This document discusses budgeting and provides answers to questions about budgets. It defines budgets as quantitative expressions of plans that are used for planning and control. Budgets are compared to actual costs and revenues to provide feedback in the control process. All departmental budgets depend on the sales budget. Flexible budgets allow comparison of actual costs to planned costs at the actual activity level. The steps in activity-based budgeting determine necessary activities and resources based on output, differing from the traditional master budget approach.