Budgeting and Forecasting

Undertaking this task will develop organisational skills, number skills (maths), problem solving skills as you will need to assesses what is firstly an essential expense and the priorities do to the non essential nice to have. It will then once the budget is formed teach a level of disciple as you will need to keep that budget

Budgets are typically prepared in a sequential order, starting with the sales budget, which forecasts expected sales revenue. This is followed by the production budget, which outlines the number of units to be produced based on sales forecasts. Next, the direct materials, direct labor, and manufacturing overhead budgets are prepared to determine the costs associated with production. Finally, the operating budget is completed, incorporating all functional budgets, leading to the overall financial budget, including cash flow and capital expenditure budgets.

There are a number of ways.

Firstly you need as does any business to know what it costs the business to product a product or deliver a service.

All business have overheads (costs) These will (for the example here) be the cost of the utilise such as heating, lighting and water. The cost of man-power, the cost of the raw materials to make the product, the machinery required to make the product to the point where its ready for the customer to buy. You will need to include the cost of transporting to the customer, the packaging to hold the product and even the cost of the space required to store the product ready for delivery.

Then you need to look at the administration of the business, telephone charges, line rentals, computers and monitors, printers and their inks, envelopes and paper for billing, postage charges and the software needed to maintain this like word processors, databases and of course you'll need to cost in accountancy packages and people to use these.

Its a considerable amount of work figurug this out. But is is vital as you need to know what costs you have to cover to make just t the one item. Then you can start to work out what the company needs to operate you can start to look at what you are going to sell. You need in the first stages to work out the "making" or production process of the product time and materials need to make the one and then you can ascertain what the break even cost is and then add in a % for profit margin

Selling a service is similar

Whilst this seems a huge piece of work it is actually what every new business needs to do to get a cost factor accuratley in palce.

You can, if you have a "competitor" selling the same service or product find out what they charge and start at that poin but you will still need to be mindful of what its costs YOU do make or provide a product/service. The leaner you can work and keep cost down (because youve looked at your running cost) the more cometitive you can be.

There are a number of tools available to aid in home budgeting. There are budget planners and organizers, software, books and even credit counselling services.

Every business not matter how big or small should each year create a budget to run their business. Each department then will be allocated their share and expected to use that budget and NOT exceed it. There are time when despite your best endeavours the budget is just not enough and a re-budget is put in place . That is not done except in exceptional situations.

Each person responsible for maintaining the control of the budget has to monitor these spending very carefully. If someone is not managing the spending or is spending their budgets on things that are not part of the business requirement etc then this is mismanagement.

Equilibrium in budgeting refers to a state where an organization's revenues match its expenses, resulting in a balanced budget. This means that the income generated is sufficient to cover all planned expenditures without creating deficits or surpluses. Achieving equilibrium helps ensure financial stability and promotes effective resource allocation. In practice, it involves careful planning and monitoring of financial activities to maintain this balance over time.

A budget is a plan about how to spend money. There are also plans about many other things, such as plans to entertain yourself for the evening, plans for self improvement, plans to invade other countries, and so forth. It could be argued that all these other plans also involve spending money, but that is not necessarily the case (my entertainment for the evening could involve reading a book that I already own or that I borrowed from the library at no cost to myself) and even if my plans do involve spending money, it matters whether the main purpose of the plan is to figure out how best to spend my money (in which case the plan is a budget) or whether the main purpose of the plan is something else (in which case it isn't a budget).

There are a number of data requirements to make the budgeting more effective and accurate.

Firstly identify fixed costs that will be required.

These are the financial outgoings you know must be paid out in the forecast year. These are i.e. rents, utilities expected for instance heating, water, fuel, licences and professional fees like accountants, legal support.

You will need to look at labour costs and expected increases if/when work load demands, maintenance of equipment, administration costs right down to paper clips, replacement of equipment like computers, printers chairs and manufacture equipment. You will need to have a very accurate estimate of income. Then you can work out what you can allow the business to spend against the income expected and profit margin require.

a. It results in accurate ongoing inventory

b. It lets the company incur adjustment costs on a monthly rather than annual basis

c. It allows the company to look for and correct ongoing discrepancies

In the business world, the term costing describes the process of figuring out how much something is going to cost. Materials costing, then, is the process of figuring out how much materials are going to cost. Materials include such things as lumber, gravel, cement, fiberglass insulation, etc.

Some managers are reluctant to participate in budgeting because they do not like to discuss financial matters. They may also feel like developing a budget stops flexibility in an organization. Some want to control all the money without any restraints.

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Fixed costs i.e. Rents, professional fees like insurances, licences, accountants legal support annual maintanance charges.

variables will include the cost of the raw produsts to sell, cleaning materials, wages, utilities

A fixed cost is one that does not change irrespective of the volume of business that is experienced by the business. Contractual expenses may, at first thought, seem fixed but there is insufficient information in the question to be sure. The contract may involved a sliding scale of expense or may involve increased or decreased expense according to a variety of conditions within the contract. Therefore it does not necessarily follow that a contractual expense is also a fixed expense.

The budget significantly impacts the design process by constraining the materials, resources, and technologies that can be used, which in turn influences the overall aesthetic and functionality of the design. Designers must prioritize features and make trade-offs to stay within financial limits, often leading to creative solutions that maximize value. Additionally, a limited budget can affect timelines and collaboration opportunities, requiring more efficient communication and decision-making throughout the project. Ultimately, budget considerations shape the feasibility and scope of design outcomes.

A short supply will usually have the effect of increasing price. This is due to basic laws of supply and demand. If the price of raw materials increases, then the forecasted profit will be in jeopardy.

If the margin is low, then the business needs a large volume of sales. This is a mormal state of affairs for many businesses particularly when there is competition from other businesses. A petrol station may have a margin of only a few cents per litre but it sells 1000's of litres every hour.

For any type of business, perhaps the most important type of budget is a CASHFLOW BUDGET. See link below.

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Firstly you will need to define what is used within the housekeeping process's. This normally will be cleaning materials, laundry, PPE (Personal Protective Equipment like gloves, disposable aprons etc) costs of machinery like vacuums, polishes , scrub dryers, brushes, mops, buckets as an example. Then consider the average use of replenish-ables like the cleaning fluid's, toilet rolls, mop heads, dusters and PPI - This will give you a cycle when these will require purchase as an estimate as there is no magic calculation. It will give you a cost from suppliers and this feeds in to the expense area, look at the machinery and requirements for annual services, rentals etc again these can be allocated across a budgets. Once you have established the expenditure you can work on creating a first draft budget. Every budget will require more than one attempt to get it reasonable as you will not get the sum you want but your are likely to get the sum allowed. You will need to have a business case ready for a budget that is likely to exceed what senior managers wish you to have i.e. machinery used is not coming to the end of it functioning life and is costing high values in repairs where a new machine will have warranty and save x amount over y period.

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