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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MEMO TO: Jimmety Cricket‚ Chief‚ HLM Cruise Lines‚ FROM: Edmund Greene HLM Cruise Line‚ Environmental Research DATE: June 20‚ 2013 SUBJECT: Request to Conduct Research Introduction HLM Cruise Lines has been under intense media scrutiny as of late due to our unethical practice of releasing untreated wastewater into the oceans. As the world’s second largest cruise company‚ it should be our duty to protect the waters upon which we sail. Therefore‚ I would like to be released from my current
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his managers. These performance measures can be sales based on a flexible budget that looks at historical sales and measures them against current sales. The manager could be rewarded for the percentage of increase. Quintana can also use a balanced scorecard approach for each store. A store’s success can be based on a number of factors aside from sales. These factors could be customer satisfaction surveys‚ growth within the store‚ and management of employees and human resources. Additionally
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Budget Report Sample Due: November 18th‚ 2011 Part I (20 points) 1. ClearCheckbook Spending Patterns and Graphs Over the past few months you have been entering data into www.clearcheckbook.com i. By looking at representations of your spending over the past 3 months‚ comment on your general spending pattern. Do you see room for improvement and in which areas? Justify your answer and provide a pie chart for each month. * For the Pie Chart‚ Go to ClearCheckbook – Click on
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What goes in a marketing budget? A marketing budget typically covers costs for advertising‚ promotion and public relations. Each amount varies based on the size of the business‚ its annual sales and how much the competition is advertising. Depending on the industry‚ marketing budgets can range from as low as 1% of sales to over 30%. New companies may spend as much as 50% of sales for introductory marketing programs in the first year. Smaller business may just try to match the spending of their direct
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spending — nearly as much as Social Security‚ or the combined 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
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Zero-based budgeting starts from a "zero base" and every function within an organization is analyzed for its needs and costs. Budgets are then built around what is needed for the upcoming period‚ regardless of whether the budget is higher or lower than the previous one. Because of its detail-oriented nature‚ zero-based budgeting may be a rolling process done over several years‚ with only a few functional areas reviewed at a time by managers or group leadership. Zero-based budgeting can lower
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Last Requests By Giles Smith Characterization: Who are the main characters and who are the subordinate characters? There’s only one main character‚ and that’s the narrator of the story‚ who I’ll refer to as ‘The Woman’. The rest are sub characters‚ the wardens‚ the prisoners‚ the husband and the sons. How are the characters characterized – age‚ look‚ characteristics‚ manner‚ opinions‚ how do people see the characters? The characters are all described by their actions‚ and the only one who
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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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| Budgets in manufacturing companies Text adapted by Hugues Boisvert‚ from chapter 11 of the book La comptabilité de management‚ prise de decision et contrôle‚ 3e edition‚ ERPI‚ 2004‚ p. 278-292‚ written by Hugues BOISVERT‚ Claude laurin and Alexander mersereau (HEC Montreal). Table of contents 1. Budgets 2. Budgetary styles 3. The budget process in a manufacturing company 4. Comprehensive example of a budgetary
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