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BM 11 502 FI-106
Term | Definition |
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benchmark | something that provides a basis for comparison or evaluation |
budget | an estimate of income and expense for a specific period of time |
continuous budget | see rolling budget |
expense | the money that a business spends |
fiscal year | the 12- month period chosen by a business as its operating year that may or may not coincide with the calendar year |
income | the money received by resource owners and by producers for supplying goods and services to customers |
interrelated | having an effect on or depending upon one another |
manufacture | a type of producer that changes the shapes or forms of material so that they will be useful to consumers |
master budget | the overall budget of a company, made up of information from specialized budgets that are generated by individual departments |
retailer | a business that buys consumer goods or services and sells them to the ultimate consumer |
rolling budget | also called a continuous budget, a rolling budget replaces each passing month with a new month added to the end f the budget |
sales forecast | a prediction of future sales over a specific time |
service buisness | a type of business that performs intangible activities that satisfy the wants of consumer or industrial users |
specialized budget | a budget that reflects a particular department or activity of a company; specialized budgets are interrelated, often relying on one another for estimates of future activity |
variance | the difference between a budgeted amount and an actual amount |
zero-based budgeting | a method of budgeting that requires a manager to demonstrate the need for every expense instead of relying on figures from a previous period; in effect, each new budget begins at zero |