Setting business budgets and measuring performance against budgets is a very important management function. Budgeting has both advantages and disadvantages.
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The most widely used types of budgeting include: Fixed Budgeting (Zero Budgeting and Incremental Budgeting) and Flexible Budgeting.
The process of comparing the actual performance of a business with the budgeted numbers is known as Variance Analysis. What is a variance?
There are many ways to set budgets by a business. These methods may have to be negotiated as there is a natural tendency for managers to inflate budgets.
SMART Budgeting enables a business to have better cost control as costs clearly increase with business expansion. How to Do It?
Setting budgets and agreeing financial targets for each section of a business will have many benefits. The primary benefit is the ability to measure the performance.
The Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of a business is in charge of preparing budgets for the whole firm. He is the person in charge of the Finance Department.
Budgeting is specific financial planning into the future for the whole business, agreeing to the plans, and then following them through the year.
As personal managers of our own life and business managers of our companies, each and every one of us should plan future finances to some degree – do budgeting.