Efforts to Reduce the Budget Deficit Ashford University Principles of Macroeconomics ECO 203 Charles Fanning July 1‚ 2013 Efforts to Reduce the Budget Deficit For as long as people can remember‚ the United States has been in debt. Every presidents have tried to reduce our country debt. Some presidents have brought the debt down while others have watch it rise. Many people here in America are starting to wonder whether or not our country will ever be economically stable‚ or continued to be
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of Internal Control to Cash Receipts ---Cash receipts may result from cash sales; collections on account from customers; the receipt of interest‚ rents‚ and dividends; investments by owners; bank loans; and proceeds from the sale of noncurrent assets. ---The following internal control principles explained earlier apply to cash receipts transactions as shown: Establishment of responsibility - Only designated personnel (cashiers) are authorized to handle cash receipts. Segregation
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to plan their work and work towards their plan‚ it also has both advantages as well shortcomings that can affect an organization’s progress. The main advantage of a budget is it compels management to think about the future‚ which is probably the most important feature of a budgetary planning and control system. By ensuring a budget is prepared‚ management is forced to look ahead. In addition‚ management‚ the strategic level as per say‚ is required to set out detailed plans for achieving the targets
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for its needs and costs. Budgets are then built around what is needed for the upcoming period‚ regardless of whether the budget is higher or lower than the previous one. Because of its detail-oriented nature‚ zero-based budgeting may be a rolling process done over several years‚ with only a few functional areas reviewed at a time by managers or group leadership. Zero-based budgeting can lower costs by avoiding blanket increases or decreases to a prior period’s budget. It is‚ however‚ a time-consuming
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discounted cash flow (DCF In finance‚ discounted cash flow (DCF) analysis is a method of valuing a project‚ company‚ or asset using the concepts of the time value of money. All future cash flows are estimated and discounted to give their present values (PVs) — the sum of all future cash flows‚ both incoming and outgoing‚ is the net present value (NPV)‚ which is taken as the value or price of the cash flows in question. Using DCF analysis to compute the NPV takes as input cash flows and a discount
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Budgets provide a means for planning the financial future and play a vital role for planning. Budgets simultaneously make managers construct and implement plans‚ contribute useful information for improved decision making‚ provide a standard to administer performance evaluation‚ and enhance organization and communication. An essential component of the budgeting system is control. Control periodically takes actual results and budgeted results and compares the two. It also allows for managers to
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Control of Cash Disbursements Control of cash disbursements is important for companies as most large thefts occur from payment of fictitious invoices. One key to controlling cash disbursements is to require all expenditures to be made by check. The only exception is small payments made from petty cash. Another key is to deny access to the accounting records to anyone other than the owner who has the authority to sign checks. A small business owner often signs checks and knows from personal contact
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6. Budget : A budget is a financial document used to project future income and expenses. The budgeting process may be carried out by individuals or by companies to estimate whether the person/company can continue to operate with its projected income and expenses. A budget may be prepared simply using paper and pencil‚ or on computer using a spreadsheet program like Excel‚ or with a financial application like Quicken or QuickBooks. The process for preparing a monthly budget includes: • Listing
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1. Introduction Increasingly‚ we are seeing many firms from various industries allowing their customers to pay on credit. This action will inevitably have a direct implication on the financial statements of these firms‚ in terms of accounts receivables‚ allowance for bad debt and uncollectible debt expense. This is especially so when customers are unable to repay their debts. In this paper‚ we will examine the 2008 financial statement of four companies in the retail industry‚ namely
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The Arizona budget is currently meeting its objectives and obligations. The needs of residents within the State are meet accordingly. The Congress of the State for the past few years have kept a balanced budget. Moreover‚ the appropriations are distributed directly to the programs/services provided by Arizona. Legislators and the governor priorities in funding the expenditures of the state seem to be connected to the constituents of its districts. As an Arizona resident‚ the proposal for the
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