Budgeting Is a Key Component in Management Short and Long Term Planning

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“Budgeting is a key component in management short and long term planning” Introduction Accounting is described by Koontz (2010) as a language that communicates economic information to people who have an interest in an organization: managers, shareholders and potential investors, employees, creditors and the government. In other words, accounting is concerned with providing both financial and non-financial information that will help decision makers to make good decision. Management accounting system provides information for planning, control and performance measurement. I will elaborate in further details of relationship on budgeting, short and long term planning in a business management. Budgeting Budgets are financial plans for the future and are a key component of planning. They identify objectives and the actions needed to achieve them. Budgeting plays a key role in planning, control, and decision making. A budget is an aid to management; it is not a substitute for management. A budget cannot operate or enforce itself. Companies can realize the benefits of budgeting only when managers carefully administer budgets (Westwood, 2004). Advantages According to Heitger and Mowen (2008), budgeting forces management to plan for the future. It encourages managers to develop an overall direction for the organization and develop future policies. It creates an early warning system for potential problems so that management can make changes before things get out of hand. Budgets provides information that can be used to improve decision making and set standards that can control the use of a company’s resources and motivate employees. It sets benchmarks that can be used to evaluate performance and also serves to communicate and coordinate the plans of the organization to each employee. Accordingly, employees can be aware of their particular role in achieving those

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