Zero-based budgeting…should be undertaken to eliminate swollen administrative costs and inequitable programs (Tom Wicker).
Useful english dictionary. 2012.
Performance Based Budgeting — Adopting Public Sector’s Performance Based Budgeting to the private sector using the CPM framework. [Philip G. Joyce and Susan Sieg, Using Performance Information for Budgeting: Clarifying the Framework and Investigating Recent State Experience,… … Wikipedia
Zero-based budgeting — is a technique of planning and decision making which reverses the working process of traditional budgeting. In traditional incremental budgeting, departmental managers justify only increases over the previous year budget and what has been already … Wikipedia
Zero-Based Budgeting - ZBB — A method of budgeting in which all expenses must be justified for each new period. Zero based budgeting starts from a zero base and every function within an organization is analyzed for its needs and costs. Budgets are then built around what is… … Investment dictionary
Activity-Based Budgeting - ABB — A method of budgeting in which the activities that incur costs in every functional area of an organization are recorded and their relationships are defined and analyzed. Activities are then tied to strategic goals, after which the costs of the… … Investment dictionary
zero-based budgeting — ➔ budgeting * * * zero based budgeting UK US (ABBREVIATION ZBB) noun [U] ACCOUNTING ► a method for business budgets in which all costs are considered again each year, and each department must say why it needs the amount it asks for: »Zero based… … Financial and business terms
zero-based budgeting — zero base budgeting or zero based budgeting noun A system in which the budget of an organization, department, etc is drawn up anew each year without reference to any previous budget • • • Main Entry: ↑zero … Useful english dictionary
zero-based budgeting — A management policy which calls on all programs to justify every aspect of their funding at the start of each year. The idea behind this policy is that nothing is sacred and all expenditures must be continually justified. ► “Zero based… … American business jargon
budgeting — bud‧get‧ing [ˈbʌdʒtɪŋ] noun [uncountable] ACCOUNTING FINANCE preparing budgets in order to plan and control the financial management of a person, business, or country: • The job includes business planning, budgeting and overseeing all of our… … Financial and business terms
activity based budgeting — ABB A budgeting methodology that focuses on an organization’s cost incurring activities and operations. See *activity based costing … Auditor's dictionary
activity-based budgeting — ABB Establishing the activities that incur costs in each function of an organization, defining the relationships between activities, and using the information to decide how much resource should be allowed for each activity in the budget. ABB also … Accounting dictionary
