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Chapter 8:
Planning and Budgeting
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– Motivational contracts
» To define the links between results and various organizational
incentives
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Planning cycle
• Relatively broad processes of thinking
Strategic
Incrementally specific, detailed, short-term,
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Characteristics of a budget
It is usually stated in monetary terms
It generally covers a period of one year
It contains an element of management commitment,
that is, the managers agree to accept the responsibility
for attaining the budgeted objectives
The budget is approved by an authority higher than the
budgetee
Once approved, the budget can be changed only under
specified conditions
Periodically, actual financial performance is compared to
budget and variances are analyzed and explained
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Business Managers
Information asymmetry
Internally / externally-derived
– Target costing
– Benchmarking
Fixed / Flexible
– Should managers be held accountable for achieving their
plans regardless of the business conditions they face?
– Relative performance targets
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Budget participation
Top-down / bottom-up budgeting
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Target Performance
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Target Performance
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Target Performance
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Cost control
Optimistic
Evaluation
Target should be after-the-fact assessment of what could
have been accomplished, not any of the three choices listed
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