Each week, you will be asked to respond to the prompt or prompts in the discussion forum. Your initial post should be 75-150 words in length, and is due on Sunday. By Tuesday, you should respond to two additional posts from your peers. 

Determining Benchmarks

This week we covered Chapter 7, Budgeting and Chapter 8, Evaluating Variances from Standard Costs.  Budgeting is used to project revenue and costs into the future, typically twelve months.  Evaluating variances from standard costs is the process of evaluating performances against benchmarks serving as goals. From the company you used in Week 1, please speculate how benchmarks can be determined when evaluating variances from standard costs.  Provide detailed examples and how you arrived at those examples.

Please make an initial post and two replies to either your classmates or professor.  The initial post must be at least 75 - 150 words with one external reference in APA format, while your replies must be at least 100 words.

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