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  • What is the difference between forecasting and budgeting?
  • What is the difference between an operating budget and a cash budget?
  • Explain what zero-based budgeting is and how it can improve the efficiency of the organization?

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What is the difference between a budget and a forecast?

In essence, a budget is a quantified expectation for what a business wants to achieve. Its characteristics are:

  • The budget is a detailed representation of the future results, financial position, and cash flows that management wants the business to achieve during a certain period of time.
  • The budget may only be updated once a year, depending on how frequently senior management wants to revise information.
  • The budget is compared to actual results to determine variances from expected performance.
  • Management takes remedial steps to bring actual results back into line with the budget.
  • The budget to actual comparison can trigger changes in performance-based compensation paid to employees.

Cash flow budget means how much cash a company need enable to support the normal operation cycle (usually depending on the industry). 

Vs 

Operation Budget means the overall inventory (Cash, assets, etc) need to maintain the operation cycle.

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