Chapter 8: Budgeting for Planning and Control
192. Realistic budgets reflect
a. actual levels of activity, full capacity usage, efficiencies, and general economic trends.
b. actual levels of activity, seasonal variations, efficiencies, and general economic trends.
c. ideal levels of activity, full capacity usage, efficiencies, and general economic trends.
d. ideal levels of activity, full capacity usage, and efficiencies.
193. Controllable costs are those that a manager
a. has no authority over.
b. cannot avoid.
c. does not participate in authorizing.
d. can influence through decision making.
194. Define budgeting and control. How are budgets used in planning? How are budgets used to control? What are
some of the reasons for budgeting?
195. This problem can be broken into components…
a. Given the following information, prepare a quarterly sales budget and production budget, in units:
Last year sales = 500,000 units. The organization is planning a 10 percent increase in sales for the year 2012. The
company is a retail organization that sees higher sales due to the holidays in the 4th quarter. 40 percent of the
sales occur in the 4th quarter and the remaining units are sold equally over the other three quarters.
The beginning inventory for the year amounts to 20,000 units. The estimated sales for the first quarter of 2013
amount to 115,000 units. The company requires an ending inventory of 20 percent of the next quarters’ sales.