Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Chapter 6
- What information does the manager need?
- Managers are involved in:
- Planning what the business does.
- Making decisions.
- Controlling business activity.
- Managers will be interested in financial information for:
- Income.
- Costs.
- Budgets.
- What is a budget?
- A budget is a financial plan for an organisation that is prepared in advance.
- What is the purpose of a budget?
- The budget creates plans.
- The budget communicates and coordinates the plans.
- The budget can be used to monitor and control.
- Standard costs.
- Expected costs that have been calculated in advance.
- Variances.
- The difference between the budget figures and the actual figures.
- Variances can be either:
- Adverse
- Where the actual cost is greater than the budgeted cost.
- Favourable
- Where the actual cost is less than the budgeted cost.
- Budgeted cost - Actual cost
- Significant variances:
- A variance that is brought to the managers attention for further investigation.
- Reporting to mangers.
- Income.
- Sales manager.
- Materials.
- Production manager.
- Purchasing manager.
- Labour.
- Production manger.
- Human resources manager.
- Expenses.
- Administration manager.
- Production overheads.
- Production manager.
- Administration overheads.
- Administration manager.
- Selling and distribution overheads.
- Sales manager.
- Distribution/Transport manager
- Financial overheads.
- Finance manager.
- Company accountant.