"A budget is a plan." More specifically‚ a budget is a plan of action matched by resources required to implement the plan. Budgets generally divide between two broad categories: the operating budget‚ sometimes known as the "expense" budget and the capital budget. Budget in simple word means a sum of money allocated for a particular purpose. Budget is there in everyone’s life‚ it may be a small or a big one. Budget is a tool which helps in controlling and planning the functions of an organization. It
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of potential growth 【Chinese paint online news in 2009‚ according to operations of India’s domestic paint industry statistics show that decorative coating products have occupied a share of the Indian paint industry in the vast majority of the proportion of 75%; while industrial coatings in India has demonstrated considerable market prospects‚ the various paint coatings in India has increased in recent years‚ companies are also in the automotive coatings and paint the field of construction input
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Market segmentation : Asian Paints segment the market based on the usage : BRAND POSITIONING It is how the Asian paints enabled people to form a mental image for their products in the customer’s mind. The strategies that they followed where as follows‚ Brand Image The ways in which Asian Paints attempted to meet the customer’s psychological and social needs. Indian paint industry is a low involvement industry. Till 1990s people will just tell their budget for painting
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our school to be beautiful. I believe that our school will look great when we paint a mural. It will make me proud of our school. A mural would be great because other schools have murals on their walls. I believe that a mural would be good for Strathmore. I think we should paint a mural because it looks so boring without any colour. I think we should paint a mural because it will look cool. I believe that we should paint a mural because it looks so cool and awesome with all of the beautiful colours
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Capital Structure Decisions: Which Factors Are Reliably Important? Murray Z. Frank and Vidhan K. Goyal∗ This paper examines the relative importance of many factors in the capital structure decisions of publicly traded American firms from 1950 to 2003. The most reliable factors for explaining market leverage are: median industry leverage (+ effect on leverage)‚ market-to-book assets ratio (−)‚ tangibility (+)‚ profits (−)‚ log of assets (+)‚ and expected inflation (+). In addition‚ we find
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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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a. Traditional Budgeting Wildavsky (1978‚ p.502) mentions that "traditional budgeting is annual (repeated yearly) and incremental (departing marginally from the year before)". It is conducted on a cash basis in current dollar. It is also in the form of line-items such as personnel or maintenance. This system is essentially a financial plan of estimated expenditures expressed in terms of kinds and quantities of objects to be bought and the estimated funds needed to finance them during a specified
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Summary Executive Summary The 2012 NSAC has chosen students to construct a campaign specifically for Wal-Mart stores to promote the sales of Glidden paint. Wal-Mart is one of the most prominent names in retail‚ while Glidden paint contributes a rich history of excellence in the paint market. Through both primary and secondary research methods our research provides information for the advertising campaign this following semester. Consumer demographics‚ purchasing
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Executive summary: Before entering Iraq‚ Talisman must do their due diligence in order to maximize profits and minimize risks. Due diligence would require a thorough review of both surface and subsurface risks to successfully extracting oil from Iraq and bringing it to market. It is important that they clearly indicate what needs to be done. Given Talisman’s background in Sudan: 1) Being accused of indirectly giving weapons to the Sudanese government by the NGOs which created lots of media attention
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Chapter 8 Cost Estimation and Budgeting 8.1 True/False 1) Direct costs are those clearly assigned to the aspect of the project that generated the cost. Answer TRUE 2) Material is an example of a cost that is recurring‚ variable and direct. Answer TRUE 3) An expedited cost is one that does not vary with respect to their usage. Answer FALSE 4) An order of magnitude estimate is usually more accurate than a ballpark estimate. Answer FALSE 5) Comparative estimates are more accurate than definitive
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