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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How Productive Are You? Find out how you can get more done. © iStockphoto/pryzmat When we want to get more done‚ many of us simply work longer hours‚ move deadlines around‚ and multi-task. Although these strategies can provide some short-term relief‚ they aren’t sustainable in the long term. Pretty soon‚ this approach becomes a way of life‚ leading to high levels of stress and eventually‚ poor productivity. Productivity is a measure of how much you accomplish – not how busy you are.
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2012 ANNUAL BUDGET OF BARANGAY ISOK II An Analysis (by: Abraham L. Cuevas) INTRODUCTION Barangay Isok II in the municipality of Boac‚ Marinduque is one of the barangays in the Poblacion area. This review will present an overview of the proposed Barangay Budget of Barangay Isok II for CY 2012. This paper will also tackle details on the budget preparation‚ budget authorization‚ budget review‚ and budget execution and accountability. OVERVIEW OF THE BARANGAY 2012 BUDGET On October 7‚ 2011
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Sensitivity analysis‚ what-if analysis‚ and goal seeking analysis are used for same purpose to analyze complex relationships among millions of data items to discover business patterns‚ trends. All of them are part of Decision support systems (DSS) analysis techniques. It helps managers to explore possible alternatives. What-If Analysis: In what-if analysis‚ an end user makes changes to variables‚ or relationships among variables‚ and observes the resulting changes in the values of
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B) What does the word “freedom” reminds you of? How would you define freedom? O) Everything can be defined with its opponent‚ therefore captivity comes to my mind when I think of freedom. Being behind walls is not the only thing that captivity reminds me of. Actually everything that limits us in our daily lives‚ everything that restricts our lives can be considered as something that captures us. Therefore a world without those can be considered as a free world‚ though it cannot be fully possible
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If I had 1 million dollars I would spend most if not all on jewelry or cars (even though I cant drive) i’ll just sit in it. I think if I had to choose something unique I would buy two 100‚000 houses side by side‚ tear them down and make a bigger nicer house. I would most likely spend 600‚000 or 700‚000 on the new house after the houses are brought. After that I would buy a red Ferrari and jewelry until the rest of the money is used up. I would but a red Ferrari because my favorite color
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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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Discounted Cash Flow Techniques for Capital Project Evaluation A discounted cash flow analysis is an important tool in capital budgeting as a means of evaluating proposed projects and comparing the growth potential of cash flows. Relevant incremental cash flows must be considered along with the costs of the investment itself in order to determine if the project is to be accepted or rejected. The considerations for acceptance or rejection of a project or slate of projects are the net present value
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Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of budgeting as a system of organisational control. A budget is a short-term financial plan of income and expenses expected over a certain period of time (usually one year) used to achieve a businesses objective. Budgeting can be useful for exercising control over a business because of its nature as a representation of a plan. Control is generally viewed as making events conform to a plan. As a budget is represented as a plan‚ allowing events to conform
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1. How would you boil down Kent’s analytic doctrine in understandable terms for policymakers? Kent explains in the document “Tensions in Analyst-Policymaker Relation” that there needs to be a relationship between the analyst and the policymaker. The policy-maker will criticize the analyst work to ensure that the evidence has been evaluated‚ the recommendations are not vague or biased and that alternative explanation and projections have been considered. He sums up the job of the analyst by stating
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