You have recently been appointed as an assistant management accountant in a large company, PC Co. When you meet the production manager, you overhear him speaking to one of his staff, saying:

‘Budgeting is a waste of time. | don’t see the point of it. It tells us what we can’t afford but it doesn’t keep us from buying it. It simply makes us invent new ways of manipulating figures. If all levels of management aren’t involved in the setting of the budget, they might as well not bother preparing one.’

Required:

(a) Identify and explain SIX objectives of a budgetary control system.

(9 marks)

(b) Discuss the concept of a participative style of budgeting in terms of the six objectives identified in part (a).

Preparation of functional budgets, cash budget and master budget

(11 marks)

ACCAF5 Performance Management