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Budgeting
An important Project Management Tool
What is a budget?
• A Plan
• A Limit
• A Schedule
• A Reality Check
• An Allocation
Budget – a definition
“A planned expression of money”
Wright.D 1994 “A practical foundation in costing” Routledge
For a defined activity
Shows;
• Income & Expenditure
• Total estimated costs
• Defined period of time
Another definition
A budget process is a system of rules
governing the decision-making that
leads to a budget, from its formulation,
through its legislative approval, to its
execution.
Karl-Martin, Ehrhart, Roy Gardner, Jürgen von Hagen, and Claudia Keser
Budget Processes: Theory and Experimental Evidence, November 2000
More definitions
Budget = Quantitative expression of a plan
Budgets involve – Planning
&
Control
Forecasting
&
Planning
Control
&
Evaluation
Budgeting in Context
Historic
Information
Evaluating
Performance
Controlling
operations
Forecasting
&
Planning
Plus Effects
of Outside
Environment
Future
Inform
ation
Current
Inform
ation
Current
Operating
Data
A budget helps
Want
Need
can
Budget
Why use a budget?
• Stay within a limit
• Control
• Forecasting
• Delegate
• Prioritise Wants, Organise Needs,
• Within the realm of what we Can
Types of budgeting
There are three common budgeting methods:
• Top-down Budgeting
• Bottom-up Budgeting
• Iterative Budgeting
Top Down Budgeting
Top-Down Budgeting is the term given
to a budgeting process based on
estimating the cost of higher level tasks
first and using these estimates to
constrain the estimates for lower level
tasks
Top Down Budgeting
A crucial factor for successfully
implementing this method for estimating
budgets is the experience and
judgement of those involved in
producing the overall budget estimate.
Top Down Budgeting
• Organisations need the ability to allow:
• Financial Managers to establish centralised
budgets to control organisation spending.
• Project Managers to establish projects
budgets that consume the centralised
organisation budget and control project
spending.
• Takes less time
• Promotes upper-level commitment
• Involves no multilevel participation
• Lower management better understands
what upper management expects
• Presented down the ladder
Top Down Budgeting
Top Down Budgeting
• Disadvantages
• Translating long-range budgets into
short-range budgets.
• Problems scheduling projects in a "sub-
optimal way" to meet the strategic goals
Result of top management's limited
knowledge of specifics of project tasks
and activities
Top Down Budgeting
• Disadvantages
• Competition for funds among lower-level
managers, try to secure adequate funding for
their operations.
• May cause unhealthy competition.
This process is a zero sum game--one
person's or area's gain is another's loss.
• Subordinate managers often feel that they
have insufficient budget allocations to
achieve the objectives
Top Down Budgeting
• Advantages
• Aggregate budget is quite accurate, even
though some individual activities subject to
large error
• Budgets are stable as a percent of total
allocation and the statistical distribution of
the budget is also stable leading to high
predictability
• Small costly tasks don’t need to be identified
early in this process - factored into overall
estimate
Bottom Up Budgeting
Sometimes called Zero Based Budgeting
• Bottom-up budgeting begins with identifying
all the constituent tasks that are involved in
implementing a project and working out the
resources and funding required by each
Bottom Up Budgeting
• Provides the opportunity to create
organisation level budgets by rolling up
project budgets
• Create centralised project level budgets from
their sub-project budgets (WBS)
Bottom Up Budgeting
• This method of budgeting provides the
following benefits:
• Project Managers have the flexibility to
define their project budgets
independently
• Financial Managers have the ability to
centrally review the total project budget/s
Bottom up budgeting
• Takes more timeTakes more time
• Involves cross-section of the organisationInvolves cross-section of the organisation
• Presented up the ladderPresented up the ladder
• Seeks participation at all levelsSeeks participation at all levels
• Encourages commitment to the planEncourages commitment to the plan
Bottom Up Budgeting
• Disadvantage
• Top management has limited influence
over the budgeting process,
• Individual tend to overstate their
resource needs because they suspect
that higher management will probably
cut all budgets by the same percentage
Bottom Up Budgeting
• Disadvantage
• More persuasive managers sometimes
get a disproportionate share of
resources
• A significant portion of budget building
is in the hands of the junior personnel in
the organisation
• Sometimes critical activities are missed
and left unbudgeted
Bottom Up Budgeting
• Advantage
• Is in the accuracy of the budgets for
individual tasks
• Clear flow of information
• Use of detailed data available at project
management level as basic source of cost,
schedule, and resource requirement
information.
