what is the meaning of the budget? what is the purpose of preparing the budget?
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An estimation of the revenue and expenses over a specified future period of time. A budget can be made for a person, a family or a group of people, a business, government, country or multinational organization or just about anything else that makes and spends money. Budgets are a microeconomic concept that show the tradeoff made when one good is exchanged for another. \n\nThe purpose varies depending on what the budget is prepared for, i.e. construction project, curriculum implementation, supply purchasing, etc.
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Payment\n\nMain Entry:   expense \nPart of Speech:   noun \nDefinition:   cost \nSynonyms:   amount, assessment, bite*, bottom line*, budget, capital, charge, consumption, debit, debt, decrement, deprivation, disbursement, duty, expenditure, forfeit, forfeiture, insurance, investment, liability, loan, loss, mortgage, nut, obligation, outdo*, outlay, output, overhead, payment, payroll, price, price tag, rate, responsibility, risk, sacrifice, spending, sum, surcharge, tariff, toll, upkeep, use, value, worth \nAntonyms:   payment \nNotes:   expenditure refers to an actual outlay of money or goods, whereas expense has a more general sense, a charge or cost of goods or property; we have expenses, but we make expenditures \nSource:   Roget's New Millennium™ Thesaurus, First Edition (v 1.3.1)\nCopyright © 2006 by Lexico Publishing Group, LLC. All rights reserved.\n* = informal or slang
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well, governments need to plan, or at least try to plan, things such as:\n- future needs for transport (especially public)\n- future needs for school classes\n- future needs for hospital beds\n- future electricity consumption, water consumption, etc\n\nand so on\n\nclearly, to judge by our daily experiences, either they don't do any decent quality population forecasting, or at any rate they don't use the data from it to plan ahead
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You are asking questions about things that are not paid for out of the same budgets.\n\nThe United States federal goverments first, and basically only job when this country was created was defense.  \n\nUntil recent times - Defense was the largest percentage of the total federal budget by far.\n\nAs time has gone on other things have been added to it. Including what takes up the majority of the Federal Budget these days.  These things that have been added are "required spending" budget items.  These are things that no matter what - they have to be paid.  This includes Social Security, Medicare, Medicade, interest, payroll, and other such expenses that deal with the day to day operation of the Federal government.\n\nDefense comes out of what is called discretionary spending.  As would anything the Feds spend on Education.\n\nTo answer your question directly - defense is about 20 percent, and Medicare/Medicaid (health) combined are going to also be about 20 percent.  Education is going to come out of the rest of the discretionary budget - not sure what it is off the top of my head - but its a very small percentage.\n\nSource 2 below has the info from the above paragraph - source 1 is the page that pdf came from, which has alot of other charts and graphs put out the US House of Representatives.\n\nSource 3 covers some historical data on the Defense spending.\n\nDefense is only paid for by the Feds.\n\nEducation on the other hand is going to be paid for by each state.  So to answer that question - you would have to look at each state.  There is many other Health Care programs that are paid for at the state level also - again - not something that can be answered here - way to many different things.\n\nBasically - the Feds pay for Social Security, Defense, Medicare, Medicaid, and things that cross states borders like Interstates.  They also spend large chunks of change on things like Disaster Relief.  \n\nStates pay for Education.\n\n.. and for the most part - employers pay for Health Care in this country.
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A budget surplus means that there is extra money in the Government coffers at the end of a defined, usually fiscal period.  That equates to either a potential tax decrease or more money available to spend on the public good.  A deficit of course is the opposite.
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Bound's hubby here:\n\nThe ATF budget is part of the federal budget which is funded through federal income tax, federal excise taxes and revenue tariffs. Funds that originate from the sale of confiscated property can be used to suppliment salaries or fund law enforncement operations. \n\nGood luck.
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Depends on the situation... above answers are correct.  It can also mean creating a future financial forecast, cash flow, budget, profit/loss statement, balance sheet, etc.  Basically it's taking the financial numbers you have (client has given you) and trying to see if you can work with them (example - if you are a banker and they want a loan -- you figure out if they qualify).
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Financial management is about putting the right amount of money into the right needs. Or budgeting the amount that is neccessary to satisfy the needs of the groups or individuals. Poor funding is when they dont do the reasearch and dont understand the fundamentals of supplying the money into places where it is not appropriate. For example, its poor funding to put money into compensations rather tnan fixing or developing new systems that can benifit in the long term.
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Estimate your income and your expenses. For your expenses, determine the things you NEED to pay (rent, utilities, food, etc.) and then budget what is left for other things (savings, entertainment, clothing, etc.).
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A good budget is one you that makes sense for you.\n\nFirst you need something to save for, new shoes, car, vacation, retirement etc.\n\nNow you have items to save for place a dollar value next to them and a time frame. For example: New shoes $120 12 months = $10 a month.\n\nYou will have in your budget items that are considered 'fixed' items - like rent/mortgage, utilities, gas/transportation, etc.\n\nLine your fixed items up, then your goals under that, next to all of them will be your monthly figure. Once you have a total, you subtract that from your net(in pocket) pay.\n\nYou will either have money left over OR you will not have enough - this is when you need to rework your budget - for example: New shoes $120 2 years (24 months) = $5 and so on.\n\nI have used new shoes, but of course it can be anything that is important to YOU.\n\nPlease consider, as part of your budget, money for emergencies. Six to twelve months of FIXED living expenses (or somewhere in between ) is a good number. This (emergency fund) may take you a while, but it will be well worth it when you have an emergency.\n\nIf you have a preadsheet program, Xcel or any other, this will make the calculations easier - as it will recalculate as you change items.\n\nGood luck!
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because there is tax money in it for the government...\nwhy else does the government do anything?
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to do a budget you need to look at all of your outgoing expenses.... \n\nRent-----\n\nElectric ---\n\nGas ----\n\nPhone -----\n\nGroceries ----\n\nChild Care ----\n\nInternet Service  ---\n\nCar Payment -----\n\nCar Insurance----\n\nCredit Cards -----\n\nMedical Insurance ---\n\nExpected Monthly Medical Expenses ----\n\nSavings ----\n\n~~if you need more help than this click on my avatar, and either IM me or e-mail me with a place where i could send an attachment, i have a sample budget form i could send you.~~
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what does 'due chance' mean?\n\nthe us are running a massive budget deficit\nwhich has created an unnatural demand\non the world markets for all kinds of goods \nand services,hence bidding the prices\nup-if they don't correct fairly soon,1920's\nhere we come\nprobability does not come into this i fear\n-it is a matter of running a more balanced\nbudget in the us and  the uk\n'growth' is not generated by \ngovernment spending-it has to be\nearned\n\ni hope that this helps
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Quantity take off is estimating  how much material to buy for a job. so you will minimize the waste without having any shortage.\n\nAt the same time the material you want to buy may be available only in a certain minimum size or quantity.\n\nAlso you want to buy  it just in time for its use so you would not tie up money and space.\n\nYou also must be familiar with the construction process, so you make rooms for some thing anticipated and also the unanticipated.
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It means anticipating your Incomes and consequently planning your expenditure.
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One that covers everything -- and often one that is used in all circumstances.  It is not particularly a legal phrase.  You see it also in phrases like -- "blanket approval"  -- blanket approval to spend the limit of the budget menas you have approval to spend that already, no matter the circumstances.
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To manage, deal with, or be responsible for currency.\n\n:)