What is a budget? A budget is a forecast of revenue‚ expenditure and profit. Most budgets are revised annually. What does it achieve? There are two (often overlapping) reasons for producing a budget. One is to persuade potential investors that your company is a good bet. The other one is to plan your business finances – how much money do you have and how do you plan to use it? How much revenue do you need to generate to achieve your target profit? Is your business plan viable or does it need adjusting
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Internal capital rationing Impositions of restrictions by a firm on the funds allocated for fresh investment is called internal capital rationing. This decision may be the result of a conservative policy pursued by a firm. Restriction may be imposed on divisional heads on the total amount that they can commit on new projects.Another internal restriction for capital budgeting decision may be imposed by a firm based on the need to generate a minimum rate of return. Under this criterion only projects
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CAPITAL BUDGETING PRINCIPLES Capital budgeting is the process of evaluating and implementing a firm’s investment opportunities‚ by virtue of properly identifying such investments that are likely to enhance a firm’s competitive advantage and increase shareholder wealth. A typical capital budgeting decision involves a large up-front investment followed by a series of smaller cash inflows. A typical capital budgeting process is focused around following basic principles: 1) Decisions are based on
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Below are the solution: Question 1 Prepare a new contribution report for February‚ in which: * The static budget column in the contribution report is replaced with a flexible budget column. * The variances in the contribution report are recomputed as the difference between the flexible budget and actual columns. Answer Particulars | Static Budget | Flexible Budget | Actual | Variance | Unit (pounds) | 200000 | 225000 | 225000 | 0 | Revenue | 1600000 | 1800000 | 1777500 |
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Flexible Budgets Team ACC/543 Professor Deborah Fitzgerald Thomas University of Phoenix 2010 Team B‚ You have done a great job on the assignment. I have noted some minor issues to help you on future assignments. Abstract The purpose of this paper is to give an overview of the budget process. It analyzes flexible budgets‚ discusses the relationship between fixed and variable cost‚ explores the differences between static and flexible budgets‚ and how budgets assist in the cost-volume-profitability
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The budget speech for 2013/2014 was given by Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan at the National Assembly in parliament‚ Cape Town on the 27 February 2013. Priorities Infrastructure – the government will over the next 3 years invest R827 billion into building new and upgrading existing infrastructure. Spending plans over the next 3 years include: * R5.2bn is to the local government equitable share * R4.2bn to the provincial government share * R3.2bn to the Passenger Rail Agency of SA
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Retail Marketing‚ budget variance vs. actual for Jun 2011. Sure‚ Let me get my notes out that I had submitted to your group. I emailed you a copy as well with your comments for this review. Did you receive it? Yes‚ I did Ok‚ there were 3 main categories where the variance between actual and budget were the highest. Those categories are Compensation‚ Marketing‚ IT‚ and then we put everything else from your department into other. Correct. I have my notes here when we put the budget together last
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Budget management analysis is commonly used by mangers as a tool helping to make sure that all resources in existence get put to use correctly. The budgets are determined annually because they are determined by the preceding year’s budget and differences. Budgets can be controlled by specific techniques to control budgets within prediction‚ consider five to seven expense results with budget anticipations‚ explain possible factors that cause fluctuations‚ present ways to keep results associated with
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TOPIC 7 cont.: ACCOUNTING FOR SHORT-TERM MANAGEMENT PLANNING Lecture Illustration CASH FLOWS Oz designs is in the process of preparing a cash budget for the three months of April‚ May and June 20X9. All sales are on credit. The company collects 50% of its sales in the month the sales are made‚ 40% in the month following the sale and 10% in the second month following the sale. 75% of all purchases are paid for in the month they are purchased‚ with the remaining 25% paid for in the following month
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LIST OF CONTENTS DECLARATION 2 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT 3 LIST OF CONTENTS 4 INTRODUCTION TO CAPITAL BUDGETING 5 CAPITAL BUDGETING PROCESS 7 ORGANIZING CAPITAL BUDGETING PROCESS IN LARGE FIRMS 8 CAPITAL BUDGETING DECISION RULES 9 CAPITAL BUDGETING: EMERGING ISSUES AND TRENDS 12 CRITIQUE 13 CONCLUSION 15 BIBLIOGRAPHY 16 Introduction to Capital Budgeting Indian economy as a whole has largely been insulated against the global economic slowdown‚ the Indian real estate sector though has been seriously
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