comments on a performance report 611409

Comments on a performance report

The victoria Hospital is located in a holiday resort that attracts visitors to such an extent the population of the area is trebled for the summer months of June. July and August. From past experience, this influx of visitors doubles the activity of the hospital these months. The annual budget for the hospital’s laundry department is broken down into four quarters, namely April-June, July-September, October-December and January-March, by dividing the annual budgeted figures by four. The budgeting work has been done for the current year by the secretary of the hospital by the Hospital Authority that management information for control purposes needs to be improved, and have been recruited to help to introduce a system of responsibility accounting.

You are required, from the information gives, to:

(a) Comment on the way in which the quarterly budgets have been prepared and to suggest improvements that could be introduced when preparing the budgets for 2001/2002;

(b) State what information you would like to flow from the actual against budget comparison (not that calculated figures are not required);

(c) State the amendments that would be needed to the current practice of budgeting and reporting to enable the report shown below to be used as a measure of the efficiency of the laundry manager.