chapters 7-9
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| zero-base budget | a budget that requires justification of expenditures for every activity, including continuing activities.
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| participative budgeting | budgets formulated with the active participation of all affected employees.
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| budgetary slack | overstatement of budgeted cost or understatement of budgeted revenue to create a budget goal that is easier to achieve.
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| sales forecast | a prediction of sales under a given set of conditions.
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| sales budget | the result of decisions to create conditions that will generate a desired level of sales.
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| strategic plan | a plan that sets the overall goals & objectives of the organization.
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| long-range planning | producing forecasted financial statements for five to ten year periods.
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| capital budget | a budget that details the planned expenditures for facilities, equipment, new products, and other long-term investments.
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| master budget | an extensive analysis of the first year of the long range plan.
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| continuous budget | a common form of master budget that adds a month in the future as the month just ended is dropped.
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| operating budget | a major part of the master budget that focuses on the income statement and its supporting schedules.
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| financial budget | the part of a master budget that focuses on the effects that the operating budget and other plans will have on cash.
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| functional budgeting | budgeting process that focuses on preparing budgets for various functions, such as production, selling, and administrative support.
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| activity-based budgets | budgets that focus on the budgeted cost of activities required to produce and sell products and services.
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| financial planning model | a mathematical model of the master budget that can incorporate any set of assumptions about sales, costs, or product mix.
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| cash budget | a statement of planned cash receipts and disbursements.
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| favorable profit variance | a variance that occurs when actual profit is greater than budgeted profit.
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| unfavorable profit variance | a variance that occurs when actual profit is less than budgeted profit.
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| favorable revenue variance | a variance that occurs when actual revenue is greater than budgeted revenue.
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| unfavorable revenue variance | a variance that occurs when actual revenue is less than budgeted revenue.
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| unfavorable cost variance | a variance that occurs when actual costs are greater than budgeted costs.
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| favorable cost variance | a variance that occurs when actual costs are less than budgeted costs.
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| static budget | a budget that is based on only one level of activity.
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| flexible budget | a budget that adjusts to different levels of activity.
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| static-budget variance | the variance of actual results from the static budget.
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| flexible-budget variance | the variance of actual results from the flexible budget for the level of output achieved.
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| activity-based flexible budget | a budget based on budgeted costs for each activity and related cost driver.
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| activity-level variances | the differences between the static budget amounts and the amounts in the flexible budget.
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| sales-activity variances | the activity-level variances when sales is used as the cost driver.
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| effectiveness | the degree to which an organization meets a goal, objective, or target.
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| efficiency | the degree to which an organization uses appropriate amounts of inputs to achieve a given level of outputs.
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| standard cost | a carefully determined cost per unit that should be attained.
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| expected cost | the cost most likely attained.
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| perfection/ideal standards | expressions of the most efficient performance possible under the best conceivable conditions, using existing specifications and equipment.
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| currently attainable standards | levels of performance that managers can achieve by realistic levels of effort.
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| price variance | the difference between actual input prices and standard input prices multiplied by the actual quantity of inputs used.
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| quantity/efficiency/usage variance | the difference between the actual quantity of inputs used and the standard quantity allowed for the good output achieved multiplied by the standard price of the input.
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| rate variance | the difference between actual labor rates and the standard labor rates multiplied by the actual quantity of labor used.
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| variable-overhead efficiency variance | an overhead variance caused by actual cost-driver activity differing from the standard amount allowed for the actual output achieved.
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| variable-overhead spending variance | the difference between the actual variable overhead and the amount of variable overhead budgeted for the actual level of cost-driver activity.
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| fixed overhead spending variance | the difference between actual fixed overhead and budgeted fixed overhead.
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| management control system | a logical integration of techniques for gathering and using information to make planning and control decisions, for motivating employee behavior, and for evaluating performance.
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| key success factor | characteristics or attributes that managers must achieve in order to drive the organization toward its goals.
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| responsibility center | a set of activities and resources assigned to a manager, a group of managers, or other employees.
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| responsibility accounting | identifying what parts of the organization have primary responsibility for each action, developing performance measures and targets, and designing reports of these measures by responsibility center.
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| cost center | a responsibility center in which managers are responsible for costs only.
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| profit center | a responsibility center in which managers are responsible for revenues as well as costs, aka profitability.
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| investment center | a responsibility center whose success depends on both income and invested capital, perhaps measured by a ratio of income to the value of the capital employed.
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| goal congruence | a condition where employees, working in their own perceived best interests, makes decisions that help meet the overall goals of the organization.
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| managerial effort | exertion toward a goal or objective, including all conscious actions that result in more efficiency and effectiveness.
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| motivation | the drive toward some selected goal that creates effort and action toward that goal.
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| uncontrollable cost | any cost that the management of a responsibility center cannot affect within a given time span.
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| controllable cost | any cost that a manager's decisions and actions can influence.
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| segments | responsibility centers for which a company develops separate measures of revenues and costs.
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| balanced scoreboard (BSC) | a performance measurement and reporting system that strikes a balance between financial and operating measures, links performance to rewards, and gives explicit recognition to the diversity of organizational goals.
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| key performance indicators | measures that drive the organization to achieve its goals.
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| quality control | the effort to ensure that products and services perform to customer requirements.
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| cost of quality report | a report that displays the financial impact of quality.
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| total quality management (TQM) | an approach to quality that focuses on prevention of defects and on customer satisfaction.
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| quality-control chart | the statistical plot of measures of various product quality dimensions or attributes.
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| cycle time (throughput time) | the time taken to complete a product or service, or any of the components of a product or service.
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| productivity | a measure of outputs divided by inputs.
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