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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Marketing Channels Analyze the challenges that organizations face in the effective transition between selling products using the traditional brick and mortar marketing channel and selling products online. Synthesize the strategies that organizations like Zara and Wal-Mart- two companies that are having difficulty developing eCommerce capability can implement to increase the effortless movement of customers between the traditional and online channels. What are the benefits and limitations of selling
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Diamond cut Diamond A merchant‚ after many years of poverty and hard work‚ moved to a distant region and grew rich. He decided to go home. A man told him that his road was beset by thieves‚ and the merchant left his box of jewels with him until he could get men of his own family to accompany him. When he returned‚ the man denied that it had ever happened‚ and threw him out of the shop. Koosby Ram saw him sitting on the road‚ and asked him what had happened. Then he told him to go back the next
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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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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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BANGLADESH BUDGET Growth: the world economy was close to a collapse due to the recent Global economic crisis. However‚ the global economy has turned around and recovered from recession faster than expected. The process and pace of recovery‚ however‚ varied in different regions of the world. In the recovery process‚ the developing Asian economies made remarkable strides. According to the latest forecast‚ the world economic growth is expected to reach 4.2 percent in 2010 whereas it shrank to
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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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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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The two of the budgets that are commonly used in the health care organizations are capital budget and operating budget. Capital budgets consider equipment and building acquisitions that the hospital will be using for over a year. The operating budget is part of the master budget and is the day-to-day revenues and expenditures for the facility. Reviewing these two types of budgets meet the American Organization of Nurse Examiners Competency business skills‚ in “developing and manage an annual operating
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