Cash Budgets CASH BUDGETS A cash budget is a budget that focuses on cash receipts and payments that are expected to occur in the future. Cash management is one of the main important factors in a business. A company that experiences cash shortages could be forced into bankruptcy in the future. Businesses that have excess cash can lose the opportunity to earn investment income or can reduce interest costs by repaying debt. A cash budget can tell management anticipated cash shortages or excess
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Cash Budgets These are used by management as a guide to planning‚ control and decision-making. • So we can see when commitments are due so the business can make payments on time‚ maintaining a good reputation and being able to obtain credit • To show when the business has excess funds which should be invested to earn interest in either the short-term money market‚ in a fixed term deposit‚ in government stock or in an investment account (rather than a cheque account) • To control by
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Budget Interpretation Budgets help to bring spending under control and lead the way for the development of plans that enable an organization to become or remain fiscally sound. For an organization to develop or maintain financial stability‚ it must understand the purpose of budgeting and how to apply the various budgeting techniques that will help promote and expand the business. Budgeting requires organizations to use financial projections to attract investors and secure grants or donations‚ which
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BUDGET PROCESS The budget combined with individual objectives or targets provides the basis on which employees need to be motivated and stretched. In the absence of such a structure‚ spending may become higher than necessary and the extra effort required to help bring in the required revenue may not be made. As the budget can be seen as a constraint on a department’s or an individual’s activities‚ it may not always be warmly embraced. Therefore the motivational aspect needs to be carefully managed
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ADMINISTERING THE BUDGET A budget is a written financial plan for business operations developed for a specific period of time. Budgets are often developed for six months or a year but can cover a longer or shorter time period depending on the type of budget and the nature of the business. Because a budget is an estimate of what might happen‚ it usually cannot be followed exactly. Staying close to the amount budgeted is desirable. However‚ for various reasons beyond the control of managers‚ actual
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Running head: Budget Development Analysis Budget Development Analysis University of Phoenix Education Finance and Budgeting/EDA 538 Dr. Pamela Wilkins March 21‚ 2009 Budget Development Analysis The budget of a school is potentially the most important step in the daily operation of a school district. Every decision that is made affects staff‚ students‚ programs‚ services and daily operations at the core of the school environment. Every decision can affect the success or failure
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Bangladesh Infrastructure Finance Fund Limited (BIFFL) is a newly established public limited company which envisages to attract private investments from local and foreign investors and to invest in companies that are implementing infrastructure projects in Bangladesh. The Government of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh has already provided BDT 16 Billion (USD 220 mill) to this company as initial equity capital and has taken 100% ownership of the company. But it is expected that the company will
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December 1‚ 2013 Fundraising Budget The project at hand consists of selling cookies for five weekends at the team’s home games. The cookies will be baked in the school cafeteria and there will be paid laborers to clean up the kitchen after completion. The goal is to bake 12‚000 cookies in order to have 500 packages consisting of 24 cookies in each package. The way the recipe is‚ each batch will make about 2 packages which means‚ at least 250 batches must be made to meet the goal. In order
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The Public Budget Cycle of the Bureau of Prisons Name: Institution Affiliation: Course: Date: The bureau of prisons is a program that was established in 1930. Its main purpose was to offer inmates in federal prisons more progressive and humane care. As an agency of the Department of Justice‚ it has the sole purpose of confining offenders and facilitating their correction. Ultimately‚ this results in the agency protecting the society. (Behren & Korfona‚ 2002) However‚ the agency faces certain
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Smith Wholesale’s budgeted sales price is $40 per unit for a budgeted sales volume of 5‚000 units. The actual performance was 5‚500 units at an average sales price of $39.75. The total dollar amount of the flexible budget sales variance is a favorable variance of $. Smith Wholesale’s budgeted sales price is $40 per unit for a budgeted sales volume of 5‚000 units. The actual performance was 5‚500 units at an average sales price of $39.75. The dollar amount of sales variance to the difference in actual
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