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Flattening The Organization: The Effect Of Organizational Reporting Structure On Budgeting Effectiveness
Oct 2008
This study investigates whether increasing a superior's span of control improves the effectiveness of the budgeting process. The authors characterize the superior's utility function as consisting...
Provided by Emory University (Goizueta)
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White Papers
How Firms' Capital Budgeting Methods Differ As Knightian Uncertainty And Controversy Vary: Bower And Brealey & Myers Are Both Right, Sometimes
Jul 2009
Capital budgeting is a contentious subject in both research and managerial practice. Financial economists such as Brealy & Myers advocate using NPV and related quantitative approaches that...
Provided by Duke University (Fuqua-Global)
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White Papers
Public-Private Partnerships And The Privatization Of Financing: An Incomplete Contracts Approach
Jul 2008
Governments have begun to embrace Public-Private Partnerships (P3s) as vehicles for providing public services. This paper considers the controversial question of when private financing of public...
Provided by Queen's University
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Webcasts
Top Five: Budgeting In A Downturn
Jan 2010
The ups and downs of the economy are forcing many entrepreneurs to watch their cash flow. This webcast provides five tips budgeting for in a downturn from the New York Enterprise Report.
Provided by American Express
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Case Studies
IT service management in an uncertain economy: Financial Services podcast
Aug 2010
This 9 minute podcast provides an overview of the results from a global survey recently conducted by IBM to identify the impact of economic uncertainty on the financial services industry. The...
Provided by IBM
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White Papers
Small Businesses Budgets: Simple Tips
Jun 2010
All businesses need to budget, but it is particularly true of small businesses because margins are often tighter and there are usually less funds available to juggle with. Managing a small...
Provided by SooperArticles
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White Papers
Imperfect Credibility And The Zero Lower Bound On The Nominal Interest Rate
Jun 2010
When the nominal interest rate reaches its zero lower bound, credibility is crucial for conducting forward guidance. The authors determine optimal policy in a New Keynesian model when the central...
Provided by Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
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White Papers
On the Solvency Of Nations: Are Global Imbalances Consistent With Intertemporal Budget Constraints?
Jun 2009
Theory predicts that a nation's stochastic intertemporal budget constraint is satisfied if net foreign assets (NFA) are integrated of any finite order, or if net exports (NX) and NFA satisfy an...
Provided by Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
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White Papers
Consumption Response To Expected Future Income
May 2009
This paper shows empirical evidence in favor of forward-looking household consumption - that consumption today depends directly on household-specific ex-ante expectations of future income. This...
Provided by Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
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White Papers
Monthly Estimates Of U.S. Cross-Border Securities Positions
Nov 2007
This paper reports monthly estimates of U.S. cross-border securities positions obtained by combining the (now) annual TIC surveys with monthly transactions data adjusted for various differences in...
Provided by Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
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White Papers
The Effectiveness Of Macroeconomic Commitment In Weak(er) Institutional Environments
Aug 2010
This paper analyzes the institutional conditions affecting the establishment and effectiveness of independent central banks and of budgetary institutions. It draws on the recent theory developed...
Provided by International Monetary Fund
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White Papers
Budget Consolidation: Short-Term Pain And Long-Term Gain
Jul 2010
The paper evaluates the costs and benefits of fiscal consolidation using simulations based on the IMFs global DSGE model GIMF. Over the longer run, well-targeted permanent reductions in budget...
Provided by International Monetary Fund
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White Papers
What Level Of Public Debt Could India Target?
Jan 2010
This paper discusses possible medium-term public debt targets for India, based on evidence from the economic literature on prudent levels of public debt and the feasibility for the country to meet...
Provided by International Monetary Fund
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White Papers
Top-Down Budgeting - An Instrument To Strengthen Budget Management
Nov 2009
This paper examines the rationale for a top-down approach to budget preparation and approval, and discusses some factors that have to be considered when reorienting the budget process along these...
Provided by International Monetary Fund
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White Papers
Advanced Public Financial Management Reforms In South East Europe
May 2009
This paper aims to clarify possible systemic bottlenecks to the introduction of advanced PFM reforms in the SEE countries. It relates key fiscal developments to PFM reform processes over the last...
