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Gail B. Wright�Professor Emeritus of Accounting�Bryant University

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MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTING

8th EDITION

BY

HANSEN & MOWEN

8 BUDGETING FOR PLANNING & CONTROL

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LEARNING OBJECTIVES

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LEARNING GOALS

After studying this chapter, you should be able to:

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LEARNING OBJECTIVES

  1. Discuss budgeting & its role in planning, control, & decision making.
  2. Define & prepare a master budget, identify its major components, & outline the interrelationships of its various components.

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LEARNING OBJECTIVES

  1. Describe flexible budgeting, & list the features that a budgetary system should have to encourage managers to engage in goal-congruent behavior.
  2. Explain how activity-based budgeting works.

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QUESTIONS TO THINK ABOUT:�Dr. Jones, DDS

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Why did Dr. Jones fire his bookkeeper? Were his financial problems her fault? Why or why not?

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QUESTIONS TO THINK ABOUT:�Dr. Jones, DDS

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How would a formal budgeting system help Dr. Jones get out of his financial difficulties?

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QUESTIONS TO THINK ABOUT:�Dr. Jones, DDS

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Many small businesses do not budget, reasoning that they are small enough to mentally keep track of all revenues & expenditures. Comment on this idea.

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QUESTIONS TO THINK ABOUT:�Dr. Jones, DDS

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Do you budget? Explain why you do or do not?

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Discuss budgeting & its role in planning, control, & decision making.

LEARNING OBJECTIVE

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PLANNING: Definition

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Looking ahead to see what actions should be taken to realize particular goals.

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CONTROL: Definition

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Looking backward, determining what actually happened & comparing it with previously planned outcomes.

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Where do budgets fit into planning & control?

Budgets are financial plans for the future, identifying objectives & the actions needed to achieve them.

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PLANNING, CONTROL & BUDGETS

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EXHIBIT 8-1

Budgets provide feedback for investigation on achieving the strategic plan.

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ADVANTAGES OF BUDGETING

A budgetary system provides the following advantages:

    • Forces managers to plan
    • Provides information that can be used to improve decision making
    • Provides a standard for performance evaluation
    • Improves communication & coordination

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BUDGETS

  • Improve decision making
  • Set standards
    • Compare actual to budgeted results
  • Communicate & coordinate

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Define & prepare a master budget.

LEARNING OBJECTIVE

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MASTER BUDGET: Definition

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Comprehensive financial plan for organization as a whole.

LO 2

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What is a “continuous” budget?

A continuous budget is a moving 12-month budget, adding a month as each month expires.

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MASTER BUDGETS: Major Components

  • Operating budget
    • Describes income generating activities of a firm
  • Financial budgets
    • Detail inflows & outflows of cash

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LO 2

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OPERATING BUDGETS: Steps in the Process

  1. Sales budget
  2. Production budget
  3. Direct materials purchases budget
  4. Direct labor budget
  5. Overhead budget
  6. Selling & administrative budget
  7. Ending finished goods inventory budget
  8. Cost of goods sold budget

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TEXAS REX, INC.: Background

Texas Rex, Inc., is a trendy restaurant in the Southwest that sells T-shirts with a Texas Rex dinosaur logo. The operating budgets that follow are for manufacturing costs of Texas Rex T-shirts.

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LO 2

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SALES BUDGET

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Schedule 1 describes expected sales in units & dollars.

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FORMULAS: Production Units

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Except for JIT systems, production budgets must meet sales needs & satisfy ending inventory requirements.

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Units to be produced =

Expected unit sales +

Units in ending inventory –

Units in beginning inventory

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PRODUCTION BUDGET

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Schedule 2 describes units to be produced to meet Sales Budget.

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TEXAS REX, INC.: Direct Materials

Texas Rex, Inc., purchases 2 direct materials (DM) for production of its Texas Rex T-shirts: plain T-shirts & ink to produce the dinosaur logo.

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LO 2

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FORMULAS: Purchases

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Direct materials purchases budget tells amount & cost of raw materials purchased in each period.

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Direct materials (DM) purchased =

DM needed for production +

DM desired in ending inventory –

DM in beginning inventory

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DM PURCHASES BUDGET

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Schedule 3 describes DM to be purchased to meet Production Budget.

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DIRECT LABOR BUDGET

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Schedule 4 shows hours & cost of DL needed to meet Production Budget.

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OVERHEAD BUDGET

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Schedule 5 shows expected indirect costs needed to meet Production Budget.

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How do we determine the cost of finished goods ending inventory?

Unit cost of finished goods is (per unit) DM + DL + Overhead.

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FINISHED GOODS BUDGET

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Schedule 6 shows unit cost of finished goods for balance sheet.

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CGS BUDGET

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Schedule 7 presents the expected cost of goods sold for the year.

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How do we project income from the operating budgets?

Estimate selling & administrative expenses, then transfer all information into projected income statement.

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SALES & ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES BUDGET

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Schedule spread over 2 pages.

Schedule 8 outlines planned expenditures for nonmanufacturing activities.

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BUDGETED INCOME STATEMENT

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Schedule 9 presents a projected income statement.

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FINANCIAL BUDGETS

  1. Cash budget
  2. Budgeted balance sheet
  3. Budget for capital expenditures

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What is the purpose of the cash budget?

Cash budgets document the need for cash & the ability to repay debt.

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FORMULA: Cash Budget

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Projecting the ending cash balance includes cash collections, payments, & borrowings & includes minimum cash needed.

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Ending cash balance =

Beginning balance +

(cash receipts – disbursements) +

(cash borrowing – repayments)

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CASH BUDGET

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Schedule 10 presents projected cash needs.

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MASTER BUDGET INTERRELATIONSHIPS

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EXHIBIT 8-5

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BUDGETED BALANCE SHEET

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Schedule 11 presents end of year balance sheet.

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Describe flexible budgeting & features that should encourage goal-congruent behavior.

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STATIC BUDGET: Definition

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A budget for a particular level of activity.

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Why are static budgets not good for performance evaluation?

Actual level of activity may differ from the static budget level & misrepresent performance.

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FLEXIBLE BUDGET: Definition

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A budget for expected costs of a range of activity levels.

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How are budgets related to performance evaluation?

Bonuses, salary increases, promotions are based on achieving or beating budget targets.

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GOAL CONGRUENCE: Definition

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Alignment of managerial & organizational goals.

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What is participative budgeting?

Participative budgeting involves subordinate managers in setting budget targets to achieve goal congruence.

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PARTICIPATIVE BUDGETING

Potential problems

    • Setting standards either too high or too low
    • Building slack (padding) into the budget
      • Deliberately underestimating revenues, overestimating costs
    • Pseudoparticipation

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CONTROLLABLE COSTS: Definition

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Are costs whose level a manager can influence

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Explain how activity-based budgeting works.

LEARNING OBJECTIVE

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ACTIVITY-BASED BUDGETING

Activity-based budgeting fits ABC & ABM systems. Budgets are developed for company activities to show the resources consumed. Can be done as a flexible budget.

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ACTIVITY FLEXIBLE BUDGET

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EXHIBIT 8-10

Budget can be developed based on different activity drivers.

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CHAPTER 8