• Participation in the process leads to
ownership and acceptance
Iterative Budgeting
Iterative – to repeat or do again
A combination of top-down and bottom-up
budget building
Higher project level estimated (top down)
Lower level costed (bottom up)
The two costs negotiated and reconciled
Iterative Budgeting
• Disadvantage
• Is in the relative inefficiency and time
consuming nature of the negotiations
over the budgets.
• Process may not work well when
communication channels are either
informal or blocked between lower-level
managers and senior management
Iterative Budgeting
• Advantage
• It promotes employee involvement and
stimulates a high degree of information
flow between those involved in the
project at different levels
• Both senior management and lower
level managers closer to the actual
process participate in the budgeting
process
Top Down vs. Bottom Up
• Top-down Bottom-up
• Problems of Bottom-up Budgeting
• Difficult to control aggregate spending
• Allocations may not be optimal
• Hard to keep multi-year perspective
Top Down & Bottom Up Compared
• Bottom-up • Top-down
- Annual - Multi-year
- Time consuming - Delegated authority
- Ownership of proposals is - Creates joint ownership of
specific proposals
- Reactive - Proactive
Activity Orientated Budget
• The traditional budget is activity based
• Individual expenses classified and
assigned to basic budget lines e.g.
phone, materials, personnel, clerical,
utilities, direct labour, etc
• Diffused control so widely that it was
frequently non-existent
Task Orientated Budget
• Also known as Program Budgeting
• Aggregates income and expenditures
across programs (projects)
• The project has its own budget
Task Orientated Budget
• Pure project organisation, the budgets
of all projects are aggregated to the
highest organisational level
• Functional organisation
income/expense for each project are
shown
Planning Programming
Budgeting System (PPBS)
• The system focuses on funding those
projects that will bring the greatest
progress toward organisational goals for
the least cost
• Basically a Program and Planning
Budgeting System
Planning Programming
Budgeting System (PPBS)
• Identification of goals and objectives for
each major area of activity - planning
• Analysis of the programs proposed to
obtain organizational objectives -
programming
• Estimation of the total costs for each
project, including indirect costs. Time
phasing of costs is detailed.
Planning Programming
Budgeting System (PPBS)
• Final analysis of alternative projects in
terms of costs, expected costs,
expected benefits, and expected project
lives.
• Cost/benefit analyses are performed for
each program so programs can be
compared with each other and a
portfolio of projects can be selected for
funding
Budget Planning linked to
Project Activity
• Only way a detailed budget can be
produced
• Can monitor budget usage against
project activity
• Can be done when the project schedule
has been determined
Completion Times, Project
Activities, Costs
• Direct relationship of these items
• Will affect the final budgeted figure
• Is a “trade off”
Budgetary Control
The ability to control anticipated
expenditures for your project using a
project cost budget.
Budgetary Control
The Projects Budgetary Controls
feature includes the following:
• Flexible Setup of Controls
• Defines Control Amounts
• Defines Control Levels
• Funds Check - Performs the available
funds verifications.
• Maintenance of Available Balances -
Maintains the available balance for each
project budget line.
Budgetary Controls
• Actual Transactions;
are recorded project costs.
Examples include labour, expense report,
usage and miscellaneous costs.
• Commitment Transactions;
are anticipated project costs.
Examples include purchase requisitions and
purchase orders or contract commitments.
Features of an effective budget
1. Accurate forecasting
2. Based on organisational goals
3. Information is timely and accurate
4. Formed with multilevel input
5. Regular reviews are built-in
Problems with budgeting
• The process is too long
• There is a lot of game playing
• Business decisions change but the
budget does not
• People in charge of budget are held
accountable in areas where they have
no responsibility
• Applying an arbitrary percentage to
prior period actual
Analysing Variance
• Budget deviation analysis (variance
analysis) regularly compares what you
expected or planned to earn and spend
with what you actually spent and
earned.
• Variation analysis can help greatly
when detecting how well you’re tracking
your plans, how much to accurately
budget in the future, where there might
be upcoming problems in spending.
