Accounting 9706 · AS & A Level · Budgeting and budgetary control

Budgeting and budgetary control — practice question

Consult Source B in the insert.
(a(i))[1]

State one way a budget may motivate staff.

(a(ii))[1]

State one way a budget may demotivate staff.

(b)[1]

Calculate the percentage of credit customers who pay in the month after the sale.

(c)[6]

Prepare an updated trade receivables budget for February and March using the directors’ assumptions about the discount.

(d)[4]

Prepare an updated budgeted statement of financial position at 31 March 2026 using the directors’ assumptions about the discount.

(e)[3]

State three reasons why the company may find it helpful to prepare budgets using spreadsheets instead of doing them manually.

(f)[2]

State two benefits of variance analysis.

(g)[7]

Advise the directors whether one of the supervisors should be made redundant. Justify your answer.

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