In order to know about Master Budget we must be aware of what
is budget and why it is used in every organization after this we can easily
understand the explanation of Master Budget.
Budget=
Budget can be explained in many ways for instance a budget
is a financial planning for achieving organizational goals. It is the activity
which can also be described as the planning of meeting maximum expenditures with
the help of available resources.
The process through which budget is prepared is called budgeting.
Every consumer uses available resources to meet expenditures and to fulfill
basic and other needs according to his/her budget
line.
Master Budget=
For every department of an organization specific budget is
prepared like sales budget for sales department, production budget for
production department, marketing budget, operating expense budget, capital
expense budget and so on.
The Master Budget involves long term plan’s set by
management of an organization in order to attain all the goals of organization.
It consist of all the budgets (sales, production, marketing and many other
budgets) of an organization.
Each budget information is utilize by the management(financial
experts) for preparing another budget for example production budget (prepared for units to be required and produced.)
may be connected with sales budget (estimated
units sales and estimated units price) likewise other budgets are made by
management of an organization.
In other words every budget which is prepared in Master Budget
are connected with each other which is then further utilized by financial experts
for preparing cash-flow statement, income statement and balance sheet etc. of
an organization.
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