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Which statement correctly shows the relationship between planning and controlling?

Planning sets the objectives and standards that controlling uses to measure performance, and controlling gives feedback that helps improve future plans. Planning looks ahead while controlling reviews what has happened, so the two are interdependent, and controlling cannot work without planning.

  1. APlanning is backward-looking while controlling is forward-looking
  2. BPlanning sets the standards that controlling uses, and controlling provides feedback that helps in future planningCorrect
  3. CControlling can work without planning because standards are not needed
  4. DPlanning and controlling are unrelated functions of management

Explanation

Controlling needs standards, which come from planning, so it cannot operate without plans. Control findings in turn feed into later planning. Planning is forward-looking and controlling looks at past performance, so option A is reversed.

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