Professional Documents
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Roll no.E19MBA-125
Section: B
Semester: First
Assignment: 1
a) Budget:
a formal statement of the financial resources set aside for carrying out specific activities in
a given period of time.
b) Budgetary control:
Any differences (variances) are made the responsibility of key individuals who can either
exercise control action or revise the original budgets.
A responsibility centre can be defined as any functional unit headed by a manager who is
responsible for the activities of that unit.
a) Revenue centre
Organisational units in which outputs are measured in monetary terms but are not directly
compared to input costs.
b) Expense centre
Units where inputs are measured in monetary terms but outputs are not.
c) Profit centre
Where performance is measured by the difference between revenues (outputs) and
expenditure (inputs). Inter-departmental sales are often made using "transfer prices".
d) Investment centre
Where outputs are compared with the assets employed in producing them, i.e. ROI.
Sales budget
A sales budget estimates the sales in units as well as the estimated earnings from these
sales. Budgeting is important for any business. Without a budget companies can’t track
process or improve performance. The first step in creating a master company while budget
is to create a sales budget.
Production budget
A production budget is a financial plan that lists the number of units to be manufactured
during a period. In other words, this is a report that estimates the number of units that a
plant will produce from period to period.
Labor budget
A type of budget created by a business, company or organization for the complete number
of employees that are employed in labor created, accounted, recorded and apportioned
accurately. Every business, company or organization that employs people has a
monthly labor budget.