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Budgets and Forecasts: LO To Know Why Business Must Look Ahead To Survive
Budgets and Forecasts: LO To Know Why Business Must Look Ahead To Survive
LO
To know why business must look
ahead to survive
RC
Predicting the future
$200000 2008
Forecasting methods
Years
Budgets are plans for the
future
The advantages
Give managers and workers targets to
work to
Variance analysis = The difference
between the budget and the actual figure.
This will tell us how well the business is
performing compared to how we expect it
should be performing.
ADVERSE / FAVOURABLE
Budgets are plans for the
future
The advantages
Budgets help control how money is
spent so no department overspends
Budgets are plans for the
future
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