Accounting for Governmental & Nonprofit Entities
17th Edition
ISBN: 9780078025822
Author: Jacqueline L. Reck James E. Rooks Distinguished Professor, Suzanne Lowensohn, Earl R Wilson
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Chapter 12, Problem 15.6EP
An approach to budgeting that requires the very existence of each program and the amount of resources requested to be allocated to that program to be justified each year is called
- a. Incremental budgeting.
- b. Zero-based budgeting.
- c. Performance budgeting.
- d. Planning-programming-budgeting.
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The objectives of budgeting are to:a. Establish specific goals for future operations
b. Execute plans to achieve the goalsc. Measure performance by periodic comparison of actual with budgeted results
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Target-based budgeting
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Which budget evaluates the results of operations at the actual level of activity?
A) capital budget
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Accounting for Governmental & Nonprofit Entities
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