Principles of Managerial Accounting · free preview
How and Why Managers Use Budgets
A budget is a quantitative plan that coordinates an organization's activities, communicates priorities, and sets benchmarks for control, built through a participative process from sales forecast to master budget.
1. What a budget is
What a budget is
2. Why organizations budget
Why organizations budget
3. The master budget architecture
The master budget architecture
4. Participative budgeting
Participative budgeting
5. Budget definition
What is a budget? Use the figures from the worked example in this lesson and state the result in the requested units.
6. Coordination purpose
How does budgeting coordinate an organization?
7. Budget sequence start
Which element begins the master budget sequence?
8. Participative risk
What is the principal risk of participative budgeting?
9. Master budget components
The master budget divides into operating budgets and ____ budgets. One word.
10. Slack name
Padding budget targets to make performance easier is called budgetary ____. One word.
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