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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as the division of the once-United States‚ the massive slaughter of innocent lives‚ and the abolition of the inhumane slavery in U.S.‚ America tried to stand up once again from its fall and to rebuild itself as it approached the decade of 1870’s‚ making this Reconstruction period a truly indispensable part of U.S History (debold). An event like The Panic of 1873 and the settlement of the West help expansion and industrialization of U.S. territories. Furthermore‚ during this decade‚ inventions led
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Art Periods/ Movements Characteristics Chief Artists and Major Works Historical Events Stone Age (30‚000 b.c.–2500 b.c.) Cave painting‚ fertility goddesses‚ megalithic structures Lascaux Cave Painting‚ Woman of Willendorf‚ Stonehenge Ice Age ends (10‚000 b.c.–8‚000 b.c.); New Stone Age and first permanent settlements (8000 b.c.–2500 b.c.) Mesopotamian (3500 b.c.–539 b.c.) Warrior art and narration in stone relief Standard of Ur‚ Gate of Ishtar‚ Stele of Hammurabi ’s Code Sumerians invent
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Gettysburg Address by Abraham Lincoln Abraham Lincoln‚ the sixteenth president‚ was one of the most decorated commander-in-chiefs in American History‚ due to his never-ending push to mend our broken nation and move to the beginning. Nevertheless‚ many African Americans were forced to come to America to be sold into slavery in 1619. While the treatment of slaves was very unfair and‚ in many cases‚ inhumane‚ and was plagued with a lifetime of hard work and
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Hurts the United States Economy Introduction: Over the past few decades the United States has increased its use of outsourcing as a means to positively impact the economy‚ due to the apparent economic benefit this action has on the bottom-line for companies. In general‚ outsourcing is the movement of business operations and process to any location based outside the home country. The practice of outsourcing was introduced due to the perceived notion that it positively impacts the economy‚ saves money
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Capital Budget Proposal Initiating a Congestive Heart Failure Clinic Congestive Heart Failure (CHF) affects between 2 to 3 million people each year. Heart failure is directly responsible for the death of 39‚000 Americans every year‚ and is a contributing factor in the death of an additional 225‚000 Americans (National Institutes of Health‚ 2004). As more people continue to live longer‚ the incidence of heart failure will become more common. Caring healthcare facilities have the responsibility
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The Ordovician Period‚ which is best known for its diverse marine invertebrates‚ began 488.3 million years ago and ended 443.7 million years ago. As mentioned‚ this period is famous for its variety of marine life but also for the major Cambrian-Ordovician extinction event and Ordovician-Silurian mass extinction which began and ended the Ordovician Period. These extinction occurred nearly 488 million years ago and 443 million years ago and eliminated many brachiopods‚ conodonts‚ and intensely lowered
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Preparing a Budget Request Strayer University 505 Public Budgeting and Finance 11/1/12 Preparing a Budget Request Dear‚ City Council As the chief of police for a midsized city of 75‚000 residents‚ my crime is lower in the downtown area than in other parts of the city because of the population growth I need total of three new police officers even though I currently have 30 uniformed officers and 12 support staffs. I have a request to the city council about hiring three more new police
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spending for Medicare and Medicaid. The sheer size of the defense budget suggests that it should be part of any serious effort to address America’s long-term fiscal challenges. National security threats have evolved over the past 50 years‚ changing the nature of U.S. commitments around the world. We need a defense budget that matches these new security challenges‚ not the threats of the last century. We should also recognize that a strong economy is essential for providing the resources to meet future threats
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What is a flexible budget? A flexible budget projects budget data for various levels of activity. The flexible budget is a series of static budgets at different levels of activity. The flexible budget recognizes that the budgetary process is more useful if it is adaptable to changed operation conditions. Flexible budgets can be prepared for each of the types of budgets include in the master budget‚ so depending on your particular business you will have different budgets in your flexible budget
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