Question

The practice of preparing budgets for each of several future periods and revising those budgets as each period is completed, adding a new budget each period so that the budgets always cover the same number of future periods, is called:

Answer 1

The answer is continuous budgeting.

Step-by-step explanation:

This(continuous budgeting) is a method of preparing budgets for future periods(example periods can be monthly, quarterly etc.) revisiting them during current periods, and making adjustments at the end of the period. It is also known as rolling budget.

The advantages are:

1. It helps in reducing the uncertainty of budgeting.

2. It helps the management to know where the company is moving in terms of sales and profitability.

Disadvantage:

1. It is time consuming.