Provided by International Monetary Fund
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White Papers
The Challenge Of Reforming Budgetary Institutions In Developing Countries
May 2009
The paper notes that the development of sound budgetary institutions in countries such as France, the U.K. and the U.S. has taken a very long time - 200 years or more - and is still evolving. It...
Provided by International Monetary Fund
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White Papers
Accrual Budgeting And Fiscal Policy
Apr 2009
Can an accrual budgeting system - a system in which budgetary spending authorizations to line ministries are formulated in accrual terms - serve the needs of good fiscal policy? If so, how must...
Provided by International Monetary Fund
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White Papers
Simple, Implementable Fiscal Policy Rules
Apr 2009
This paper analyzes the scope for systematic rules-based fiscal activism in open economies. Relative to a balanced budget rule, automatic stabilizers significantly improve welfare. But they...
Provided by International Monetary Fund
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White Papers
Stress Testing At The IMF
Jun 2008
The Austrian government is about to introduce a new fiscal management framework. The first step is to introduce a medium-term budgetary framework, including an expenditure rule. The paper focuses...
Provided by International Monetary Fund
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White Papers
Zero Corporate Income Tax In Moldova: Tax Competition And Its Implications For Eastern Europe
Jun 2008
A key challenge in government budgeting is to define an appropriate balance between current and capital expenditures. Budgeting for government capital investment also remains not wellintegrated...
Provided by International Monetary Fund
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White Papers
Financial Integration And Risk-Adjusted Growth Opportunities
Mar 2008
Under what conditions are budget institutions likely to be strengthened? The authors find that fiscal deficits do not help in focusing policymakers on undertaking reforms. To the contrary, the...
Provided by International Monetary Fund
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White Papers
Business Cycles In Small Developed Economies
Feb 2008
The authors extend the literature on budget deficits and interest rates in three ways: they examine both advanced and emerging economies and for the first time a large emerging market panel;...
Provided by International Monetary Fund
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White Papers
GCC Monetary Union And The Degree Of Macroeconomic Policy Coordination
Oct 2007
Coordinating macroeconomic policies is a pre-requisite to a successful launch of the common currency in the GCC countries. Relying on the Behavioral Equilibrium Exchange Rate approach as a...
Provided by International Monetary Fund
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White Papers
The Discipline-Enhancing Role Of Fiscal Institutions: Theory And Empirical Evidence
Jul 2007
This paper discusses the role of fiscal institutions, including budget rules and non-partisan agencies, in enhancing fiscal discipline. A dynamic model of fiscal policy shows that optimal...
Provided by International Monetary Fund
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White Papers
Sector Budget Support In Practice
Feb 2010
This is the synthesis report for a study on Sector Budget Support (SBS) in Practice for the Strategic Partnership with Africa (SPA). Programme-Based Approaches (PBAs) to aid delivery are a central...
Provided by Overseas Development Institute
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Resource Center
Windows Small Business Servers
Oct 2010
Experience Windows Small Business Server 2008 (SBS 2008) first-hand. Watch the videos, download the demos and launch the virtual labs to gain a comprehensive understanding of what SBS 2008 can do...
Provided by Microsoft
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White Papers
Budget Rigidity And Expenditure Efficiency In Slovenia
Jun 2007
This paper assesses the relative efficiency and flexibility of public spending in Slovenia compared to the advanced and new EU member states. Spending on health care, education, and social...
Provided by International Monetary Fund
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Whitepapers
DMI Informix - ebook - Discover Hassle-free data management with IBM Informix
Nov 2010
Today, unprecedented data volumes and shrinking budgets are stretching IT departments to their limits. Now, leading businesses are discovering that success can be derived from the right...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
The Business Rule approach to Payment Transformation: Lower Costs and Manage differentiated Service Levels with greater Flexibility
Dec 2010
Over time, legacy payment systems have become highly fragmented into silos that are costly to operate and maintain. As competitive and regulatory pressure intensifies globally, financial...
