Question

A basic idea underlying __________________ is that a manager should be held responsible only for those items that the manager can actually control to a significant extent. A. participative budgeting B. planning and control C. responsibility accounting D. the master budget

Answer 1

Answer:

C. Responsibility accounting

Explanation:

The correct answer is C.

Responsibility accounting is a concept of accounting that is used as performance measurement. The main idea is that big and varied organizations are difficult, and almost impossible to manage as one segment, therefore they must be cut into parts or separated into parts that can be managed. These parts, are called responsibility centers that include:

1. Cost centers,

2. Revenue centers,

3. profit centers, and

4. investment centers.

This approach gives room for responsibility to be given to the manager in these parts that have the biggest amount of influence over the key elements that are to be managed.