Building expense budgets for the publishing pipeline.

1. Los Angeles | London | New Delhi
Singapore | Washington DC
Managing a Publishing House
Post Graduate Diploma in
Publishing
Ambedkar University, New Delhi
Lesson 7 – Expense Budgets

2. What is a budget?
Budget: A quantitative (numerical) representation of
an estimated plan, in a defined period.
Three key elements:
●Number (value)
●Plan period
●Assumptions

3. Budget basics (Numbers)
Rupee value determining the cost of
●A person (salary, bonus, CTC)
●Co-related expenses: travel, food
●A service (typesetting, printing)
●An expense (book launch, sponsorship)
●Work in progress

4. Budget basics (Plan period)
Time expressed as money payable
●To a person working for a company (full year, part
year)
●Co-related expenses (monthly, quarterly, yearly)
●A service (monthly, quarterly, yearly)
●An expense (monthly, quarterly, yearly)
●Work in progress (until project completes)
●Allocation (when work is completed OR life of the
product)

5. Steps to creating a budget for
acquisitions (assumptions)

6. Steps to creating a budget for
editorial/production (assumptions)

7. Steps to creating a budget for marketing
(assumptions)

8. Sample budget document

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www.vivekmehra.in
vivek.mehra@sagepub.in
vivekmehra03@gmail.com
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