Provided by IBM
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White Papers
Business Analysis: Business Requirements Document
Nov 2008
Automatic Budget Reallocation (ABR) is a method by which the Financial Records System (FRS) automatically transfers budget dollars from predefined budget pools to specific line items within the...
Provided by University of Arizona
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Webcasts
Budgeting For Social Media: Insider Tips
Sep 2009
Social media is hot, but marketers are still struggling to determine where it belongs in their media plans. In this webcast few tips are provided from top digital agencies.
Provided by iMedia Communications
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White Papers
News Analysis: Budget Boosts Singapore As Top Private Wealth Center
Feb 2008
Singapore Minister for Finance Tharman Shanmugaratnam on February 15 delivered Singapore's fiscal 2008 budget. The budget enhances Singapore's allure as one of the top private wealth centers in...
Provided by Tax Analysts
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Whitepapers
Planning, Budgeting And Forecasting: Software Evaluation And Selection Guide
May 2009
This paper addresses the challenges of planning, budgeting and forecasting in a spreadsheet environment and highlights the advantages of using a software solution designed specifically for...
Provided by IBM
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White Papers
The Way Forward: 2010 Share Forum Financial Planning, Budgeting, And Forecasting
Oct 2010
Worldwide demand for products and services shrank dramatically, forcing companies to scramble and recalibrate their forecasts on a monthly and sometimes weekly basis. Some companies, including...
Provided by KPMG
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White Papers
Beyond Software: How To Budget The Cost Of ERP Implementation Services
Jan 2010
There are many reasons companies begin the search for new accounting/ERP software. Perhaps one have outgrown an entry level package like QuickBooks, or their proprietary system is no longer...
Provided by ERP Software Blog
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White Papers
The Dynamics Of Internal And External Debts: Further Evidence From The Middle East And North Africa
Jun 2009
This paper explores the dynamic relationship between budget and trade deficits (Twin Deficits) observed in several middle-eastern and North African economics in recent decades. From a policy...
Provided by Radford University
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White Papers
The TCO Advantages Of SaaS-Based Budgeting, Forecasting & Reporting
May 2010
Software-as-a-service (SaaS) eliminates the need for individual companies to buy, deploy and maintain IT infrastructure or application software. In the SaaS model, the vendor takes responsibility...
Provided by Hurwitz & Associates
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White Papers
Dynamic Linkages And Granger Causality Between Trade And Budget Deficits: Evidence From Africa
Apr 2008
This paper provides new evidence on the long-run relationship between trade and budget deficits in ten African countries over the quarterly period 1973:2 - 2005:4. In conformity with theoretical...
Provided by Texas A&M University
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White Papers
Budgeting And Forecasting 2010 Survey Results
Jan 2011
In the book The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable, author Nassim Taleb reminds us that human nature places too much weight on the odds that past events will repeat, and does not give...
Provided by Association for Financial Professionals
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White Papers
Fixed Costs, The Balanced-Budget Multiplier And Welfare
Sep 2008
In a two-sector model, where one of the sectors is monopolistically competitive and subject to increasing returns to scale but without love for variety, the author analyzes the effects of a...
Provided by University of Delhi
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White Papers
Understanding Cash Budgets
Jan 2010
Understanding cash budgets is a key to accurately and profitably coming up with a budget for your company. The technical definition of a cash budget is an estimate and a forecast of the estimated...
Provided by BusinessKnowledgeSource.com
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How To Test The Validity Of Your Budget Figures
Jan 2010
Key to having a successful budget is having valid budget figures within your budget. It is absolutely vital that you know how to test the validity of your budget figures so that your budget will...
Provided by BusinessKnowledgeSource.com
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How To Identify Discrepancies In Your Budget
Jan 2010
Coming up with and following a strict budget is central to the financial success of your company. After you come up with your budget, however, and even as you are following budget, you need to...
Provided by BusinessKnowledgeSource.com
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Looking At Your Business Finances From The Past Year To Help Plan The Future Budget
Jan 2010
When running a business, managing your money is very important. This requires a budget. But, how do you know how much money should be placed in your budget? You don't want to not have enough...
