London Docks Café is a company that prepares meals for tourists and citizens in its kitchen located next to the local airport. The company’s planning and actual budgets for September appears below: The London Docks Café

Planning and actual budgets for the month ended September 30th, 2020

PLANNING ACTUAL

Budgeted meals quantity(q) 20 000 18 000

Revenues (£5.00q) £100 000 £90 000

Expenses:

Raw material (£2.50q) 50 000 45 000

Wages and salaries (£5 500+£0.25q)10 500 10 000

Utilities (£2 500 + £0.05q) 3 500 3 400

Facility rent 5 000 5 500

Insurance 2 800 3 200

Fuel 2 500 2 800

Net Operating Income £25 700 £20 100

Required:

a)Outline the objectives of budgeting and explain how London Docks Café benefits from engaging in robust budgetary processes? (15 marks)

b)Prepare a report showing London Docks Cafe’s revenue and spending variance for September? (20 marks)

c)Based on the variances report you prepared in (b) above, which area/s of activity should be of concern to the management of London Docks Café? Explain (25 marks)

d)Explain the terms profitability and sustainability. Assess and advise the London Docks Café on the measures they should adopt to ensure the attainment of both mandates. (30 marks)

You are thinking of making your mansion more energy efficient by replacing some of the light bulbs with compact fluorescent bulbs, and insulating part or all of your exterior walls. each compact fluorescent light bulb costs $4 and saves you an average of $2 per year in energy costs, and each square foot of wall insulation costs $1 and saves you an average of $0.20 per year in energy costs.† your mansion has 150 light fittings and 3000 sq ft of uninsulated exterior wall. to impress your friends, you would like to spend as much as possible, but save no more than $750 per year in energy costs (you are proud of your large utility bills). how many compact fluorescent light bulbs and how many square feet of insulation should you purchase? how much will you save in energy costs per year? (if an answer does not exist, enter dne.)

Which of the following is an example of an unsought good? a. cameron purchases a new bike. b. jordan buys paper towels. c. taylor buys cupcakes from her favorite bakery. d. riley buys new windshield wipers for her car.

Fred smithers, a recent college graduate decided to open his own portable juice bar, smithers smoothies, to wheel around newport beach. you, a trusted friend of fred, are a business major that has also recently graduated and agreed to handle the books for a while to get some practical experience and have a favor that you can ask of fred in the future. given the following five transactions concerning the new venture, prepare the necessary journal entries for the transactions, post the journal entries to appropriate t accounts and prepare a trial balance as of the end of the month in order to answer to the necessary may 2: fred invests $12,000 of his own money to start the new company. this money was obtained from a part-time job working at a legal firm while he was in school. may 3: fred spent $5,100 cash to purchase a refrigerated trailer that he can pull behind his car and set up at the beach. under your advice, fred agrees to place the new asset under an account called "equipment." may 6: fred bought $640 of supplies on account from the flav-o-rite confectioners company. because they will last longer than a single accounting period fred agrees to record them as, "supplies" as per your suggestion. may 13: fred sat on the beach for six hours without a single sale and was feeling very down. right before he left, however, a plumber escorting his family reunion along the beach stopped by his stand and bought $800 worth of smoothies for the entire family. under your advice, fred agrees to call this cash revenue, "sales." may 15: excited about his new venture, fred withdraws $350 from the company to take his girlfriend out to dinner. what would be the balance in the cash account at the end of the period following the posting of all the transactions?