strategic goals and objectives. The output from financial planning takes the form of budgets. The most widely used form of budgets is Pro Forma or Budgeted Financial Statements. The foundation for Budgeted Financial Statements is Detail Budgets. Detail Budgets include sales forecasts, production forecasts, and other estimates in support of the Financial Plan. Collectively, all of these budgets are referred to as the Master Budget. We can also break financial planning down into planning for operations
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Sales Forecast In this sales forecast with applying time series methodologies the company Blues Inc. has some dilemma’s they need to look at and with a sales forecast it can give them a good overview of what to expect and how to prepare for any losses or new ideas. Myra here is a sales forecast of how it can be analyzed and what to look for in the future for improvements. By using sales as an independent variable we are able to get a better view as to what our budget is and what the company
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FLEXIBLE BUDGETING Definition:--A flexible budget is a budget that is a function of one or more levels of activity. Thus, the budget depends on one or more measures of activity volume rather than being fixed in amount. Purpose:--The purpose of a flexible budget is to develop an estimate or estimates of cost for one or more levels of activity. Activity levels are typically measured in terms of activity inputs, levels, or outputs. Such a budget is flexible in the sense that it depends upon
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privately owned. It is June 2013, and Anne Wright, general Manager of Winbald, is worried about her companies’ substantial underperformance against budget. She needs to understand what has happened, and what might be the best courses of action. The Case Study gives several information on the sales and costs budgeting process as well as the final budget of the company. Furthermore, the Case Study requires an evaluation of the budgeting process as well as a final suggestion (based on two possible courses
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Competition Bikes Inc. Budget Analysis Summary Report Budgetary Concerns There are several budget areas in Competitions Bikes year nine budget forecast that are areas for concern. The factory overhead budget for the year was budgeted at $481,798 less $150,000 depreciation. Total depreciation over the last three years has remained at $130,000 per year for the past three years as identified on the company's balance sheets. Therefore setting depreciation at $150,000 for the 9th year is too high without
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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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Budget Management Analysis John Thorpe HCS/571 April 13, 2014 Professor: Amy Reed Budget Management and Variance Analysis Healthcare organizations are faced with severe financial pressures resulting in extreme budget cuts. Consequently, nurse managers and financial managers are tasked with the responsibility of doing more with less while maintaining the high quality of care offered to its consumers. To accomplish the aforementioned tasks, managers use budgetary tools to help them focus on
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The importance of cash budget may be summarised as follow:-(1) Helpful in Planning. Cash budget helps planning for the most efficient use of cash. It points out cash surplus, or deficiency at selected point of time and enables the management to arrange for the deficiency before time or to plan for investing the surplus money as profitable as possible without any threat to the liquidity. (2) Forecasting the Future needs. Cash budget forecasts the future needs of funds, its time and the amount well
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Budget Management Analysis for the Post Anesthesia Care Unit The budget management process is not an easy task. It is time consuming and difficult. There are some ways to overcome the challenge of managing budgets within forecasts. One way is to budget and report beyond the ledger. Data should be looked at beyond the company’s financial system. This will allow the company to create more accurate forecasts. Next the budget software should be user-friendly. If it is easy to use, the happier the employees
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CASE STUDY Vershire Company In 1996 Vershire Company was a diversified packaging company with several major divisions, including the Aluminum Can division - one of the largest manufacturers of aluminum beverage cans in the United States. Exhibit 1 shows the organization chart for the Aluminum Can division. Reporting to the divisional general manager were two line managers, vice presidents in charges of manufacturing and marketing. These vice presidents headed all of the division’s activities in
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