Question 110
An accounting team resolves the following issue: Finance reallocates a portion of one cost center's budget to another, but the transfer is recorded as a new additional budget increase. Which observed record or result is decisive?
Explanation
Correct Answer
Total budget remains unchanged while the two cost centers show the intended shift. This directly tests the intended correction: Create a budget transfer entry that decreases the source and increases the destination within approved rules. The underlying failure or control mechanism is: Budget transfers differ from original budget increases and should preserve the overall funding envelope.
Incorrect Answers
The distributed amounts reconcile to the original corporate total and approved driver ratios. That would verify a different case: A company calculates departmental budgets by allocating a fixed corporate amount using headcount percentages, but an outdated driver produces distorted results. It does not verify the required corrective action: Create a budget transfer entry that decreases the source and increases the destination within approved rules.
Budget report distinguishes original, revision and transfer transactions in the correct model. That would verify a different case: An imported budget register entry has the right cost center but uses an incorrect budget code, causing the movement to appear as an original budget. It does not verify the required corrective action: Create a budget transfer entry that decreases the source and increases the destination within approved rules.
Total authorized budget increases by exactly the approved supplemental amount. That would verify a different case: A department requests additional spending for an unforeseen event but finance enters it as a transfer from another cost center with no source budget. It does not verify the required corrective action: Create a budget transfer entry that decreases the source and increases the destination within approved rules.