Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Finance Unit - Budgets
- DEF: A budget is a financial plan that sets targets based on projected costs and revenues
- Types of Budgets
- Income budget
- expenditure budget
- profit budget
- BENEFITS of using budgets:
- - can measure performance
- - can improve motivation
- -progress monitoring
- DRAWBACKS of using budgets:
- - new business's lack experiance in setting realistic budgets
- Costs are volatile and can change quickly
- Variance analysis-
- Favourable variance
- Actual costs are lower than budgeted figures
- Adverse variance
- costs are more than budgeted