Sometimes budget amounts are arrived at by copying the previous year’s amounts and maybe adjusting them by some percentage, under the assumption that if the money was spent last year, it will be needed again this year. if the leadership of an organization instead wants to see a justification of every budget expenditure, then which approach would be best?
a. bottom-up budgeting
b. zero-based budgeting
c. top-down budgeting
to know whether the company can meet payroll at the end of the week, managers look at? (the capital budget, the expense budget, the revenue budget, the cash budget) , which documents daily or weekly cash inflow and outflow.

Homestead jeans co. has an annual plant capacity of 65,000 units, and current production is 45,000 units. monthly fixed costs are $54,000, and variable costs are $29 per unit. the present selling price is $42 per unit. on november 12 of the current year, the company received an offer from dawkins company for 18,000 units of the product at $32 each. dawkins company will market the units in a foreign country under its own brand name. the additional business is not expected to affect the domestic selling price or quantity of sales of homestead jeans co. a. prepare a differential analysis dated november 12 on whether to reject (alternative 1) or accept (alternative 2) the dawkins order. if an amount is zero, enter zero "0". for those boxes in which you must enter subtracted or negative numbers use a minus sign.

Considered alone, which of the following would increase a company's current ratio? a. an increase in net fixed assets.b. an increase in accrued liabilities.c. an increase in notes payable.d. an increase in accounts receivable.e. an increase in accounts payable.

Which of the following statements is not correct? the stock of publicly owned companies must generally be registered with and reported to a regulatory agency such as the sec. when stock in a closely held corporation is offered to the public for the first time, the transaction is called "going public, or an ipo," and the market for such stock is called the new issue or ipo market. "going public" establishes a firm's true intrinsic value and ensures that a liquid market will always exist for the firm's shares. if you wanted to know what rate of return stocks have provided in the past, you could examine data on the dow jones industrial index, the s& p 500 index, or the nasdaq index.