Budget Madness | Variable/Contribution vs. Absorption Style of Income Statements | Balance your Scorecard | Should we process this product further? | Variance Analysis |
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What is a Master Budget
This is a formal comprehensive plan for the future of a company, expressed as a series of budgets
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What is Contribution or Variable
In this style, costs are seperated based upon their behaviour into fixed and variable cost categories
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What is 4... Can you name them all? BONUS of 1000 points
This number of perspectives are used to measure performance in a Balanced Scorecard
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What are Relevant Costs
Also known as opportunity costs, these costs differ among alternatives
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What are Ideal Standards
This can only be achieved under perfect conditions and are often very frustrating for employees
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What is a Sales budget
This is used to estimate how much product will be purchased by customers
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What is Absorption
In this style, all costs are lumped together
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What are Prevention, Appraisal, Internal and External
Quality costs include these four general categories
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What are Irrelevant Costs
These are known as future costs that do not differ among alternatives
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What is Currently Attainable
This type of standard is reasonably attainable with effort and highly effective for encouraging employees
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DAILY COUBLE
DAILY DOUBLE
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What is Contribution or Variable
This type of Income Statement includes the contribution margin
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What is External
This is the most expensive Quality cost for a company
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What is the Theory of constraints
This theory is used to identify bottle necks that must be overcome in a business production schedule
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What is Favourable
We actually paid $500 for shoes, but expected to pay $1000. This scenario is called this term.
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What isa Collections Budget
A company relies on this report to determine their Accounts Receivable
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What is Absorption
This type of Income Statement is mainly prepared for people external from the company. For example, government auditors
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What is Internal
Cost of Scrap is considered this type of Quality cost
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What is a Resource Utilization Decision
These decisions are usually short term and are applied to manage a constrained resource
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What is Management by Exception
The key to effective variance analysis is this form of management style
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What is Zero Based Budgeting
A budgeting system that requires managers to estimate sales, production, etc. as though operations are being started for the first time each year
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What is the Net Operating Income
No matter the type of Income Statement, this number will be the same on both
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What is Customer Response Time
Efficiency and timeliness are are measured by Manufacturing cycle time, and this other time, which is the amount of time it takes to deliver a product or service after it is ordered
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What is Yes
See Steak Problem
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DAILY DOUBLE
DAILY DOUBLE
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