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Learn the 25 keys to the art of the budget in conditions of forecasting costs, revenues and profits for short-term and long-term projections:
Key 1. Budget blues.
Key 2. Preparing the operating budget.
Key 3. Preparing the financial budget.
Key 4. Use budgets to plan and control. Use pro forma financial statements to measure and monitor value creation.
Key 5. The budget must consider cost behavior.
Key 6. Managers must be flexible. So must their budgets.
Key 7. The budget must consider earnings behavior.
Key 8. Profits are good. Liquidity is essential for survival.
Key 9. Determining the perfect cash balance.
Key 10. A part of planning and budgeting is setting standards.
Key 11. Selecting and using the best cost allocation methods.
Key 12. Un-sheath the budget ax.
Key 13. A firm's future depends, almost all of all, on the administrative centre expenditure budget.
Key 14. What should a capital budget accomplish?
Key 15. Risk is really as much a part of the administrative centre budget as return.
Key 16. The "unsophisticated" rules are usually more useful than you might think.
Key 17. You can't budget without forecasts.
Key 18. Time series forecasting: days gone by as prologue.
Key 19. Regression: a straight line to raised forecasting.
Key 20. Judgmental forecasting techniques: when numbers are not enough.
Key 21. Evaluating forecasting models: through the looking glass.
Key 22. Financial models: the black boxes of planning.
Key 23. Financial modeling: spreadsheets and add-ins.
Key 24. Financial modeling: more on spreadsheets and add-ins.
Key 25. Profit-making organizations can study from nonprofit organizations.
Forecasting Budgets is part of The NY Times Pocket MBA Series, a reference series easily accessible to all businesspersons, from first-level managers to the executive suite. The 12-volume series is compiled by Ph.D.s who teach in the best possible graduate business programs in the united states, and edited by business editors from THE BRAND NEW York Times. The structure of every volume presents an unparalleled synopsis of crucial principles of specific areas of business expertise.
