Budgeting Basics and Beyond

The newly updated hassle-free resource that's guaranteed to make the budgeting process easier, less stressful, and more effective If the very thought of budgets pushes your sanity over the limit, then this practical, easy-to-use guide is just what you need. Budgeting Basics and Beyond, Third Edition equips managers with an all-in-one resource guaranteed to make the budgeting process easier, less stressful, and more effective. Now updated in a new Third Edition to give today's busy financial managers and executives the helpful information they need in a quick-reference format, the new edition covers Balanced Scorecard, budgeting for nonprofit organizations, business simulations for executive and management training, and much more! This handy desk reference and problem-solver will help you to speed and simplify your day-to-day work on important areas from preparing and presenting budgets, to monitoring results against budget figures, to Web-based budgeting and planning solutions. The Third Edition includes helpful material on such topics as: * Financial models that show the relationship among all facets of the business * Planning and scheduling production and related costs * Pricing guidelines for products and services * Techniques for preparing more accurate, realistic, and reliable estimates * Balanced Scorecard and budgeting * Control and variance analysis devices that signal revenue, cost, and operations thresholds * Profit planning and identifying looming problems Brimming with case studies, illustrations, exhibits, forms, checklists, graphs, samples, and worked-out solutions to a wide variety of budgeting, planning, and control problems, Budgeting Basics and Beyond, Third Edition is an invaluable overview of the budgeting process that takes you step by step in handling any type of budgeting problem that comes up--and beyond.