Definitions Terms 1. Employees affected by a budget help in preparing it.
2. Planning future business actions and expressing them as formal plans.
3. A comprehensive business plan that includes operating, investing, and financing budgets.
4. Summarizes the effects of investing activities on cash.
5. Shows expected cash inflows and outflows and helps determine financing needs.
6. An approach that requires all expenses to be justified for each new budget.
7. A formal statement of future plans, usually expressed in monetary terms.
8. Approach in which top management passes down a budget without employee input.

Why does an organization prepare a balance sheet? a. to reveal what the organization owns and owes at a point in time b. to reveal how well the company utilizes its cash c. to calculate retained earnings for a given accounting period d. to calculate gross profit for a given accounting period

The east asiatic company (eac), a danish company with subsidiaries throughout asia, has been funding its bangkok subsidiary primarily with u.s. dollar debt because of the cost and availability of dollar capital as opposed to thai baht-denominated (b) debt. the treasurer of eac-thailand is considering a 1-year bank loan for $247,000.the current spot rate is b32.03 /$, and the dollar-based interest is 6.78% for the 1-year period. 1-year loans are 12.04% in baht.a. assuming expected inflation rates of 4.3 % and 1.24% in thailand and the united states, respectively, for the coming year, according to purchase power parity, what would the effective cost of funds be in thai baht terms? b. if eac's foreign exchange advisers believe strongly that the thai government wants to push the value of the baht down against the dollar by5% over the coming year (to promote its export competitiveness in dollar markets), what might the effective cost of funds end up being in baht terms? c. if eac could borrow thai baht at 13% per annum, would this be cheaper than either part (a) or part (b) above?

One of the benefits of a well designed ergonomic work environment is low operating costs is true or false