Posted by admin | Budget Analysis | Posted on January 20th, 2012
Every month large organisations pour over budgets, Analysiing variances, updating forcasts.. But what about Small Businesses? Should they budget too? Absolutely. If you don’t prepare a budget you have nothing to aim to. Budgeting will assist with business planning and cost control ultimately success.
What Is a Budget?Although you might not know it, you prepare a budget each time you estimate how much cash you will have left at the end of the month after paying your bills.
A budget is a forecast of all cash sources and cash expenditures. It is organized in the same format as a financial statement, and most commonly covers a 12-month period. At the end of the year, the anticipated income and expenses developed in the budget are compared to the actual performance of the business as recorded in the financial statement.
The budgeting process takes a number of steps the first I would suggest is profit and loss forecast.
This involves taking last years monthly profit and loss statements and teasing out budgeted figures for the following month/ year in a spreadsheet. For example if your sales in February 2010 were €70K but you know you have a new sales person and better products this year you should be budgeting for €100K
If your phone bill was €1k last March and you’ve changed providers and negotiated a discount you can lower this amount. Its extremely important to be realistic with these figures. Otherwise the whole budgeting process is a waste of time.
Once you have extrapolated out the monthly profit and loss figures you now have the basis of your budget. Remember your budgeting is an ongoing process. Theres no point in preparing a budget and sticking it in a drawer for the year. You need to constantly measure your results against your predicted budget figures and catch small problems before they become an issue.
Here are our tips to making budgeting work for your small business
1. Update the budget every month and analyse your variances. If you have your budget set up correctly in a spreadsheet this should be a simple case of plugging in figures.
2. Set up a very simple system for your budget. If it takes too much time, you wont do it. `
3. Build up a cash reserve. Budgeting should help you control costs and cash flow. In uncertain economic times a cash reserve will help you sleep at night
4. Be Conservative. Expecting a 40% sales increase in one month for no apparent reason is not going to end well. If your constantly missing your targets you will become deflated.
5. Be Flexible. If one of your figures is way out for example you purchased new equiptment which wasn’t planned, you may find production has increased to matcth this.
6. Accept that budgeting is a form of estimation and by that nature it will never be perfect.
7. Don’t scrimp too much on critical expenditure which drives sales, For example marketing or sales person commission.
Posted by admin | Budget Analysis | Posted on January 5th, 2012
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Avis Budget Group, Inc. (Avis) is principally engaged in the business of renting cars and trucks in the global vehicle rental industry. The company operates under two brands namely Avis and Budget. The Avis, provides car rental to the premium commercial and leisure purpose in travel industry. The companys Budget operations includes rental car supplier to the price-conscious travelers. The company operates at approximately 6,500 car and truck rental locations in the US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Latin America, the Caribbean and parts of the Pacific region and has a fleet of more than 350,000 vehicles. Avis has completed more than 23 million vehicle rental transactions worldwide in 2009. The company is headquartered in Parsippany, US.
Table of Contents :
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1.1 Overview
1.2 Key Facts
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2.4.1 Key Employee Biographies
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Posted by admin | Budget Analysis | Posted on January 30th, 2011
The Indian mobile device market comes of age
The Victorian State Government in Australia comprises an ICT market of around A$ 1 billion in annual ICT expenditure. Ovum provides an overview of this market, profiling the major departments and agencies in terms of their ICT budget commitments, major ICT contracts, and key ICT suppliers.
