ACF5903 - Topic 10 - Budgeting www.buseco.monash.edu Objectives •Understand the link between strategic planning and budgeting •List the key steps in the budgeting process •Understand the different types of budgets •Outline behavioural issues associated with budgeting Reference Birt et al Chapter 9 www.buseco.monash.edu Agenda 1. Overview: Planning and control in firms 2. The budgeting process 3. Types of budgets 4. Budget variances 5. Behavioural aspects of budgeting 6. Summary www.buseco
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Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of budgeting as a system of organisational control. A budget is a short-term financial plan of income and expenses expected over a certain period of time (usually one year) used to achieve a businesses objective. Budgeting can be useful for exercising control over a business because of its nature as a representation of a plan. Control is generally viewed as making events conform to a plan. As a budget is represented as a plan‚ allowing events to conform
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ABSTRACT This report describes capital budgeting techniques such as NPV (The NPV of an investment is the difference between its market value and its cost‚ IRR (The IRR is the discount rate that makes the estimated NPV of an investment equal to zero. PAYBACK (The payback period is the length of time until the sum of an investment’s cash flows equals its cost)‚ discounted payback period (The discounted payback period is the length of time until the sum of an investment’s discounted cash flows equals
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Modernization of Jinnah Baarge” on July 2012. This career episode describes my job rotation inside the company in DC&S (Domestic construction and Services) business area in the PMS (Project Management Systems) department. PMS provides project monitoring and control support at all domestic projects. Geographical Location where experience was gained This project was carried with Descon Engineering Limited located in its Head office Lahore‚ Pakistan. Descon Engineering Limited is an integrated engineering services
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FIN3101 Corporate Finance Practice Questions Topic: Capital Budgeting 1. Marsh Motors has to choose one of two new machines. Machine 1 costs $180‚000‚ has a 3 year life and EBIT of $108‚750 per year. Machine 2 costs $360‚000‚ has a life of 6 years and EBIT of $122‚875 per year. Assume straight line depreciation over the life of the machine. Marsh is a levered firm with a debt equity ratio of 0.40. The beta of equity is 1.125 while the beta of debt is 0.25. The market risk premium is 8 percent
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as an instrument of social control? How do the pigs rewrite history? In the book animal farm‚ Orwell very carefully created his characters in order to mimic certain political figures of the time. In this case Squealer functioned as the propaganda department. Squealer uses language to keep Napoleon in power. He uses language as a means to consolidate power‚ in this light truth is an element that can be manipulated through language. His use of language is designed to enhance the control that
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THE MANAGEMENT PLANNING FUNCTION Planning - is determining what needs to be done‚ when‚ by whom‚ how‚ and within what cost in order to achieve an objective. It is the work that a manager performs to predetermine a course of action. * Provides the means for achieving a purpose‚ makes the best use of resources‚ makes a manager’s work easier‚ encourages teamwork‚ and forms a base for control. It is based on assumptions‚ involves change
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Chapter 7 Budgeting and Cost Estimation Copyright 2009 John Wiley & Sons‚ Inc. Low Bids If you are bidding on a project‚ do you want your bid to be as low as possible and still make a profit? Accept Low Bid If you are accepting bids on a project‚ do you want to accept the lowest bid? Budgeting A plan for allocating scarce resources to the various endeavors of an organization A budget implies constraints Thus‚ it implies that managers will not get everything they
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Musical Instruments The Chinese philosopher Confucius said long ago that “Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.” Being able to play any musical instrument is extremely satisfying. This includes everyone from the person who has mastered her instrument right down to the beginner who knows only a few chords. I personally believe that if there’s one thing you should learn in your lifetime‚ it’s how to play an instrument. Learning to play a musical instrument offers
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Essentials of Planning and Managing by Objectives OBJECTIVES After studying this chapter‚ you should be able to: 1. Understand what managerial planning is and why it is important. 2. Identify and analyze the various types of plans and show how they relate to one another. 3. Outline and discuss the logical steps in planning and see how these steps are essentially a rational approach to setting objectives and selecting the means of reaching them. 4. Explain the nature of objectives. 5. Describe
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