Overview
REQUIRED:
For this chapter's online journal, think about a business you want to start some day for yourself. It can be either be an online business or an online service provider or a physical shop. Some examples that come to mind are: an online personal shopper business for elders and people who can't leave the house during the pandemic. Or it can be a bakery who sells and delivers baked-goods or a reseller of masks imported from overseas or a custom car shop. Be creative. It can be any legal business you want to start.
1. Tell me what kind of business you have created. What is the name of your business? Provide a little background about your business and why it's unique or different from what is already available in the market? (the business is a vintage boutique so base everything off that)
2. Create a flexible budget for with 3 levels of sales units for your business with these figures:
Sales (price x quantity)
- Cost of Goods Sold/ Variable Costs
- Fixed Costs
= Income from Operations
*See the Flexible Budget on Exhibit 23.3 attached below
You can create this budget in Excel /Google Spreadsheet and copy and paste it into the text box by hitting "reply" for submission.
*A few examples from past students are attached
3. List the assumptions you used for the "Sales" figures and the "Cost figures". Where would you go to get realistic numbers for your flexible budget? What are the sources of these figures?
4. What would determine the different levels of sales/production?
5. What would you do if you had favorable or unfavorable revenue variances?
6. What would you do if you had favorable or unfavorable cost variances?
To better understand what a favorable/unfavorable revenue and cost variance is, watch this YouTube Video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMTa1lZu7QwLinks to an external site.