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This 5 page paper is based on a case study supplied by the student. Several areas of expenditure identified within management accounts, with the actual spending compared the budget spending, presented some speculation regarding possible reasons for the variance. The second part of the paper considers potential benchmarks which may be utilized in order to increase the accuracy of future forecasting. The bibliography cites 3 sources.
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the real and the budgeted costs, these can be considered with some speculation regarding the reason for the diversity between the planed and the actual. In all cases we are
considering the figures on the accounts provided for the current month. In all cases different potential influences that may impact on the overall understanding of the budget are considered, it
should be remembered in most instances it is unlikely that there will be a single course, and usually several different influences will be influencing the result. In all cases there
is also the potential that the budget itself was wrong and made on erroneous assumptions. Looking at the wages part of the accounts it appears that there is a
6% variance on the basic wages, with the actual wages being $271,514 against the budgeted wages of $256,076. This is higher than the budgeted amount. There are several potential reasons
which may explain this,. As a health service provider there may not always be predicable demand for some services, and as such the hospital will need to adjust resources, if
there were increased demand in areas that required labor there may have been more hours worked if the workload increased. It is possible that there has been wage inflation, or
wage rises that have been implemented which were not allowed for in the budget. There may have been recruitment to increase staff numbers and additional wages were paid during a
training period, making this a temporary increase until the trainee labor is integrated into the regular scheduling. Effectually either the cost is greater than expected in terms of each units
used (such as the per hourly rate), or there has been an increased quantity used, or potential overspend are likely to be classified as one of these two groupings (Elliott
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