Provided by BusinessKnowledgeSource.com
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Creating A Feasible Budget For Your Upcoming Fiscal Year
Jan 2010
Your business needs to have a budget in order to keep your expenses under control. Everyone knows that a budget is necessary to keep spending under control and to make accurate predictions about...
Provided by BusinessKnowledgeSource.com
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White Papers
How To Budget For Your Small Business
Jan 2010
Starting a small business can be an exciting, yet stressful endeavor. The reason for the stress is that most small businesses fail within the first three years of opening. One way to make sure...
Provided by BusinessKnowledgeSource.com
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White Papers
How Do I Create A Budget For My Business?
Jan 2010
A budget gets a bad name because most people feel that a budget is a restraint on what you can spend. Although this may be true, a budget is also the map or plan to keep your business on the road...
Provided by BusinessKnowledgeSource.com
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Budgeting Tips
Jan 2010
When you begin preparing a budget for your business, you need to set aside time to base figures on reasonable expectations. One of the best places to start when working on your budget is to speak...
Provided by BusinessKnowledgeSource.com
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Creating A Budget Manual To Obtain Financing For Your Business
Jan 2010
To obtain financing for your small business lenders and investors are going to want to look at your budget manual. The reason for this is that your budget manual is going to give your investors...
Provided by BusinessKnowledgeSource.com
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Managers: Should Your PR Budget Stress Tactics Or Strategy?
Jan 2010
If public relations tactics like special events, brochures, broadcast plugs and press releases dominate your answer, you're missing the best PR has to offer. Such a budget would tell us that you...
Provided by ABC Article Directory
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Budgeting - Forecasting Profit And Cashflow For A Future Period
Jan 2010
Perhaps one of the most important tools for small business success is the financial budget. This is a forecast of the expected income and expenditure that will be generated by the operations of...
Provided by ABC Article Directory
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Pros & Cons Of Different Capital Budgeting Techniques
Mar 2009
The three capital budgeting techniques widely used today are the payback, Net Present Value (NPV), and Internal Rate of Return (IRR) methods. Each one of them has their own individual pros and...
Provided by Associated Content
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Budgeting Using The Envelope System Works
Jun 2009
For many people the word budget is like the word diet, they cringe at the thought. Getting on a budget is not only easy but it helps you to know where your money is going and how to stop the leaks...
Provided by Associated Content
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White Papers
Alternatives To Traditional Budgeting In Government
Jul 2009
Budgets, structures constructed to track and control the expenditure of funds, were first introduced into government finance as a means to prevent theft. This first important use of public...
Provided by Associated Content
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White Papers
Corporate Budgeting Process Pros And Cons
Feb 2010
Each department gets a say in the corporate budgeting process. This might make the company more responsive to individual departments' needs, and it might make department managers feel better about...
Provided by Associated Content
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White Papers
Budgeting And Forecasting
Sep 2007
The dictionary defines forecasting as predicting, calculating in advance, and conjecture as to something in the future. The dictionary further defines budgeting as an estimate of expected income...
Provided by Associated Content
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Budgeting Tips - Budgeting 101
Jul 2008
There is really only one way to get your spending under control. To create a budget! We all need to budget our money. This is some helpful budgeting 101 information. If you can follow the budget,...
Provided by Associated Content
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White Papers
How To Save Money Through Smart Budgeting
Dec 2008
Proper management of your daily, weekly, or monthly expenses is essential for your day-to-day survival and your future. Conflicts arise from unequal income expenses and failure to monitor exactly...
Provided by Associated Content
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What You Need To Know About Budgeting
Dec 2008
Budgets give financial direction. When you begin analyzing expenditures and isolating where your money is going, it becomes much easier to see where you can cut costs and minimize waste. More...
Provided by Associated Content
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White Papers
Renting An Apartment: Budgeting For Your Next Move
Jan 2009
Most savvy renters know not to start the apartment hunt without a number or price range in mind. Viewing luxury apartments that could never fit into your budget can be disheartening and dampen...
