The sales budget is considered the cornerstone of the master budget because

a. it determines the amount of materials to purchase for production.
b. it is prepared last and summarizes all of the other elements of the budget.
c. it plays a minor role in the preparation of the operating budget.
d. the level of sales affects almost all of the other elements of the master budget.

When calculating the bountiful returns that retirees allegedly would glean from stock investments, privateers use rosy projections about a continually booming market. but when predicting bankruptcy for social security, they switch to pessimistic projections of a low-growth economy with abnormally low payments into the fund. in fact, far from going broke, social security produces enormous surpluses. from __ to americans paid more in social security taxes than were paid out in benefits. according to the congressional budget office, the social security trust fund will remain solvent until at least social security is the only federal program that produces about $150 billion yearly surplus, the only program that shows every sign of being selfsupporting and solvent for over thirty years to come yet is repeatedly described by its enemies as being in danger of insolvency?

The economic advisor of a large tire store proposes the demand function d(p)equalsstartfraction 1900 over p minus 40 endfraction , where d(p) is the number of tires of one brand and size that can be sold in one day at price p. answer parts (a) through (e) below. a. recalling that the demand must be positive, what is the domain of this function? the domain consists of all possible values of ▼ for which ▼ p d(p) ▼ does not exist. is positive. is zero. is negative. exists.

Which are the best examples of costs that should be considered when creating a project budget?