal year.
The following beginning and ending inventory levels (in units) are
planned for the fiscal year of July 1, 2008, through June 30, 2009.
July 1, 2008 June 30, 2009
Raw material (note) 40,000 10,000
Work in process 8,000 8,000
Finished goods 30,000 5,000
(note) Three units of raw material are needed to produce each unit of
finished product.
If Hester Company plans to sell 600,000 units during the 2008-2009
fiscal year, the number of units it would have to manufacture during
the year would be
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(TCO 2) Information pertaining to Brenton Corporation's sales revenue
is presented in the following table:
February March April
Cash Sales $160,000 $150,000 $120,000
Credit Sales 300,000 400,000 280,000
Total Sales $460,000 $550,000 $400,000
Management estimates that 5% of credit sales are not collectible. Of
the credit sales that are collectible, 60% are collected in the month of
sale and the remainder in the month following the sale. Cost of
purchases of inventory each month are 70% of the next month's
projected total sales. ll purchases of inventory are on account; 25% are
paid in the month of purchase, and the remainder is paid in the month
following the purchase.
Brenton's budgeted total cash payments in March for inventory
purchases are