Tools for Enterprise Performance Evaluation
Subtitle: Budgeting and Decision Making
Publisher: Bookboon.com
Published: 2013
ISBN-13: 9788776815752
Description: In any successful organization, managers must be held accountable for the results of their decisions and related execution, particularly in regards to budgeting and financial decision making.Tools for Enterprise Performance Management: Budget and Decision Making examines the various roles that managers can have within an organization, as well as the tools and strategies which will allow them to perform to the best of their potential and make financial decisions which will benefit their organization.
Table of contents: title: Part 2: Tools for Enterprise Performance Evaluation; title: 1. Responsibility Accounting and Management by Exception; title: 1.1 Centralized VS. Decentralized Decision-Making; title: 1.2 Responsibility Centers; title: 1.3 Cost Center; title: 1.4 Profit Center; title: 1.5 Investment Center; title: 1.6 Affixing Responsibility; title: 1.7 Responsibility Center Reports; title: 1.8 The Power of a Data Base System; title: 1.9 Traceable Versus Common Fixed Costs; title: 1.10 Management by Expansion; title: 2. Flexible Budgets; title: 2.1 Flexible Budget for Performance Evaluations; title: 2.2 Flexible Budgets for Planning; title: 2.3 Flexible Budgets and Efficiency of Operation; title: 3. Standard Costs; title: 3.1 Setting Standards; title: 3.2 Philosophy of Standards; title: 3.3 The Downside of the Standards; title: 4. Variance Analysis; title: 4.1 Variances Relating to Direct Materials; title: 4.2 An Illustration of Direct Material Variance Calculations; title: 4.3 Journal Entries for Direct Material Variances; title: 4.4 When Purchases Differ From Usage; title: 4.5 Variances Relating to Direct Labor; title: 4.6 An Illustration of Direct Labor Variance Calculations; title: 4.7 Journal Entries for Direct Labor Variances; title: 4.8 Factory Overhead Variances; title: 4.9 Variable Versus Fixed Overhead; title: 4.10 Variances Relating to Variable Factory Overhead; title: 4.11 Exploring Variable Overhead Variances; title: 4.12 An Illustration of Variable Overhead Variances; title: 4.13 Journal Entry for Variable Overhead Variances; title: 4.14 Careful Interpretation of Variable Overhead Variances; title: 4.15 Variances Relating to Fixed Factory Overhead; title: 4.16 An Illustration of Fixed Overhead Variances; title: 4.17 Journal Entry for Fixed Overhead Variances; title: 4.18 Recapping Standards and Variances; title: 4.19 Examining Variances; title: 5. Balanced Scorecard Approach to Performance Evaluation; title: 5.1 The Balance Scorecard in Operation; title: Appendix