Cost Accounting: A Managerial Emphasis, 6e
Chapter 6 – Master Budget and Responsibility Accounting
6) The objective of activity-based budgeting is
A) to allow multiple activities to be used as cost drivers rather than just one item such as direct labour
hours.
B) to compute the cost of performing activities.
C) to refine the budgeting process by assigning indirect costs into activity cost pools.
D) to classify costs by functional area and assign them to related activities.
E) to classify costs as to whether they are value added or non-value added.
7) Activity-based budgeting is a strategy
A) used to determine production targets.
B) that requires budgeting each functional organizational unit.
C) that requires determining the budgetary slack for the activity being measured.
D) that does not require an understanding of value added activities.
E) that focuses on the cost of activities necessary to produce and sell products and services.
8) Stark Company is developing its budgets for 2013 and for the first time will use the Kaizen approach.
The initial 2013 income statement, based on static data from 2012 is as follows:
Sales (300,000 units) $450,000
Less: cost of goods sold 300,000
Gross margin $150,000
Operating expenses (includes
$40,000 of amortization) 120,000
Net income $30,000
Selling prices for 2013 are expected to increase by 6 percent, and sales volume in units will decrease by 10
percent. The cost of goods sold as estimated by the Kaizen approach will decline by 10 percent per unit.
Other than amortization, all other operating costs are expected to decline by 5 percent.
Required:
Prepare a Kaizen-based budgeted income statement for 2013.