Requiring Managers to Prepare the Budgets from Scratch or Zero-Base

question 53

Multiple Choice

Requiring managers to prepare the budgets from scratch or zero-base may help them to overcome the problem of:

• A) motivation.
• B) budget ownership.
• C) embedded budget slack.
• D) unattainable targets.

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