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Budget
Tool for planning,coordinating, prioritizing, and controlling. Is an organization wide instrument to measure activities in financial terms. Its purpose is to allocate and control resources.
Planning and Controling
1. Develop Budget
2. Analyze Budget
3. Corrective action
4. Future action or plans
Planning
Financial plan the describes revenue and expenses relating to the financial activities.
Controlling Preventive
a control in place before an activity is initiated.
Controlling Detective
designed to find errors that have occurred.
Controlling Corrective
an internal control designed to fix a problem that has been discovered.
Fixed/Static budget
Budgets do not change when expected capacity changes. Prepared to show one level of activity. Prepared from historical data or past experiences. The budget will not change even if your activity changes.
Flexible budget
are prepared for increase or decrease in activity. Based on projective productivity. Adjusted or changed tot he actual level of output or activity during the budget period. Useful for projecting personnel budgets.
Activity based budget
Any project that spans multiple budget lines, and that span more than one fiscal year. Used for capital projects. (Computer system installation and implementation should be controlled using this budget.
Zero based budget
opportunity to continue or discontinue services based on the availability of resources. The level of activity is assumed to be zero.
Justification for any activity before allocating funds.
1. Define the output or service
2. Determine the cost of the service
3. Identify options for reducing cost
4. Identify the options for producing the service.
5. Determine the cost savings
6. Accss the risks
7. Select and implement the options.
master budget
entire budget for the organization
operational budget
Every item should have a direct relationship to a departmental goal that supports an organizational goal. The budget process begins with the board of directors, who approve the fiscal assumptions for the upcoming year.Typical assumptions include the desired growth in revenue or target cost reductions/
Budget cycle
this process begins 3-4 months before the end of the current fiscal year.
Interim period`
any period that represents less than an entire fiscal year. Monthly budget reports.