AACE International Recommended Practice No. 34R-05 BASIS OF ESTIMATE TCM Framework: 7.3 – Cost Estimating and Budgeting Acknowledgments: Todd Pickett‚ CCC (Author) Peter R. Bredehoeft‚ Jr. Ted A. Downen Larry R. Dysert‚ CCC Bruce G. Elliott‚ CCC John K. Hollmann‚ PE CCE Copyright 2010 AACE International‚ Inc. Stephen M. Jacobson CCC Carlton W. Karlik‚ PE Christopher L. Kinney Donald F. McDonald‚ Jr. PE CCE PSP Bernard A. Pietlock CCC Richard A. Selg‚ CCE AACE International Recommended Practices
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The Department Store Dilemma There are several issues presented in this dilemma. One is about Mary-Alice’s heart condition and the restrictions in the company’s medical insurance program. In order to become a full time worker at Bassfield Department Store‚ the policy states that the employee must pass the physical exam. Due to the fact that Mary-Alice failed the exam‚ the personnel manager Bill Chaves thinks that she should be terminated because it violates the company’s policy. However‚ there
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"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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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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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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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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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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The five day recording compared to the 24 hour dietary recall was much more precise and well detailed. The five day recording will accurately represent a habitual diet of the individual‚ unlike the 24 hour recall. The pros of the five day recordings are that it accurately represents a person’s day to day diet‚ helps keep tract of exactly what the individual ate‚ and helps keep track of how much an individual is really eating. Eating can sometimes be mindless. For instance‚ when an individual is eating
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state and that the budgeting group needs to revamp the budget for the coming year. Within this document as the Budget officer‚ we will take a close look at the present budget to determine the changes that need to be made in order to come up with a solution that is politically feasible. In doing so we will examine numerous things in depth which includes looking at how the changes affect the fiscal cycle of your budgeting‚ how the preparation‚ execution‚ and evaluation of the budgeting cycle would change
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Budgeting System Paper The performance budgeting system determines the programs output performance measures‚ the programs total costs and the costs per output or costs per unit of service. Advantages of the performance budgeting systems are that it provides information on the amount of service that is provided by a human service program and the attendant costs includes determining the cost per output or cost per unit of service and that they raise the level of debate from line-items to programs
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