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Your Budgets…
You have been given the information necessary to plan for either a Football team or your dream wedding.
Using the budget provided, spend!
Share your reasons with your partner.
Sophie’s dreaming again…
A budget is a plan of money coming in and going out over a period of time!
If Sophie wants her dress, she just needs to set out her budget and stick to it!
Budgets in a Business
A business has much more income and spends more money.
It still needs budgets though – why?
Its main source of income will be from _________.
A sales budget is required to plan the number of sales each month and the income from those sales.
SALES
Activity 2
1. Do you think the figures above are for an ice cream manufacturer or a toy manufacturer. Explain you answer.
2. The sales manager could give these figures to his salesman as “targets” for them to meet. How could this benefit the business.
Month Aug
Sept
Oct
Nov
Dec
Jan
Forecast sales income £000s
40 50 70 100 150 70
Activity 3 – Other types of budgets
Now we know the expected sales figures, this will help the business plan other budgets too.
Using the following words, please fill in the gaps on your sheet:
Capital expenditure
Labour
Purchase
Cash
Marketing
Answers
1. The _______ budget – if we know what we are likely to sell, we can work out what we
need to buy each month.
2. The _______ budget – if we are making goods, we can work out how many people to
employ and what the labour costs will be.
3. The ________ budget – when our sales are expected to be low, this tells us we need to
do more advertising in the months before this. This helps us plan our marketing.
4. The _______________ budget – if our sales are very high we might need to buy big items
like new premises, vans or machinery. This will help us work out how and when to pay
for these items.
5. The ______ budget – if we know our income (from the sales budgets), and our likely
spending (from all the other budgets), we can work out how much cash we are likely
to have each month.
purchase
labour
marketing
Capital expenditure
cash
Budgetary Control
A business needs to continuously check its performance against its planned budgets!
Budgetary control = checking performance against a plan.
Using it effectively will allow you to see where you are spending too much or not enough and make corrections as needed!
It is important so that you can see if there is a problem in advance and do something about it!