You are a management accountant at Aspen Sporting Goods, Inc., which is a startup in the Pacific Northwest. Your supervisor, the CEO, is committed to reducing waste and promoting sustainability and wants to develop a system for analyzing the financial and operational results of performance. To develop this system, your supervisor needs information regarding budgeting techniques and strategies for improving the cash position. Your supervisor has asked you to develop an analysis of master budget strategies for improving the cash position and the impact of participation on the budgeting process.

This milestone will help you with the project, where you will be required to develop cost reports within an organization.

Directions

Develop an analysis of the master budget for the organization.

Specifically, you must address the following rubric criteria:

Analyze the effectiveness of various budgeting techniques for the organization.

Determine strategies for improving the cash position and accuracy of the cash budget.

Describe types of estimation techniques in the budgeting process.

Discuss the importance of having accurate budget estimates for the organization and its future.

Assess the importance of activitybased costing in the organizations cost structure.

Analyze how levels of participation affect the budgeting process.

Explain the components of the master budget related to the organizations financial stability. Include the following in your response:

Sales budget

Cash budget

Production budget

Administrative expenses budget

What to Submit

Submit your milestone as a to page Microsoft Word document with double spacing, point Times New Roman font, and oneinch margins. Sources should be cited according to APA style.