revenue = …?**
revenue = income = sales
a budget is used for what purpose?***
CONTROL
operating budget***
cash budget***
capital budget***
- ex: EQUIPMENT, SERVICE, MAINTENANCE CONTRACTS
traditional (incremental) budget***
THIS YEAR’S EXPENSES + INFLATION FACTOR (uses existing budget as a base and projects changed in relation to the current budget)
zero-based budget (ZBB)***
NOT this year’s expenses; BEGIN AT 0, JUSTIFY EACH EXPENSE
a zero-based budget is ___ oriented***
planning
traditional vs. zero-based budget***
- zero-based = start from 0, justify each expense
fixed budget***
prepared at ONE LEVEL OF SALES/REVENUE, NO EXPECTED MAJOR CHANGE IN CUSTOMER COUNT
flexible budget***
EXPECTED CHANGE/VARYING LEVELS IN customer COUNT (ex: closing a floor for renovation)
fixed vs. flexible budget***
- flexible = expected change in sales, varying customer count
performance budget***
details cost to PERFORM AN ACTIVITY (ex: supervising the cafeteria**)
AKA “mini-budget inside the big one”
indirect (fixed) costs***
NOT affected by sales volume (number of people served)……required for business to exist
examples of indirect/fixed costs
rent, taxes, interest on debt, insurance, depreciation
direct, variable, flexible costs***
VARIES DIRECTLY with CHANGES IN SALES/revenue; directly involved with service of customers
examples of direct, variable, flexible costs***
china, silver, FOOD, uniforms, laundry, repairs, benefits
semi-variable costs***
BOTH a fixed and a variable component; some component remains fixed, no matter the change in volume
example of semi-variable costs***
LABOR, maintenance, utilities (i.e. will always have to pay for people to staff, but how much is needed depends on the # of sales)
what type of a cost is food? labor?***
food = direct/variable/flexible labor = semi-variable
sunk costs
ALREADY INCURRED, cannot be recouped by a new decision or alternative (ex: cost of studying a new computer)
differential costs
amount of INCREASE or DECREASE in cost when you COMPARE ALTERNATIVE CHOICES
what is resource allocation?
placing people/materials/equipment where needed to meet the needs of the operating system
what is CPM?
(Connor :D) Critical Path Method- helps to identify the most critical activities, to best allocate limited resources