Provided by Associated Content
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White Papers
Many Parts Of An Income Statement: Part 1 Is Definitions And Comparisons Against Budget
Nov 2009
In identifying the parts of an Income Statement, part 1, the initial concern is definition of an Income Statement. An income statement is the measure of economic results of the business for a...
Provided by Associated Content
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White Papers
Utilize Your Business Budget Effectively
Jan 2010
Limited budget is one of the biggest challenges that new business must face. Most entrepreneurs choose to cut back advertising aspects of the business due to this limited budget issues. But...
Provided by ArticleSnatch.com
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White Papers
Smart Decision Making in the Era of New Financial Challenges
Jan 2010
An era of new financial challenges calls for innovative financial planning approaches. Monte Carlo modeling can help manage risk, improve forecasting, and drive growth in turbulent times. Read...
Provided by Oracle
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White Papers
Small Business Budget Understanding The Financial Structure Of A Venture
Oct 2008
Now is the perfect time to learn to budget for your small/home business. This paper gives a way to start a basic budgeting plan. Examine all income, financial statements, and review them...
Provided by Suite101
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White Papers
Small Business Budgeting - Financial Planning
Nov 2009
Business budgeting is important for maximizing profits and giving the company financial direction. The first step to creating a budget is the creation of the sales forecast. The forecast is an...
Provided by Suite101
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White Papers
Budgeting And Forecasting Financial Planning
Nov 2009
Many business professionals believe that creating a budget and forecast are a waste of time. The general consensus of these adversaries is that the future is impossible to predict, so why even...
Provided by Suite101
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White Papers
Financial Budgeting In Four Simple Steps: Free Budgeting Help
Apr 2009
As an entrepreneur, budgeting is an essential skill - no matter what kind of business being run, or how involved in day to day operations an entrepreneur is. Why? Because in order to know how much...
Provided by Suite101
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White Papers
How To Find Small Business Budgeting Software
Sep 2009
Business budgeting is a basic but essential process that allows businesses to attain many goals and keep track of expenses. How can business budgeting software help and is it really necessary for...
Provided by Suite101
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White Papers
The Purpose Of A Business Budget: Basic Budgeting And Planning Goals For Businesses
Jan 2008
Business budgeting is a basic and essential process that allows businesses to attain many goals in one course of action. There are several goals that many businesses seek to achieve (or should be...
Provided by Suite101
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Business Finance: Basic Guide To Capital Budgeting
Jan 2010
There may be only a few projects that your company can undertake when they first start up. This is why budgeting your money in the most efficient way is so important. If you choose unprofitable or...
Provided by Gaebler Ventures
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Budgeting For Small Businesses: Budgeting Mistakes
Jan 2010
Budgeting mistakes can be deadly. Wouldn't it be horrible if you did everything right to set your business on the path to success, but a few budgeting mistakes ultimately lead to your downfall?...
Provided by Gaebler Ventures
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Creating A Budget For A Business
Jan 2010
This paper covers the fundamentals of business budgeting. If you are not creating a business budget, you may be impeding on your chances of owning a successful business. Business budgeting is an...
Provided by Gaebler Ventures
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Budgeting To Increase Business Profit
Jan 2010
The answer is that simple. Businesses exist because they want to make profit. But it takes more for a business to just exist to actually make profit, let alone manage it. And usually, income and...
Provided by 1888articles.com
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White Papers
Calculating Costs: Budget Planning For Your Home Based Business
Jan 2010
One of the most important aspects of a work at home business plan is budget planning. In order to determine how much money you need to start and run your home business, you'll need to consider all...
Provided by Internet Brands
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White Papers
A Simple Budgeting System For Your New Home Business
Jan 2010
A simple budgeting system for your new home business will help you project and track of your cash flow. A basic budget for your business must list both income and expenses. When you start your...
Provided by Internet Brands
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White Papers
Improve Your Capital Budgeting Techniques
Jan 2010
Capital budgeting is not just a quantitative modeling exercise, however. The goal is creating a clear and simple picture of the benefits, costs, and risks associated with a possible business...
