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Budgets

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  • What should a business do if it sees an adverse variance?
    Ignore it
    Celebrate
    Investigate the cause
    Cut all spending
  • What is a profit budget?
    Net cash flow
    Expected expenses only
    Expected income minus expected expenditure
    Expected revenue only
  • What does a favourable variance mean?
    Revenue was lower than budgeted
    The result was worse than expected
    The same as expected
    The result was better than expected
  • How do you calculate a variance?
    Budgeted - Actual
    Budget + Actual
    Revenue - Costs
    Actual - Budgeted
  • Why do businesses set budgets?
    To pay staff
    To confuse competitors
    To avoid taxes
    To control spending
  • What is an income budget?
    A list of employee wages
    Past financial summary
    A plan for expected revenue
    An estimate of profit
  • What are the three main types of budgets?
    Income, Expenditure, Profit
  • Rent, salaries and materials are examples of what?
    Assets
    Profit
    Income
    Expenditure
  • What is an expenditure budget?
    A list of assets
    A plan for expected income
    A plan for expected costs
    A plan for expected profit
  • Budgets are usually based on what?
    Forecasts
    Guesswork
    Past feelings
    Luck
  • Which of these is a feature of good budgeting?
    Over-ambitious
    Vague
    Confusing
    Realistic
  • What’s one problem with setting budgets?
    Too many sales
    Budget surplus
    Inaccurate forecasts
    Too much profit
  • What’s one possible business response to a large adverse variance?
    Fire all staff
    Raise all prices immediately
    Launch a promotion
    Ignore the variance
  • How might tariffs affect Nike’s budgets?
    No effect
    Reduce income
    Increase profit
    Increase expenditure
  • Which budget might change based on seasonal sales?
    Profit budget
    Expenditure budget
    Cash budget
    Income budget