Budgets and Forecasting in Accounting

31) _____ budgeting is when budgets are formulated with the
active participation of all affected employees

A. Financial

B. Team

C. Participative

D. Shared

32) A sales forecast is _____.

A. a prediction of sales under a given set of conditions

B. the result of decisions to create conditions

C. the same as a sales budget that will generate a desired
level of sales

D. all of these answers are correct

33) _____ models are mathematical models of the master
budget that can react to any set of assumption about sales, costs, and product
mix.

A. Budgeting analysis

B. Financial planning

C. Accounting

D. Futuring

34) A _____ gives the expected sales under a given set of
conditions.

A. sales prediction

B. sales budget

C. budget forecast

D. sales forecast

35) The master budget includes forecasts for all of the following
except _____.

A. sales

B. number of employees

C. balance sheets

D. cash disbursements

36) Important factors considered by sales forecasters
include all of the following except _____.

A. past patterns of sales

B. marketing research studies

C. competitors’ activities

D. the desired level of sales

37) _____ probably would not be used as a measure of
activity in a flexible budget.

A. Sales volume

B. Number of direct labor hours worked

C. Number of machine hours used

D. Number of hours worked by salespeople

38) _____ are components of a master budget.

A. A strategic plan and an operating budget

B. An operating budget and a financial budget

C. A continuous budget and a static budget

D. A cash budget and an activity budget

39) Which of the following statements is false?

A. Flexible budgets help provide a basis for management by
exception.

B. Flexible budgets are not based on the same revenue and
cost behavior assumptions as the static budget.

C. Flexible budgets are prepared for a range of activity.

D. Flexible budgets are automatically matched to changes in
activity levels

40) Cost allocation base refers to the _____.

A. cost driver

B. total allocated costs

C. cost objectives

D. total costs to be allocated

41) The use of budgeted service department cost rates
protects using departments from _____.

A. service department efficiencies

B. service outages

C. all of these answers are correct

D. price fluctuations

42) Costs are allocated for all the following purposes
except to _____.

A. predict the economic effects of planning and control
decisions

B. determine inventory levels

C. compute income and asset valuation

D. obtain reimbursement

43) Kevin Company has two service departments, Maintenance
and Personnel, as well as two production departments, Mixing and Finishing.
Maintenance costs are allocated based on square footage while personnel costs
are allocated based on number of employees. The following information has been
gathered for the current year:

Maintenance Personnel Mixing Finishing

Direct dept. costs $126,000 $84,000 $105,000 $175,000

Square footage 800 400 1,600 1,200

Number of employees 8 12 24 32

If the step-down method of allocating costs is used and the
Personnel Department is allocated first, then the amount of overhead that would
be allocated from Personnel to Finishing is _____.

A. $42,000

B. $31,500

C. $105,000

D. $72,000

44) Serena Company has two service departments, Maintenance
and Personnel, as well as two production departments, Mixing and Finishing.
Maintenance costs are allocated based on square footage while personnel costs
are allocated based on number of employees. The following information has been
gathered for the current year:

Maintenance Personnel Mixing Finishing

Direct dept. costs $126,000 $84,000 $105,000 $175,000

Square footage 800 400 1,600 1,200

Number of employees 8 12 24 32

If the step-down method is used to allocate costs and the
Maintenance Department is allocated first, then the amount of overhead that
would be allocated from Maintenance to Finishing is _____.

A. $42,750

B. $57,000

C. $47,250

D. $31,500

45) Murphy Company has two service departments, Maintenance
and Personnel, as well as two production departments, Mixing and Finishing.
Maintenance costs are allocated based on square footage while personnel costs
are allocated based on number of employees. The following information has been
gathered for the current year:

Maintenance Personnel Mixing Finishing

Direct dept. costs $126,000 $84,000 $105,000 $175,000

Square footage 800 400 1,600 1,200

Number of employees 8 12 24 32

If the step-down method of allocating costs is used and the
Personnel Department is allocated first, then the amount of overhead that would
be allocated from Personnel to Mixing is _____.

A. $31,500

B. $63,000

C. $78,000

D. $58,500

46) factory overhead appears on the absorption-costing
income statement as_____.

A. a fixed expense

B. a production volume variance

C. part of cost of goods sold and as a production volume
variance

D. part of cost of goods sold

47) _____ is (are) used for external reporting.

A. Absorption costing

B. Absorption costing and variable costing

C. Direct costing

D. Variable costing

48) _____ is another term for variable costing.

A. Full costing

B. Absorption costing

C. Traditional costing

D. Direct costing

49) _____ is the first step in designing a management
control system.

A. Evaluating management’s performance

B. Distinguishing between profit centers and cost centers

C. Preparing financial statements

D. Establishing organizational goals

50) Identify which of the following is not a characteristic
of a management control system.

A. A management control system aids and coordinates the
process of making decisions.

B. A management control system coordinates forecasting sales
and cost driver activities, budgeting, and measuring and evaluating
performance.

C. A management control system motivates individuals
throughout the organization to act in concert.

D. A management control system encourages short term
profitability.

51) _____ is the logical integration of management
accounting tools to gather and report data and to evaluate performance.

A. An internal control system

B. A management control system

C. A financial reporting system

D. A quality control system

52) The following information is available for the Peter
Company:

Sales $500,000

Invested Capital 312,500

ROI 10%

The return on sales is _____.

A. 10.000%

B. none of these answers is correct

C. 1.000%

D. 6.250%

53) The following information is available for the Peter
Company:

Sales $150,000

Invested Capital 156,250

ROI 10%

The return on sales is _____.

A. 10.00%

B. 10.42%

C. 62.50%

D. none of these answers is correct

54) _____ is a measure of income or profit divided by the
investment required to obtain that income or profit.

A. Return on sales

B. Capital turnover

C. Return on investment

D. Residual income