- 20 Marks
MA – Mar 2025 – L2 – Q2 – Budgetary control
Explain eight stages in the budgeting process for a manufacturing organization.
Question
a) The preparation of budgets is a lengthy process which requires great care if the ultimate master budget is to be useful for the purposes of management control within an organisation. Required: Explain EIGHT stages involved in the budgeting process in a manufacturing organisation
b) Budgeting serves a number of useful purposes. They include planning annual operations, coordinating the activities of the various parts of the organisation, communicating plans to various responsibility centre managers among others. Notwithstanding these useful purposes, budgeting has been criticised for several reasons. Required: Identify FIVE criticisms of budgeting.
c) Despite the benefits of minimised inventory cost, waste elimination and quick turnaround time for customers, a lean production model is beset with inherent limitations. Required: Explain FOUR limitations to the efficient implementation of a lean production model in an organization.
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- Tags: Inventory Management, Lean Production, Limitations, Production Efficiency
- Level: Level 2
- Topic: Models of evaluation Quality
- Series: MAR 2025