Cash Outflow Cash Inflow: (Not Expense) (Not Income)
Cash Outflow Cash Inflow: (Not Expense) (Not Income)
Cash Outflow Cash Inflow: (Not Expense) (Not Income)
Cash Outflow is at present date (Not Expense) Cash Inflow is at a Future date (Not Income)
Any such decision is a Capital Budgeting Decision. Involves a particular process to be followed. Like all other investment decisions, this also involves a cost and a benefit. Has various investment appraisal methods. Has various tools to measure the future cash inflows at present date.
Departmental Budgets
Sales Department Budget (what, where, how much to sale and at what price) Production Department Budget (what, when & how much to produce and at what cost) Material & Purchase Budgets (What, when, how much & at what price to procure) Labour Budgets (Qnty. & Qlty. Of labour and labour rates)
Manufacturing Overheads Budget (activities and related expenses involved in production) Non-Manufacturing cost Budget (admin and organizational activities involved and related expenses) Finance Budget (quantity of funds, quality of funds and cost of funds)
Master Budgets
Clubbing up of all the departmental budgets. Taking into consideration management aspect on all these budgets. Impact of all these budgets on the Profit and Loss accounts and Balance Sheets of the organization. Submission of the budgets to the top management for approval. Once approved, practically implementing the budget.
Costs
Cost structure of an organization. Fixed Costs Immaterial of production (Eg. Salaries, wages etc.) Variable Costs varies with production (Eg. RM Cost, electricity etc.) Semi Variable Costs Fixed to an extent but beyond that level varies with production (Eg. Light bill) Why set budgets for costs ? Budgeting variable costs ? How ?
Budgetary Control
Budget as benchmarks. Implementation of budget operational implementation. Periodical comparison of actual performance with budgets set. Variances
Variance Analysis
Actual Performance vis--vis Budget set. Variance in actual as per the benchmark set. 2 Basic parameters of variance:
Both types of variances are quantified in terms of amount of impact on bottom line. Variances are analysed in light of the given environment and situations.