MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTING - Solutions Manual CHAPTER 14 FUNCTIONAL AND ACTIVITY-BASED BUDGETING

CHAPTER 14 FUNCTIONAL AND ACTIVITY-BASED BUDGETING I. Questions 1. No. Planning and control are different, although related, concepts. Planning involves developing objectives and formulating steps to achieve those objectives. Control, by contrast, involves the means by which management ensures that the objectives set down at the planning stage are attained. 2. Budgets have a dual purpose, for planning and for following up the implementation of the plan. The great benefits from budgeting lie in the quick investigation of deviations and in the subsequent corrective action. Budgets should not be prepared in the first place if they are ignored, buried in files, or improperly interpreted. 3. Two major features of a budgetary program are (1) the accounting techniques which developed it and (2) the human factors which administer it. The human factors are far more important. The success of a budgetary system depends upon its acceptance by the company members who are affected by the budget. Without a thoroughly educ