Example of a variance report
Date: June 30, 2006
Account: Product Development MONTH TO DATE
ACCOUNT REF. ACTUAL BUDGET VARIANCE %
SALARIES 5025 £48,000 £43,750 - £4,375 - 10
TRAVEL 6442 £1,500 £1,200 - £300 - 25
SUPPLIES 5320 £500 £700 £200 28.5
Benefits to checking variance
• Understand the reason for the
differences
• Prepare a more accurate budget in the
future
• Evaluate budget goals
• Isolate problems
• Identify weak areas
• Motivate managers
• Communicate with all levels
• Forecast
Response to budget warnings
1. Freeze spending
2. Freeze activity
3. Put off “unnecessary” projects activity
4. Re-schedule/cost your project
5. Downsize your project

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Budgeting

  • 2. What is a budget? • A Plan • A Limit • A Schedule • A Reality Check • An Allocation
  • 3. Budget – a definition “A planned expression of money” Wright.D 1994 “A practical foundation in costing” Routledge For a defined activity Shows; • Income & Expenditure • Total estimated costs • Defined period of time
  • 4. Another definition A budget process is a system of rules governing the decision-making that leads to a budget, from its formulation, through its legislative approval, to its execution. Karl-Martin, Ehrhart, Roy Gardner, Jürgen von Hagen, and Claudia Keser Budget Processes: Theory and Experimental Evidence, November 2000
  • 5. More definitions Budget = Quantitative expression of a plan Budgets involve – Planning & Control Forecasting & Planning Control & Evaluation
  • 6. Budgeting in Context Historic Information Evaluating Performance Controlling operations Forecasting & Planning Plus Effects of Outside Environment Future Inform ation Current Inform ation Current Operating Data
  • 8. Why use a budget? • Stay within a limit • Control • Forecasting • Delegate • Prioritise Wants, Organise Needs, • Within the realm of what we Can
  • 9. Types of budgeting There are three common budgeting methods: • Top-down Budgeting • Bottom-up Budgeting • Iterative Budgeting
  • 10. Top Down Budgeting Top-Down Budgeting is the term given to a budgeting process based on estimating the cost of higher level tasks first and using these estimates to constrain the estimates for lower level tasks
  • 11. Top Down Budgeting A crucial factor for successfully implementing this method for estimating budgets is the experience and judgement of those involved in producing the overall budget estimate.
  • 12. Top Down Budgeting • Organisations need the ability to allow: • Financial Managers to establish centralised budgets to control organisation spending. • Project Managers to establish projects budgets that consume the centralised organisation budget and control project spending.
  • 13. • Takes less time • Promotes upper-level commitment • Involves no multilevel participation • Lower management better understands what upper management expects • Presented down the ladder Top Down Budgeting
  • 14. Top Down Budgeting • Disadvantages • Translating long-range budgets into short-range budgets. • Problems scheduling projects in a "sub- optimal way" to meet the strategic goals Result of top management's limited knowledge of specifics of project tasks and activities
  • 15. Top Down Budgeting • Disadvantages • Competition for funds among lower-level managers, try to secure adequate funding for their operations. • May cause unhealthy competition. This process is a zero sum game--one person's or area's gain is another's loss. • Subordinate managers often feel that they have insufficient budget allocations to achieve the objectives
  • 16. Top Down Budgeting • Advantages • Aggregate budget is quite accurate, even though some individual activities subject to large error • Budgets are stable as a percent of total allocation and the statistical distribution of the budget is also stable leading to high predictability • Small costly tasks don’t need to be identified early in this process - factored into overall estimate
  • 17. Bottom Up Budgeting Sometimes called Zero Based Budgeting • Bottom-up budgeting begins with identifying all the constituent tasks that are involved in implementing a project and working out the resources and funding required by each
  • 18. Bottom Up Budgeting • Provides the opportunity to create organisation level budgets by rolling up project budgets • Create centralised project level budgets from their sub-project budgets (WBS)
  • 19. Bottom Up Budgeting • This method of budgeting provides the following benefits: • Project Managers have the flexibility to define their project budgets independently • Financial Managers have the ability to centrally review the total project budget/s
  • 20. Bottom up budgeting • Takes more timeTakes more time • Involves cross-section of the organisationInvolves cross-section of the organisation • Presented up the ladderPresented up the ladder • Seeks participation at all levelsSeeks participation at all levels • Encourages commitment to the planEncourages commitment to the plan
  • 21. Bottom Up Budgeting • Disadvantage • Top management has limited influence over the budgeting process, • Individual tend to overstate their resource needs because they suspect that higher management will probably cut all budgets by the same percentage
  • 22. Bottom Up Budgeting • Disadvantage • More persuasive managers sometimes get a disproportionate share of resources • A significant portion of budget building is in the hands of the junior personnel in the organisation • Sometimes critical activities are missed and left unbudgeted
