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Managing Finance and Budgets. Seminar 10. Questions 1. Describe the different forms of budgeting Describe briefly the main steps in the budgetary control process. Describe the relationship between the budgeted profit, the variances (favourable and adverse) and the actual profit.
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Managing Finance and Budgets Seminar 10
Questions 1 • Describe the different forms of budgeting • Describe briefly the main steps in the budgetary control process. • Describe the relationship between the budgeted profit, the variances (favourable and adverse) and the actual profit. • Describe the ‘learning curve’ as it applies to the time taken for a company to produce one level of output as the level of output grows.
Incremental Budgets Zero-Base Budgets Activity-Based Budgets Standard Costs Different Forms of Budgeting
Prepare budgets Perform and collect information on actual performance Respond to variances between planned and actual performance and exercise control The budgetary control process
Budgeted profit plus All favourable variances minus All adverse variances equals Actual profit Relationship between the budgeted and actual profit
The learning curve effect Time taken per unit of output Cumulative units of output