Answer:
The main conflict that results between planning and control use of budgets is that managers might place their own personal interests before the interests of the company. This might result in budgets that are easily achievable (resulting in bonuses) or shifting income from one period to another in order to achieve certain budgets that will result in bonuses.
I will use a real life example that happened to me to explain this. I worked as a B2B sales representative for a large corporation (we were only 2 B2B salespeople + 1 manager) and when sales were slowing down, upper management would set up bonuses for achieving certain sales goals. The problem was that intentionally certain large sales that required management's approval were delayed and total sales would fall. Then suddenly the bonus show sup and all the large sales were approved and in two weeks the sales goals were achieved. Since B2B sales are not about selling to a lot of customers, but instead selling to the right customers a lot of products, a couple of delayed big sales made a huge difference and a 1% bonus meant changing your old car for a new one.
Answer:
$ 13.167 / unit
Explanation:
Data provided:
Beginning material cost = $ 126,000
Number of units in work in progress = 12,000 units
Material cost assigned = $ 32,000
thus,
the total material cost involved = $ 126,000 + $ 32,000 = $ 158,000
Now,
the material cost per equivalent unit = Total material cost involved / number of units
on substituting the values, we have
the material cost per equivalent unit = $ 158,000 / 12,000
or
= $ 13.167 / unit
Products whose demand rises when another product's price increases are called: Substitute goods
Answer: Capital structure
Explanation: In simple words, capital structure refers to the proportion of different securities that an organisation uses as a combination to fund its operations. In other words, the amount of debt and equity in total capital in hand of the business is termed as capital structure.
Capital structure is of high importance to the investors as it directly impacts the liquidity and profitability of the organisation.
The ability of a company to bear its short term obligation is called liquidity and the ability to generate profit with given amount of resources is called profitability.
Answer:
Between quarter 7 and 8
Explanation:
To calculate the recession lets consider the quarter 7 and 8.
GDP in quarter 7 =$4499 Billion
GDP in quarter 8 =$4409 Billion
Growth rate of GDP in these two quarters= 4409-4499/4499*100
= -2 percent
Recession happens when the GDP decreases
