Master Budgets: Operating and Financial Budget
Master Budgets: Operating and Financial Budget
Master Budgets: Operating and Financial Budget
Master Budgets:
operating and
financial budget
Learning Objectives
1. Describe budgeting
objectives, benefits, and
procedures and how human
behavior influences budgeting
2. Define budget types and the
components of the master
budget
3. Prepare an operating
budget for a
manufacturing company
4. Prepare a financial budget
for a manufacturing
company
5. Describe how information
technology can be used in
the budgeting process
6. Prepare an operating
budget for a merchandising
company (Appendix 22A)
7. Prepare a financial budget
for a merchandising
company (Appendix 22A)
Describe budgeting
objectives, benefits, and
procedures and how human
behavior influences budgeting
• Managers must:
– Support the budget
– Show employees how budgets can help them
achieve better results
– Require that employees participate in
developing the budget
• Budgetary games:
– Budgetary slack occurs when managers
intentionally understate expected revenues or
overstate expected expenses.
– Spend it or lose it.
• Capital expenditures
• Product costs:
– Direct materials purchases
– Direct labor costs
– Manufacturing overhead costs