Friday, 12 July 2019

A continuous or perpetual budget is one which covers a 12-month period but which is constantly adding a new month on the end as the current month is completed.


The usual starting point in budgeting is to make a forecast of net income.
           
            Ans:  False     AACSB:  Reflective Thinking     AICPA BB:  Critical Thinking     AICPA FN:  Reporting     LO:  1,9     Level:  Easy

        2. A budget committee helps provide consistency in the budgeting process because it prepares all of the budgets for the various segments of the organization.
           
            Ans:  False     AACSB:  Reflective Thinking     AICPA BB:  Critical Thinking     AICPA FN:  Reporting     LO:  1     Level:  Easy

        3. A continuous or perpetual budget is one which covers a 12-month period but which is constantly adding a new month on the end as the current month is completed.
           
            Ans:  True     AACSB:  Reflective Thinking     AICPA BB:  Critical Thinking     AICPA FN:  Reporting     LO:  1     Level:  Easy

        4. Control involves developing objectives and preparing the various budgets to achieve those objectives.
           
            Ans:  False     AACSB:  Reflective Thinking     AICPA BB:  Critical Thinking     AICPA FN:  Reporting     LO:  1     Level:  Easy

        5. A self-imposed budget is one prepared by top management and passed downward through an organization.
           
            Ans:  False     AACSB:  Reflective Thinking     AICPA BB:  Critical Thinking     AICPA FN:  Reporting     LO:  1     Level:  Easy

        6. When using the self-imposed budget approach, it is generally best for top management to accept all budget estimates without question in order to minimize adverse behavioral responses from employees.
           
            Ans:  False     AACSB:  Reflective Thinking     AICPA BB:  Resource Management, Critical Thinking     AICPA FN:  Reporting     LO:  1     Level:  Easy


        7. Cash collections in a schedule of cash collections typically consist of collections on sales made to customers in prior periods plus collections on sales made in the current budget period.
           
            Ans:  True     AACSB:  Reflective Thinking     AICPA BB:  Critical Thinking     AICPA FN:  Reporting     LO:  2     Level:  Easy

        8. In a production budget, if the number of units in finished goods inventory at the end of the period is less than the number of units in finished goods inventory at the beginning of the period, then the expected number of units sold is greater than the number of units to be produced during the period.
           
            Ans:  True     AACSB:  Reflective Thinking     AICPA BB:  Critical Thinking     AICPA FN:  Reporting     LO:  3     Level:  Medium

        9. In a merchandising company, the required merchandise purchases for a period are determined by subtracting the units in beginning inventory from the sum of the units to be sold during the period and the desired ending inventory.
           
            Ans:  True     AACSB:  Reflective Thinking     AICPA BB:  Critical Thinking     AICPA FN:  Reporting     LO:  3     Level:  Easy

      10. The direct materials to be purchased for a period can be obtained by subtracting the desired ending inventory of direct materials from the total direct materials needed for the period.
           
            Ans:  False     AACSB:  Reflective Thinking     AICPA BB:  Critical Thinking     AICPA FN:  Reporting     LO:  4     Level:  Medium

      11. The direct labor budget begins with sales in units from the sales budget.
           
            Ans:  False     AACSB:  Reflective Thinking     AICPA BB:  Critical Thinking     AICPA FN:  Reporting     LO:  5     Level:  Easy

      12. The selling and administrative expense budget lists all costs of production other than direct materials and direct labor.
           
            Ans:  False     AACSB:  Reflective Thinking     AICPA BB:  Critical Thinking     AICPA FN:  Reporting     LO:  6,7     Level:  Easy


      13. In the manufacturing overhead budget, the non-cash charges (such as depreciation) are deducted from the total budgeted manufacturing overhead to determine the expected cash disbursements for manufacturing overhead.
           
            Ans:  True     AACSB:  Reflective Thinking     AICPA BB:  Critical Thinking     AICPA FN:  Reporting     LO:  6     Level:  Easy

      14. The selling and administrative expense budget lists the budgeted expenses for areas other than manufacturing.
          
            Ans:  True     AACSB:  Reflective Thinking     AICPA BB:  Critical Thinking     AICPA FN:  Reporting     LO:  7     Level:  Easy

      15. The disbursements section of a cash budget consists of all cash payments for the period except cash payments for dividends.
           
            Ans:  False     AACSB:  Reflective Thinking     AICPA BB:  Critical Thinking     AICPA FN:  Reporting     LO:  8     Level:  Medium

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