Managers Can Create Budget Slack by

question 75

Multiple Choice

Managers can create budget slack by

• A)understating their actual level of sales.
• B)reducing their sales forecasts.
• C)understating expected expenses.
• D)shifting income into another accounting period.

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Definitions:

Defense Mechanisms

Strategies employed by the mind to cope with uncomfortable emotions or thoughts, often unconsciously, leading to behaviors that might mitigate psychological stress.

Unacceptable Impulses

Thoughts or desires that are considered inappropriate or unacceptable by societal standards, often suppressed or repressed.

Displacement

In psychology, displacement refers to the unconscious transfer of an intense emotion from its original object to another, more acceptable one.

Defense Mechanism

Psychological strategies employed unconsciously to protect a person from anxiety-arising thoughts or feelings.