Table of Contents :
SUMMARY
Impact
Ovum view
KEY MESSAGES
Overview of the Victorian State Government ICT market
Understanding the Victoria State Government ICT market
POLICY AND PROGRAM CONTEXT
Outputs, outcome, and inputs – ambiguity and tension
Mega-departments – big silos
Whole-of-government ICT – leadership of the horizontal
Shared services – efficient “back ends”
Government 2.0
Implications for government ICT
BUDGET ALLOCATIONS FOR ICT PROJECTS
New projects – understanding the budget cycle
Practical timing impacts
Policy imperatives
Implications for suppliers
Existing commitments for ICT projects in recent State Budget
Listing of ICT projects funded in past State Budgets
Annualized view of the ICT projects funding commitments
Observations on the 20010/11 Budget
The IT funding tap has been turned down
Funding slowdown reflects caution about IT project delivery
2009/10 may prove to be a high watermark for the government’s IT spend
ICT CONTRACTS
Contracted ICT spend
Departmental ICT contract portfolios
Major ICT suppliers
Panel contracts
Suppliers providing contractors
MAJOR ACTIVE ICT PROJECTS BY DEPARTMENT
Department of Education and Early Childhood Development
Agency description
Key facts
Major ICT projects
ICT contracts portfolio
Department Industry Innovation & Regional Development
Agency description
Key facts
Major ICT initiatives and contracts
ICT contracts portfolio
Departments of Health and Human Services
Agency description
Key facts (combined departments)
Major ICT initiatives
ICT contracts portfolio
Department of Justice
Agency description
Key facts
Major outsourcing relationships
Major ICT Projects – Justice
Major ICT Projects – Victoria Police
ICT contracts portfolio
Department of Planning and Community Development
Agency description
Key facts
Major ICT projects
ICT contracts portfolio
Department of Premier and Cabinet
Agency description
Key facts
ICT contracts portfolio
Department of Primary Industries
Agency description
Key facts
ICT contracts portfolio
Department of Sustainability and Environment
Agency description
Key facts
Major ICT projects
ICT contracts portfolio
Department of Transport
Description
Key facts
Major ICT projects
ICT contracts portfolio
Department of Treasury and Finance
Agency description
Key facts
Major ICT projects
ICT contracts portfolio
List of Tables
Table 1: Major ICT project funded in the State Budget over the past seven years
Table 2: Estimated total value of active ICT contracts by department
Table 3: Suppliers with contracts active in 2009/10 and beyond – sorted by contract value (over $ 50 million)
Table 4: Suppliers with contracts active in 2009/10 and beyond – sorted by contract value ($ 14–50 million)
Table 5: Suppliers with contracts active in 2009/10 and beyond – sorted by contract value ($ 9–14 million)
Table 6: Suppliers with contracts active in 2009/10 and beyond – sorted by contract value ($ 6–9 million)
Table 7: Suppliers with contracts active in 2009/10 and beyond – sorted by contract value ($ 4–6 million)
Table 8: Suppliers with contracts active in 2009/10 and beyond – sorted by contract value ($ 2.5–4.0 million)
Table 9: Suppliers with contracts active in 2009/10 and beyond – sorted by contract value ($ 1.7–2.5 million)
Table 10: Suppliers with contracts active in 2009/10 and beyond – sorted by contract value ($ 1.0–1.6 million)
Table 11: Suppliers with contracts active in 2009/10 and beyond – sorted by contract value ($ 0.7–1.0 million)
Table 12: Suppliers with contracts active in 2009/10 and beyond – sorted by contract value ($ 530,000–700,000)
Table 13: Suppliers with contracts active in 2009/10 and beyond – sorted by contract value ($ 450,000–530,000)
Table 14: Suppliers with contracts active in 2009/10 and beyond – sorted by contract value ($ 360,000–450,000)
Table 15: Suppliers with contracts active in 2009/10 and beyond – sorted by contract value ($ 300,000–360,000)
Table 16: Suppliers with contracts active in 2009/10 and beyond – sorted by contract value ($ 240,000–300,000)
Table 17: Suppliers with contracts active in 2009/10 and beyond – sorted by contract value ($ 170,000–240,000)
Table 18: Suppliers with contracts active in 2009/10 and beyond – sorted by contract value ($ 140,000–170,000)
Table 19: Suppliers with contracts active in 2009/10 and beyond – sorted by contract value ($ 100,000–140,000)
Table 20: Suppliers with contracts active in 2009/10 and beyond – sorted by contract value ($ 65,000–140,000)
Table 21: Suppliers with contracts active in 2009/10 and beyond – sorted by contract value (Under $ 65,000
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