Cost II Chap I-1
Cost II Chap I-1
Cost II Chap I-1
Accounting II
Chapter one
MASTER BUDGET
BUDGETING CONCEPTS
The importance of budgeting is emphasized by an old saying,
"Failing to plan, is like planning to fail." Budgeting is
essentially financial planning, or planning for financial
performance.
In addition to producing revenue, all companies generate
three types of costs including discretionary, engineered and
committed costs.
Although there are a variety of ways to define costs,
categorizing costs in terms of the cause and effect
relationships is a prerequisite for understanding the different
types of budgets
The Ongoing Budget Process
1. Managers and accountants plan the performance of the
company, taking into account past performance and
anticipated future changes
2. Senior managers distribute a set of goals against which
actual results will be compared
3. Accountants help managers investigate deviations from
budget. Corrective action occurs at this point
4. Managers and accountants assess market feedback, changed
conditions, and their own experiences as plans are laid for
the next budget period
TYPE OF COST EXAMPLES
CAUSE & EFFECT OR COST BEHAVIOR
COST
BENEFIT RELATIONSHIP
Discretionary Fixed,
Cost Variable, Cost administrative and support services
Relationships are and mixed
such as employee training, advertising, sales
in the short
difficult or impossible term promotion, legal advice, and research and
to define maintenance
Engineered Variable in Direct resources used in production
Cost the short
Relationships are run activities such as material and direct
relatively easy to labor and many indirect resources
define such as electric power
Committed Relationships can be
Fixed in the
Cost short run Cost of establishing and maintaining the
estimated but not readiness to conduct business, such as the cost
defined precisely associated with plant and equipment
TYPES OF BUDGETS AND CHARACTER
TYPE OF CHARACTERISTICS OF THE TYPE OF COST OR EXAMPLES
BUDGET TECHNIQUE EXPENDITURE
APPROPRIATIO
A maximum amount is established Discretionary costs Employee training,
N BUDGET advertising, sales promotion
for certain expenditures based on and research and development.
management judgment
FLEXIBLE A static amount (a) is established The static amount (a) The static part: salaries,
BUDGET for fixed costs and a variable rate includes both depreciation, property taxes and
(b) is determined per activity discretionary and planned maintenance. The flexible
measure for variable costs, i.e., Y = committed costs while the part: direct material, direct labor
and variable overhead. Also, some
a + bX flexible part (b) includes costs related to sales reps such as
engineered costs per X sales commissions and travel.
value.
2) Variable costs per unit of output are constant during the budget period,
4) Sales mix is constant when the company sells more than one product.
PREPARING A MASTER BUDGET
I. The Operating Budget
A. Sales Budget
Note: The 25% of June sales ($75,000) to be collected in July becomes the Accounts Receivable balance at the end of June
Production Budget
= Quantity of Material Needed for Production + Desired Ending Material - Beginning Material
c. Budgeted Cost of Material Purchases
= (Quantity of Material to be Purchased)(Budgeted Material Prices)
Note: The 50% of June purchases payable in July ($28,400) is the Accounts Payable balance at the end of June.
The Direct Labor Budget
Fewer calculations are needed for direct labor than for direct materials because
labor hours cannot be stored in the inventory for future use. Time can be wasted,
but not postponed.
At Royal, each unit of product requires 0.05 hours of direct labor.
The Company has a “no layoff” policy so all employees will be paid
for 40 hours of work each week. In exchange for the “no layoff” policy,
workers agreed to a wage rate of $10 per hour regardless of the hours
worked (No overtime pay).
For the next three months, the direct labor workforce will be paid for
a minimum of 1,500 hours per month.
The Direct Labor Budget
April May June Quarter
Production 26,000 46,000 29,000 101,000
Direct labor required 0.05 0.05 0.05 0.05
Labor hours required 1,300 2,300 1,450 5,050
Guaranteed labor hours 1,500 1,500 1,500
Labor hours paid 1,500 2,300 1,500 5.300
Wage rate $10 $10 $10 $10
Total direct labor cost $15,000 $23,000 $15,000 $53,000
Note: Cash disbursement equals total direct labor cost since it is paid in period earned
Factory Overhead Budget
The factory overhead budget is based on a flexible budget calculation. More specifically, the calculation is as
follows:
Budgeted Factory Overhead Costs
= Budgeted Fixed Overhead + (Budgeted Variable Overhead Rate)(D.L. Hours needed for Production
from 4a)
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