Provided by Microsoft
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White Papers
Budgeting and Forecasting - Best Practices
Feb 2008
One of the most serious challenges faced by financial professionals is that of providing accurate and reliable budgets and forecasts. Budgets in particular are key operational tools that provide...
Provided by Microsoft
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White Papers
How To Plan Your IT Budget
Jan 2010
Small business owners are accustomed to drawing up an annual budget for overhead and other operating expenses, but when it comes to IT planning the procedure is not always as straightforward....
Provided by Dun & Bradstreet
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White Papers
Preparing And Maintaining An Annual Budget
Jan 2010
Successful business owners don't simply prepare a budget and then put it on a shelf in their office; they use it frequently to manage their business and adjust it as necessary when conditions...
Provided by Dun & Bradstreet
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White Papers
Top Business Budgeting Mistakes
Jan 2010
Small businesses often skate by without a budget, or with one that's oversimplified or inaccurate. Next thing you know, the company is in a cash crisis or out of business. To create a solid budget...
Provided by Dun & Bradstreet
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White Papers
The Effectiveness Of Macroeconomic Commitment In Weak(er) Institutional Environments
Aug 2010
This paper analyzes the institutional conditions affecting the establishment and effectiveness of independent central banks and of budgetary institutions. It draws on the recent theory developed...
Provided by International Monetary Fund
-
White Papers
Budget Consolidation: Short-Term Pain And Long-Term Gain
Jul 2010
The paper evaluates the costs and benefits of fiscal consolidation using simulations based on the IMFs global DSGE model GIMF. Over the longer run, well-targeted permanent reductions in budget...
Provided by International Monetary Fund
-
White Papers
What Level Of Public Debt Could India Target?
Jan 2010
This paper discusses possible medium-term public debt targets for India, based on evidence from the economic literature on prudent levels of public debt and the feasibility for the country to meet...
Provided by International Monetary Fund
-
White Papers
Top-Down Budgeting - An Instrument To Strengthen Budget Management
Nov 2009
This paper examines the rationale for a top-down approach to budget preparation and approval, and discusses some factors that have to be considered when reorienting the budget process along these...
Provided by International Monetary Fund
-
White Papers
Advanced Public Financial Management Reforms In South East Europe
May 2009
This paper aims to clarify possible systemic bottlenecks to the introduction of advanced PFM reforms in the SEE countries. It relates key fiscal developments to PFM reform processes over the last...
Provided by International Monetary Fund
-
White Papers
The Challenge Of Reforming Budgetary Institutions In Developing Countries
May 2009
The paper notes that the development of sound budgetary institutions in countries such as France, the U.K. and the U.S. has taken a very long time - 200 years or more - and is still evolving. It...
Provided by International Monetary Fund
-
White Papers
Accrual Budgeting And Fiscal Policy
Apr 2009
Can an accrual budgeting system - a system in which budgetary spending authorizations to line ministries are formulated in accrual terms - serve the needs of good fiscal policy? If so, how must...
Provided by International Monetary Fund
-
White Papers
Simple, Implementable Fiscal Policy Rules
Apr 2009
This paper analyzes the scope for systematic rules-based fiscal activism in open economies. Relative to a balanced budget rule, automatic stabilizers significantly improve welfare. But they...
Provided by International Monetary Fund
-
White Papers
Stress Testing At The IMF
Jun 2008
The Austrian government is about to introduce a new fiscal management framework. The first step is to introduce a medium-term budgetary framework, including an expenditure rule. The paper focuses...
Provided by International Monetary Fund
-
White Papers
Zero Corporate Income Tax In Moldova: Tax Competition And Its Implications For Eastern Europe
Jun 2008
A key challenge in government budgeting is to define an appropriate balance between current and capital expenditures. Budgeting for government capital investment also remains not wellintegrated...
Provided by International Monetary Fund
-
White Papers
Financial Integration And Risk-Adjusted Growth Opportunities
Mar 2008
Under what conditions are budget institutions likely to be strengthened? The authors find that fiscal deficits do not help in focusing policymakers on undertaking reforms. To the contrary, the...
