- The basic idea underlying responsibility accounting is that each manager should be held responsible for the overall profit of the company to ensure that all managers are acting together.
False
- Self-imposed budgets prepared by lower-level managers should be scrutinized by higher levels of management.
True
- The budget method that maintains a constant twelve-month planning horizon by adding a new month on the end as the current month is completed is called:
a continuous budget.
- The manufacturing overhead budget is typically prepared before the production budget.
False
- The cash budget is typically prepared before the direct materials budget.
False
- The cash budget is usually prepared after the budgeted income statement.
False
- Planning involves gathering feedback to ensure that the plan is being properly executed or modified as circumstances change.
False
- One disadvantage of a self-imposed budget is that budget estimates prepared by front-line managers are often less accurate and reliable than estimates prepared by top managers.
False
- Which of the following represents the normal sequence in which the below budgets are prepared?
Sales Budget, Budgeted Income Statement, Budgeted Balance Sheet
- Which of the following is NOT an objective of the budgeting process?
To ensure that the company continues to grow.