Preparing a budget and analyzing the results of operations in relation to the budget will help you understand how to use financial information to evaluate the effectiveness of an organization’s operations. The process will also help you determine the reasons operations do not always go as planned and make decisions on changes that might need to be made to make the organization, or just your own department, more efficient.

In Part I of the final project, you will use course-provided information to prepare an operating budget and compare actual operational results to the budgets, discussing potential reasons for any variances and areas to explore further. This variance analysis will allow you to make suggestions in Part II of the final project about potential changes to make your organization more efficient.

Part I of the assessment: a operating budget worksheet, a budget variance worksheet, and a budget variance report. First, you will prepare a beginning operating budget for your company, using the student worksheet provided. Your budget will include different products with different costing methods, labor, and sales projections based on a desired profit margin. You will then compare your budget to actual results to determine and analyze variances. You will calculate and record the variances on the budget variance worksheet provided. Finally, you will provide a brief written analysis of the variances and discuss additional information needed to determine their cause.

In Part II of the final project, you will use the worksheets and budget variance report you created in Part I to prepare a budget analysis communicating key findings to internal parties and suggesting potential changes to improve your organization’s performance.

This assessment addresses the following course outcomes:

 Communicate budget planning to internal stakeholders for strategic planning

 Apply costing methods to production for supporting budget planning and decision making

 Analyze financial information in identifying opportunities for operational efficiencies

 Apply ethics within the accounting decision-making process for supporting responsible business activities

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