Provided by International Monetary Fund
-
White Papers
Business Cycles In Small Developed Economies
Feb 2008
The authors extend the literature on budget deficits and interest rates in three ways: they examine both advanced and emerging economies and for the first time a large emerging market panel;...
Provided by International Monetary Fund
-
White Papers
GCC Monetary Union And The Degree Of Macroeconomic Policy Coordination
Oct 2007
Coordinating macroeconomic policies is a pre-requisite to a successful launch of the common currency in the GCC countries. Relying on the Behavioral Equilibrium Exchange Rate approach as a...
Provided by International Monetary Fund
-
White Papers
The Discipline-Enhancing Role Of Fiscal Institutions: Theory And Empirical Evidence
Jul 2007
This paper discusses the role of fiscal institutions, including budget rules and non-partisan agencies, in enhancing fiscal discipline. A dynamic model of fiscal policy shows that optimal...
Provided by International Monetary Fund
-
White Papers
Sector Budget Support In Practice
Feb 2010
This is the synthesis report for a study on Sector Budget Support (SBS) in Practice for the Strategic Partnership with Africa (SPA). Programme-Based Approaches (PBAs) to aid delivery are a central...
Provided by Overseas Development Institute
-
Resource Center
Windows Small Business Servers
Oct 2010
Experience Windows Small Business Server 2008 (SBS 2008) first-hand. Watch the videos, download the demos and launch the virtual labs to gain a comprehensive understanding of what SBS 2008 can do...
Provided by Microsoft
-
White Papers
Budget Rigidity And Expenditure Efficiency In Slovenia
Jun 2007
This paper assesses the relative efficiency and flexibility of public spending in Slovenia compared to the advanced and new EU member states. Spending on health care, education, and social...
Provided by International Monetary Fund
-
Whitepapers
DMI Informix - ebook - Discover Hassle-free data management with IBM Informix
Nov 2010
Today, unprecedented data volumes and shrinking budgets are stretching IT departments to their limits. Now, leading businesses are discovering that success can be derived from the right...
Provided by IBM
-
Whitepapers
The Business Rule approach to Payment Transformation: Lower Costs and Manage differentiated Service Levels with greater Flexibility
Dec 2010
Over time, legacy payment systems have become highly fragmented into silos that are costly to operate and maintain. As competitive and regulatory pressure intensifies globally, financial...
Provided by IBM
-
White Papers
Business Analysis: Business Requirements Document
Nov 2008
Automatic Budget Reallocation (ABR) is a method by which the Financial Records System (FRS) automatically transfers budget dollars from predefined budget pools to specific line items within the...
Provided by University of Arizona
-
Webcasts
Budgeting For Social Media: Insider Tips
Sep 2009
Social media is hot, but marketers are still struggling to determine where it belongs in their media plans. In this webcast few tips are provided from top digital agencies.
Provided by iMedia Communications
-
White Papers
News Analysis: Budget Boosts Singapore As Top Private Wealth Center
Feb 2008
Singapore Minister for Finance Tharman Shanmugaratnam on February 15 delivered Singapore's fiscal 2008 budget. The budget enhances Singapore's allure as one of the top private wealth centers in...
Provided by Tax Analysts
-
Whitepapers
Planning, Budgeting And Forecasting: Software Evaluation And Selection Guide
May 2009
This paper addresses the challenges of planning, budgeting and forecasting in a spreadsheet environment and highlights the advantages of using a software solution designed specifically for...
Provided by IBM
-
White Papers
The Way Forward: 2010 Share Forum Financial Planning, Budgeting, And Forecasting
Oct 2010
Worldwide demand for products and services shrank dramatically, forcing companies to scramble and recalibrate their forecasts on a monthly and sometimes weekly basis. Some companies, including...
Provided by KPMG
-
White Papers
Beyond Software: How To Budget The Cost Of ERP Implementation Services
Jan 2010
There are many reasons companies begin the search for new accounting/ERP software. Perhaps one have outgrown an entry level package like QuickBooks, or their proprietary system is no longer...
