Budgeting Basics 4e + Web Site

Description

A convenient and up-to-date reference tool for today's financialand nonfinancial managers in public practice and privateindustry

If the very thought of budgets pushes your sanity over thelimit, then this practical, easy-to-use guide is just what youneed. Budgeting Basics and Beyond, Fourth Edition equips youwith an all-in-one resource guaranteed to make the budgetingprocess easier, less stressful, and more effective. The new editioncovers rolling budgets (forecasts), activity-based budgeting, life-cycle budgeting. Cloud computing, Balanced Scorecard, budgeting for nonprofit organizations, business simulations forexecutive and management training, and much more

• Includes several new software packages, computer-based modelsand spreadsheet applications, including Value Chain Managementsoftware, Financial Planning and Performance software, Web 2.0, Cloud computing, and capital budgeting software
• Features case studies, illustrations, exhibits, forms, checklists, graphs, samples, and worked-out solutions to a widevariety of budgeting, planning, and control problems
• Offers financial planning and new types of financial modeling, variance analysis, Web-based budgeting, active budgetingilluminating "what-if" analyses throughout, spreadsheetapplications, break-even analysis, project analysis, and capitalbudgeting

Budgeting Basics and Beyond, Fourth Edition is apractical, easy-to-use problem-solver and up-to-date reference toolfor today's financial and nonfinancial managers in public practiceand private industry.

About the author

JAE K. SHIM, PHD, has authored or coauthored more than fifty professional and college finance and accounting books. Thirty of his publications have been translated into various languages such as Chinese, Spanish, Russian, Polish, Croatian, Italian, Japanese, and Korean. He is CEO of Delta Consulting Co., a consulting and training firm, and accounting and finance professor at California State University, Long Beach.

JOEL G. SIEGEL, PHD, CPA, is the author of over fifty books and has written hundreds of articles for accounting and financial journals. He was a member of the audit staff at Coopers & Lybrand. Dr. Siegel has acted as consultant in accounting issues to many organizations, including IT&T, Citicorp, and Person/Wolinsky CPA Review.

ALLISON I. SHIM, MS, is CFO of Delta Consulting Co. She is a finance expert and a PhD candidate at the University of California at Irvine.