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Fixed / Flexed / Flexible Budgets

SASyed Ahsan Ali4y ago
Could you plz help me understand these three methods of budgeting: 1) Fixed Budget 2) Flexed Budget 3) Flexible Budget Please tell me the difference between all of these methods. I appreciate your help :)
John MoffatJohn MoffatTutor4y ago#1
The fixed budget is the original budget. The flexed budget is the original budget adjusted for the actual level of activity. A flexible budget is one designed so as to be easily flexed (so with variable and fixed costs identified separately). All of this is explained in my free lectures!
SSHAWN4y ago#2
QUESTION - flexible budgets enable actual results to be compared with expected results same volume of activity -true or false in the (bpp exam kit) the answer is true. DOUBTS - Sir Doesn't FLEXED enable actual results to be compared with expected results same volume of activity? so should't the answer be false ? reference - BPP EXAM KIT JUNE 2021 QUESTION NO 175
John MoffatJohn MoffatTutor4y ago#3
It is true. A flexible budgets enables a flexed budget to be prepared and therefore enables the actual results to be compared with expected results for the same volume of activity, .
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