Provided by ERP Software Blog
-
White Papers
The Dynamics Of Internal And External Debts: Further Evidence From The Middle East And North Africa
Jun 2009
This paper explores the dynamic relationship between budget and trade deficits (Twin Deficits) observed in several middle-eastern and North African economics in recent decades. From a policy...
Provided by Radford University
-
White Papers
The TCO Advantages Of SaaS-Based Budgeting, Forecasting & Reporting
May 2010
Software-as-a-service (SaaS) eliminates the need for individual companies to buy, deploy and maintain IT infrastructure or application software. In the SaaS model, the vendor takes responsibility...
Provided by Hurwitz & Associates
-
White Papers
Best Practices for Budgeting, Forecasting and Reporting
Dec 2005
By combining best practices with technology, companies can consistently deliver a more timely, accurate, and flexible plan; strengthen the link between strategic objectives and operational and...
Provided by Adaptive Planning
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White Papers
Dynamic Linkages And Granger Causality Between Trade And Budget Deficits: Evidence From Africa
Apr 2008
This paper provides new evidence on the long-run relationship between trade and budget deficits in ten African countries over the quarterly period 1973:2 - 2005:4. In conformity with theoretical...
Provided by Texas A&M University
-
White Papers
Budgeting And Forecasting 2010 Survey Results
Jan 2011
In the book The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable, author Nassim Taleb reminds us that human nature places too much weight on the odds that past events will repeat, and does not give...
Provided by Association for Financial Professionals
-
White Papers
Fixed Costs, The Balanced-Budget Multiplier And Welfare
Sep 2008
In a two-sector model, where one of the sectors is monopolistically competitive and subject to increasing returns to scale but without love for variety, the author analyzes the effects of a...
Provided by University of Delhi
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White Papers
Time Budgets And Time Use
Mar 2009
Time use studies are sometimes loosely referred to as time budget studies (this term is more properly applied to calculations of simple activity totals from the diary's main activity field,...
Provided by Fedral Ministry Of Education And Research
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Public Budget Composition, Fiscal(De)Centralization, And Welfare
Jul 2007
The authors present a dynamic two-region model with overlapping generations. There are two types of productive public expenditure, education and infrastructure funding, and governments decide...
Provided by University of Konstanz
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Budget Allocation For Permanent And Contingent Capacity Under Stochastic Demand
Apr 2010
The authors develop a model of budget allocation for permanent and contingent workforce under stochastic demand. The level of permanent capacity is determined at the beginning of the horizon and...
Provided by Technische Universiteit Eindhoven
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Automatic Fiscal Stabilizers In Sweden 1998-2009
Apr 2009
In this paper, the author examines how the responsiveness of the Swedish public budget to business-cycle conditions has developed between 1998 and 2009. The author documents substantial changes in...
Provided by Stockholm School of Economics
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Why Do Budgets Received By State Prosecutors Vary Across Districts In The United States?
Oct 2007
This paper examines the determinants of the budgets that the severely resource constrained state prosecutors of the United States receive from mostly the local governments. In doing so, this paper...
Provided by Indiana University
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Late Budgets
Apr 2010
The budget forms the legal basis of government spending. If a budget is not in place at the beginning of the fiscal year, planning as well as current spending are jeopardized and government...
Provided by University of Copenhagen
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The Cross-Section Of Hurdle Rates For Capital Budgeting: An Empirical Analysis Of Survey Data
Feb 2011
Whereas Poterba and Summers (1995) find that firms use hurdle rates that are unrelated to their CAPM betas, Graham and Harvey (2001) find that 74% of their survey firms use the CAPM for capital...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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Soft Budgets And Renegotiations In Public-Private Partnerships
Aug 2009
Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) are increasingly used to provide infrastructure services. Even though PPPs have the potential to increase efficiency and improve resource allocation, contract...
Provided by Yale University
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Budget Allocation And The Revealed Social Rate Of Time Preference For Health
Oct 2009
Appropriate decisions based on cost-effectiveness evaluations of health care technologies depend upon the cost-effectiveness threshold and its rate of growth as well as some social rate of time...
Provided by University of York
