Business Budgeting

Budget Your Life Like a Business

by Chris on June 2, 2012

We can learn a lot about budgeting and being successful financially if we look to the way that businesses are run.  Yes, there is a lot of red tape that makes many businesses and corporations lose productivity, but the way that they stay organized financially, have a plan, and optimize their profits while investing in [...]

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Baseline Budgeting and Whether it Works

by Chris on May 12, 2012

Baseline budgeting is also called incremental budgeting.  It is the opposite of zero-based budgeting and is one of the three common ways that businesses budget.  Recently, this type of budgeting has been in the news a lot.  That’s because this is the type of budgeting that goes on in Washington DC. This type of budgeting does NOT [...]

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When it comes to budgeting for businesses, zero-based budgeting is perhaps the most popular technique.  It is the opposite of incremental budgeting and baseline budgeting. When you create a zero based budget for your business, you start from ground zero and analyze how much money you’ll need to run your business according to your overall [...]

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How Businesses Use Incremental Budgeting

by Chris on April 19, 2012

Incremental budgeting is something that businesses have been using for years.  It is a type of budget process that works best for established companies that don’t face a lot of change.  Like all budgeting processes for business, incremental budgeting can be used in conjunction with other budgeting and spending control techniques, and can be modified [...]

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The Three Types of Business Budgeting

by Chris on April 19, 2012

The more I learn about budgeting, the more I learn that there are just thousands of ways to do it.  I’ve also learned that there are a lot of similarities between budgeting for your household and budgeting for a business. With that said, let’s take a look at some basic forms of business budgeting.  I vaguely [...]

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