BUDGET PROCESS The budget combined with individual objectives or targets provides the basis on which employees need to be motivated and stretched. In the absence of such a structure‚ spending may become higher than necessary and the extra effort required to help bring in the required revenue may not be made. As the budget can be seen as a constraint on a department’s or an individual’s activities‚ it may not always be warmly embraced. Therefore the motivational aspect needs to be carefully managed
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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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The case titled The Theatre Budget was a short journal about a frustrated Vice-President of a performing arts theatre that had a Board of Directors more concerned about artistic values than how they would pay the bills. Janet Dobbs was Vice President for Administration and President-elect for this small taxexempt organization called the Greater Euclid Little Theater (GELT). It is obvious in the case that there is a divide between industries; business administration/accounting and the arts. One
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Running head: Budget Development Analysis Budget Development Analysis University of Phoenix Education Finance and Budgeting/EDA 538 Dr. Pamela Wilkins March 21‚ 2009 Budget Development Analysis The budget of a school is potentially the most important step in the daily operation of a school district. Every decision that is made affects staff‚ students‚ programs‚ services and daily operations at the core of the school environment. Every decision can affect the success or failure
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The Public Budget Cycle of the Bureau of Prisons Name: Institution Affiliation: Course: Date: The bureau of prisons is a program that was established in 1930. Its main purpose was to offer inmates in federal prisons more progressive and humane care. As an agency of the Department of Justice‚ it has the sole purpose of confining offenders and facilitating their correction. Ultimately‚ this results in the agency protecting the society. (Behren & Korfona‚ 2002) However‚ the agency faces certain
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Memorandum To: Mr. Burns‚ Monty Burns and Company Accounting Firm From: CPA Date: October 1‚ 2012 Subject: Personal Budget‚ Balance Sheet and Cash Flow Statement When one examines financial success for an individual or business what are the attributes does one inspect? Would you look at the individual’s or businesses’ gross income? Perhaps one can examine the educational level of the individuals to determine their financial success? Or maybe it is the individual’s drive and risk appetite
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spending; all of the budget cuts‚ raised taxes‚ and our slow descent into a never-ending debt. Americans‚ like myself‚ are so outspoken about the government’s wrongdoings and everyone seems to think that a solution is simple. In all actuality‚ the solution is anything but simple. I initially believed that a solution to the United States budget was easy and the government just was not trying hard enough. It was not until I was put in the position to actually solve America’s budget issue on the interactive
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Budget Deficit For many decades‚ there has been a concern for the deficit within the United States. Many politicians‚ authors‚ newscasters‚ and citizens have expressed their distress in order to resolve or control the issue. Keynesian economic theory states that running a budget deficit is okay‚ as long as the deficit is not exorbitantly large and is not carried for a long period of time. Even though many experts agree with this notion‚ having a deficit at all is important to the present and
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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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Assignment Grading Criteria Budget Management Analysis Week Five 1. Write a 1‚200- to 1‚500-word paper‚ which includes a cost variance‚ in which you complete the following: Determine specific strategies to manage budgets within forecasts. Zero based (analyzes every expense within an organization and justifies the need and cost of each)‚ activity based (is the gathering of the operating cost data‚ which is assigned to specifc activies such as engineering) performance based (performance dashboard
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