  • 23. Bottom Up Budgeting • Advantage • Is in the accuracy of the budgets for individual tasks • Clear flow of information • Use of detailed data available at project management level as basic source of cost, schedule, and resource requirement information. • Participation in the process leads to ownership and acceptance
  • 24. Iterative Budgeting Iterative – to repeat or do again A combination of top-down and bottom-up budget building Higher project level estimated (top down) Lower level costed (bottom up) The two costs negotiated and reconciled
  • 25. Iterative Budgeting • Disadvantage • Is in the relative inefficiency and time consuming nature of the negotiations over the budgets. • Process may not work well when communication channels are either informal or blocked between lower-level managers and senior management
  • 26. Iterative Budgeting • Advantage • It promotes employee involvement and stimulates a high degree of information flow between those involved in the project at different levels • Both senior management and lower level managers closer to the actual process participate in the budgeting process
  • 27. Top Down vs. Bottom Up • Top-down Bottom-up • Problems of Bottom-up Budgeting • Difficult to control aggregate spending • Allocations may not be optimal • Hard to keep multi-year perspective
  • 28. Top Down & Bottom Up Compared • Bottom-up • Top-down - Annual - Multi-year - Time consuming - Delegated authority - Ownership of proposals is - Creates joint ownership of specific proposals - Reactive - Proactive
  • 29. Activity Orientated Budget • The traditional budget is activity based • Individual expenses classified and assigned to basic budget lines e.g. phone, materials, personnel, clerical, utilities, direct labour, etc • Diffused control so widely that it was frequently non-existent
  • 30. Task Orientated Budget • Also known as Program Budgeting • Aggregates income and expenditures across programs (projects) • The project has its own budget
  • 31. Task Orientated Budget • Pure project organisation, the budgets of all projects are aggregated to the highest organisational level • Functional organisation income/expense for each project are shown
  • 32. Planning Programming Budgeting System (PPBS) • The system focuses on funding those projects that will bring the greatest progress toward organisational goals for the least cost • Basically a Program and Planning Budgeting System
  • 33. Planning Programming Budgeting System (PPBS) • Identification of goals and objectives for each major area of activity - planning • Analysis of the programs proposed to obtain organizational objectives - programming • Estimation of the total costs for each project, including indirect costs. Time phasing of costs is detailed.
  • 34. Planning Programming Budgeting System (PPBS) • Final analysis of alternative projects in terms of costs, expected costs, expected benefits, and expected project lives. • Cost/benefit analyses are performed for each program so programs can be compared with each other and a portfolio of projects can be selected for funding
  • 35. Budget Planning linked to Project Activity • Only way a detailed budget can be produced • Can monitor budget usage against project activity • Can be done when the project schedule has been determined
  • 36. Completion Times, Project Activities, Costs • Direct relationship of these items • Will affect the final budgeted figure • Is a “trade off”
  • 37. Budgetary Control The ability to control anticipated expenditures for your project using a project cost budget.
  • 38. Budgetary Control The Projects Budgetary Controls feature includes the following: • Flexible Setup of Controls • Defines Control Amounts • Defines Control Levels • Funds Check - Performs the available funds verifications. • Maintenance of Available Balances - Maintains the available balance for each project budget line.
  • 39. Budgetary Controls • Actual Transactions; are recorded project costs. Examples include labour, expense report, usage and miscellaneous costs. • Commitment Transactions; are anticipated project costs. Examples include purchase requisitions and purchase orders or contract commitments.
  • 40. Features of an effective budget 1. Accurate forecasting 2. Based on organisational goals 3. Information is timely and accurate 4. Formed with multilevel input 5. Regular reviews are built-in
  • 41. Problems with budgeting • The process is too long • There is a lot of game playing • Business decisions change but the budget does not • People in charge of budget are held accountable in areas where they have no responsibility • Applying an arbitrary percentage to prior period actual
  • 42. Analysing Variance • Budget deviation analysis (variance analysis) regularly compares what you expected or planned to earn and spend with what you actually spent and earned. • Variation analysis can help greatly when detecting how well you’re tracking your plans, how much to accurately budget in the future, where there might be upcoming problems in spending.
  • 43. Example of a variance report Date: June 30, 2006 Account: Product Development MONTH TO DATE ACCOUNT REF. ACTUAL BUDGET VARIANCE % SALARIES 5025 £48,000 £43,750 - £4,375 - 10 TRAVEL 6442 £1,500 £1,200 - £300 - 25 SUPPLIES 5320 £500 £700 £200 28.5
  • 44. Benefits to checking variance • Understand the reason for the differences • Prepare a more accurate budget in the future • Evaluate budget goals • Isolate problems • Identify weak areas • Motivate managers • Communicate with all levels • Forecast
  • 45. Response to budget warnings 1. Freeze spending 2. Freeze activity 3. Put off “unnecessary” projects activity 4. Re-schedule/cost your project 5. Downsize your project