63 Introduction to Flexible Budgeting
What you’ll learn to do: Outline the effects of flexible budgeting on budgetary control
In the previous section, we discussed the preparation of a master budget, which is a static budget. We now want to look at the advantages of preparing a flexible budget, since markets change, competition changes and the quantities we initially determined in our sales budget may flex over time.
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Then, let’s examine the preparation of a flexible budget.