Research Catalog

Title

Preparing a budget : expert solutions to everyday challenges.

Publication

Boston, Mass. : Harvard Business Press, c2009.

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Details

Additional Authors

Harvard Business School. Press.

Description

x, 85 p. : ill.; 18 cm.

Series Statement

Pocket mentor series

Uniform Title

Pocket mentor series.

Subject

• Budget in business

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Mentor's message : the power of a well-prepared budget -- Preparing a budget : the basics -- An overview of budgeting -- What is a budget? -- How does the budgeting process work? -- Why is a budget valuable? -- Types of budgets -- Approaches to preparing a budget -- Traditional budgeting -- Alternative approaches -- Kaizen budgeting -- Budgeting and the balanced scorecard -- Categorizing expenses -- Fixed and variable costs -- Allocated costs -- Activity-based costing -- Activity-based budgeting -- Preparing an operating budget -- Defining your goals -- Articulating your assumptions -- Forecasting sales -- Forecasting revenues -- Forecasting cost of goods sold -- Estimating SG&A costs -- Calculating operating income -- Exploring "what-if" scenarios -- Preparing a capital budget -- What is a capital budget? -- Capital budgeting techniques -- When your budget and reality differ -- What is variance? -- What causes it? -- Tips and tools -- Tools for preparing a budget -- Test yourself -- Key terms -- To learn more.

Call Number

JBC 10-196

ISBN

• 9781422128848 (pbk.)
• 1422128849 (pbk.)

LCCN

2008051772

OCLC

276340673

Title

Preparing a budget : expert solutions to everyday challenges.

Imprint

Boston, Mass. : Harvard Business Press, c2009.

Series

Pocket mentor series

Pocket mentor series.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Added Author

Harvard Business School. Press.

Research Call Number

JBC 10-196