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The operating or 5 year plan is ....

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how we expect to meet our objectives
how we expected to get rid of of what we are doing
to go onto a 3 years plan

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The planning process takes...

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less than the year
more than the year
randomly throughout the year
more or less continuously throughout the year

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The plan is most detailed for the ___ year

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Question 4

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Managerial accounting is ___ year only

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Budgets are ... plans, expressed in .... terms....that specify how resources will be used over some period of time

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undetailed
detailed
easy
half
dollar
long period of times

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Budgets may be developed and applied to any ___ within an organization such as: aggregate by department by service line by ____ by the nature of the ___

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level
by no contract
by contract
unexpedentiures
expedentiure

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To be effective, budget must not be thought of as financial tools, but rather as

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highly financial tools
planning tools
control tools
managerial tools

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Budgets are used for: planning, communication, control

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True
False

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all organizations use ____ budgets to set standards for the coming year

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annual
semi annual

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most use quarterly budgets to ensure timely feedback and control

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True
False

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Not all budgets types have to follow the same timing pattern.

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True
False

Question 12

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Out year budgets are more for ___ than for ____ purposes

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unplanning, control
control, planning
planning, control

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Bottom-up budgets: -begin at sub-unit ( __ ) level

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department level
lower level
are reviewed and compiled by the finance department
are reviewed and compiled by the lower level department
are not approved by senior management
are approved by senior management

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Top down budgets: -begin at the ___ department with ____ management guidance -they are sent to the departments for __ ?

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finance department
freshman department
senior management
lower management
process
review

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advantages of bottom-up and top-down budgets

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bottom up are usually more accurate in the detailed tasks
organizations can use both top-down and bottom-up budgeting
the budgeting technique that is most likely to motivate managers is....bottom up budgeting is the best way of motivating managers to meet

Question 16

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the major disadvantage of a budget produced by top down process is....

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budget provide a means for coordinating the plans of all organization subunits. thus, budgets are a way to ''promote goal congruence''
this lack of participation may impair the coordination of objectives of subunits with those of the organization (goal congruence)
lower level managers will tend not to have an understanding and support for the top down budget

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a problem with bottom up budgeting is .... = individual team members overstate their budget needs

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True
False

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___ budget is the ___ budget that develops the ___ data needed for the other budgets

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statistics budget, foundation budget, input data
rhetoric budget, financial budget, output data

Question 19

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Important: a static budget is a budget that does not change as volume changes.

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True
False

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statistics budget contains the basic forecasts for:

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volume of services provided
no volume provided
resources ( such as no labor and capital) needed to provide those services
resources ( such as labor and capital) needed to provide those services
smaller organizations do not have one at all.
smaller organizations may not have one.

Question 21

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''revenue budget'' combines with volume data from the statistics budget with reimbursement expectations to ___ revenues

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forecast revenues
get rid of revenues
buy reveneues

Question 22

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the end result is a revenue forecast when it comes to revenue budget end results:

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in the aggregate
by department
by service
by diagnosis
by no service
community

Question 23

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expense budget combines volume data from the statistics budget with detailed resource utilization data to forecast expenses

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True
False

Question 24

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1. to be most useful, expenses must be broke down into ___ and ___ components. 2. like revenues, expenses must be forecasted at ____ levels

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1. fixed and variable components
1. fixed and no variable components
2 . one
2. two
3. multiple

Question 25

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at larger organizations, each category will have a separate budget

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True
False

Question 26

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for larger organizations, the _____ budget, focuses on _______ profitibiality, combines information from the ___ and expense budgets

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operation budget
reality profitability
projected profitability
revenue
assests
small organizations may use a single operating budget in place of multiple budget types

Question 27

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Operating budget example, budget is divided into four parts. choose 4.

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volume assumptions
revenue assumptions
fixed cost assumptions
cost assumptions
PMPM statement
p&l statement

Question 28

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variance analysis is so useful to health service managers

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True
False

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in variance analysis, there are 3 types of data used. 1. static budget, which is the ___ budget, unadjusted for realized volume 2. the realized, or actual, data reflects _____ results 3. a flexible budget is one that has been ___ to reflect realized volume, using ___ assumption

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1 original
1 unoriginal
1 new
2 before the fact results
2 after the fact results
3 adjusted, initial
3 unadjusted, initial

Question 30

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An initial budget — known as a "static" budget

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True
False

Question 31

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flexible budget useful in variance analysis

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True
False

Question 32

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if the number of enrollees had changed a __________ flexible budget would be required

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a(n) old
third
second
first

Question 33

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costs are based on ___ volume applied to ____ assumptions

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realized, first
realized, new
realized, initial
realized, usage

Question 34

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profit variance = ___ - ____

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actual revenues - static revenues
static costs - actual costs
actual profit - static profit

Question 35

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profit variance = actual profit - static profit ap - sp revenue variance = actual revenues - static revenues ar - sr cost variance = static cost - actual costs sc - ac

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variance are defined such that a negative (-) variance is ____

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good
bad

Question 37

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''variance analysis'' is applied to operating data such as ''census, labor hours, number of outpatient visits, and so on '' often on a weekly (or even daily) basis

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True
False

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