(Drury) The Budgeting Process - Stages in the budgeting process

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What are the stages in the budgeting process? (8)

1. Communicating details of budgeting policy and guidelines to those people responsible for the preparation of budgets
2. Determining the factor that restricts output
3. Preparation of the sales budget
4. Initial preparation of various budgets
5. Negotiation of budgets with superiors
6. Coordination and review of budgets
7. Final acceptance of budgets
8. Ongoing review of budgets

What is the starting point for preparation and why?

What: the long-range plan
Why: many decisions affecting the budget year will already have been taken as part of the longterm planning process.

What is included in policy effects of the long-range plan? (2)

1. Planned changes in sales mix
2. Expected changes in industry demand and output
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What are examples of restricting factors? (2)

1. Sales demand
2. Production capacity

Why is the sales budget the most difficult? (3)

Because total sales revenue
1. depends on the actions of customers
2. may be influenced by the state of the economy
3. may be influences by the actions of competitors

What does the coordination and review of budgets entail?

All the budgets must be examined in relation to each other.

Who should make revises when inconsistencies in the budgets are found?

The responsible managers, and this may require that the budgets be recycled form the bottom to the top for a second or even third time until all the budgets are coordinated and are acceptable to all parties involved.

What a master budget?

A document that brings together and summarizes all lower level budgets.

What is the master budget made of?

1. A budgeted profit and loss account
2. A balance sheet
3. A cash flow statement

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