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Budgeting and Forecasting

Budgeting and forecasting are business processes essential to a company’s operations. Budgeting involves planning for revenues and expenses. Forecasting is a method of predicting trends based on historical and current events.

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Describe the stockholders liability to creditors of a corporation?

A corporation's creditors usually do not be past the assets of the corporation to satisfy their claims. The most a stockholder can lose financially is the amount he or she invested.

Is inventory a fix cost or variable cost?

inventory (i.e. stock) is an asset, not a cost. It is considered a current asset, however may be illiquid depending on the product

Whole salers are firms that sell driectly to the consumer?

Retailers are firms that sell directly to the consumer, wholesalers are the firms that supply the retailers goods to sale to the consumers.

In budgeting what is on the list of direct and list of indirect expenses?

Indirect costs are costs that are not directly accountable to a cost object (such as a particular function or product). Indirect costs may be either fixed or variable. Indirect costs include taxes, administration, personnel and security costs, and are also known as overhead.

Costs usually charged directly

  • Project staff
  • Consultants
  • Project supplies
  • Publications
  • Travel
  • Training

Costs usually allocated indirectly

  • Utilities
  • Rent
  • Audit and legal
  • Administrative staff
  • Equipment rental

Differentiate between fixed and variable overheads. which one of them is controllable and what is the effect of controlling overheads on contribution margin and finally on per unit cost?

A fixed overhead will remain the same regardless of production levels while a variable overhead will change in relation to production levels. Controlling Overheads will reduce per unit costs thereby increasing contribution margin.

Inventory carrying cost and cost of not having it?

Inventory carrying cost is that cost which is incurred by company to stock the inventory while cost for not having inventory means that cost which company has to bear due to non availability of inventory like loss of sales or good sales opportunity loss cost etc.

What information is needed in order to prepare a cash budget?

A cash budget begins with the starting cash balance to which cash inflows are added to get cash available.

What is the difference between overhead cost and fixed cost?

Fixed cost is a cost that does not typically vary on unit production. On the other hand overhead cost is the summation of all variable cost.

Who draws up the national budget?

the legislative budget board and the officer of budget planning

What is purchase system?

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What are opinions on Vernon Street Capital?

Vernon Street Capital is a company that provides individuals the ability to get into the lending industry. They provide a complete training program in addition to a lending platform to submit loans. They also have a variety of additional financial products to offer their customers who may be having difficulty qualifying for a traditional loan.

What is non Discretionary cost?

A non-discretionary cost is one that is not completely controllable by you. Typically you may be able to exert a little influence on such costs by understanding and manipulating consumption patterns but you are not able to unilaterally completely eliminate the cost from your cost-base.

A fixed cost that would be considered a direct cost is a cost accountant's salary when the cost objective is a unit of product?

a. A Store Manager's salary when the cost object is a unit of product

b. An Auditor's Salary when the cost object is the Audit Department

c. The Director's fees when the cost object is the Production Department

d. A Production supervisor's Salary when the cost object is the Stores dept

What is a budget report used for?

1.Budget helps to know the future results,

2.budgetary control technique helps to compare the estimated results with actual results.

3.budgeting focuses on standards or objectives.

4.budget helps subordinates to to compare their performance with budgetary standards and can do self appraisal.

5.through budgeting managers can allocate resources to departments according to their budgetary allocation.

6.budget help to improve coordination between various departments.

7.budgetary control helps to use the principle of management by exception by giving more attention to departments where actual operations and target deviate from budgetary standards.