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PROJECT REPORT
ON
AT
KRISHAK BHARTI CO-OPERATIVE LTD.,
HAZIRA 2006-2007
PREFACE
is
incomplete
without
knowing
the
practical
ANALYSIS OF
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
INDEX
Sr. No
Particulars
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
growth
in
fertilizer
production
and
capacity 5060 MTPD Urea and 3500 MTPD Ammonia in Oman. Total equity
contribution of the Society is US $ 80 Million.
AGRICULTURE
As critical input in
crop production
Fertilizer use
promotes. It
promoters
agriculture growth
food security & rural
INDUSTRY
SERVICES
ENVIRONMENT
Fertilizer
industry Distribution network The proper use of
promotes Use of promotes domestic Fertilizers
can
gas, sulfur etc.
world trade; credit help in
Banking,
services,
Foreign Exchange and
of
research, 1-maintainance
saving
transport and storage soil structure
services.
2-prevention of soil
erosion
and
degradation.
3-control
deforestation
of
A. PRIMARY OBJECTIVE:
out the extent to which the concepts of scientific budgeting control are being
applied to them and introduce scientific and practical budgeting controlling.
COMPANY OVERVIEW
BIRTH OF KRIBHCO
Krishak Bharati Co-operative Limited KRIBHCO, a premier Cooperative Society for manufacture of fertilizer, registered under Multi-State
Cooperative Societies Act 1985, was promoted by the Govt. of India,
IFFCO, NCDC and other agricultural co-operative societies spread all over
the country.
Oil & Gas findings in Bombay High and South Basin triggered off the
birth of eight new generations fertilizer plants to fulfill ever-growing food
needs of the country. KRIBHCO was amongst the first two Projects in the
first phase.
KRIBHCO has setup a Fertilizer Complex to manufacture Urea,
Ammonia & Bio-fertilizers at Hazira in the State of Gujarat, on the bank of
river Tapi, near Kawas village, 15 Kms from Surat city and 20 Kms from
Surat Railway Station on Surat Hazira State Highway.
Late Smt. Indira Gandhi, former Prime Minister of India laid the
Foundation Stone on February 5, 1982.
The trial production of Urea commenced from November 26, 1985
and within a very short time of 3 months, the commercial production
commenced from March 01, 1986.
7%) in Capital Cost of the Project, which is a rare feature in the history of a
Public Sector Unit.
In order to serve the farming community better, a Bio-fertilizer Plant of
100 MT per year capacity was commissioned at Hazira on August 15, 1995.
An additional capacity of 150 MT was added to that Plant on December 1,
1998. Subsequently, two more Bio-fertilizer Plants, each of 100 MT capacity,
were installed at Varanasi, UP and Lanja, Maharashtra on Oct 15, 2003 and
Oct 01, 2004 respectively.
MISSION
OBJECTIVES
MAIN
proper maintenance
To
enlarge
product-mix
through
product
development
To continue and intensify efforts towards rural
its production
capacity.
REGISTERED OFFICE
CORPORATE OFFICE
Voice Mail
Fax
Website
: www.kribhco.net
Fax
Website
: www.kribhcosurat.com
Voice Mail
Fax
17.04.1980
07.07.1980
31.03.1981
Gandhi
05.02.1982
Project Completed
Plant Completed
Mech. Completion of Plants:
31.05.1985
26.11.1985
30.04.1984
31.08.1984
18.09.1985
- Phase-2
Commencement of Trial production - Ammonia
06.11.1985
14.11.1985
- Urea
Start of Commercial Production Ammonia & Urea
OTHER PROJECT HIGHLIGHTS:
26.11.1985
01.03.1986
Reinforcement
30,000 MT
PLANT DETAIL
1.
AMMONIA
No of plant
: Two
Capacity of each
Plan
By product
Raw Material
ammonia are:
Shift Conversion
Methanation
Ammonia Synthesis
Refrigeration system
2. UREA
No of plant
: Four
Capacity of each
Plan
By product
Raw Material
: Principle Raw Materials used for the production
of
ammonia are:
Ammonia (NH3)
Consultants
M/s.
Snamprogetti,
Italy
Synthesis
and about 35% is used for power generation. Power is generated with the
help of two turbo generators.
The power plant consists of two extractions cum condensing type T.G. sets
each of 15 MW capacities, supplied by BHEL. Out of this KRIBHCO require
25 MW power and remaining supplied to G.E.B.
CAPACITY OF PLANT
1. Presently the society has Gas based Ammonia and Urea Complex,
which is one of the largest in the cooperative sector in the world,
situated on the bank of the river Tapti near Surat in Gujarat. Two
Phase of Ammonia Plant 1520 MTDP (Metric Ton Per Day) Capacity
each and Two Phase of Urea Plant 2620MTDP Capacity each. Annual
capacity of produces is 16.24 Lacs Tones of Urea.
2. The production capacity of captive power plant is 30 Mega watts.
3. The Production capacity of Bio-Fertilizer Plant is 250 MT per annumSurat, 150 each MT per annum-Varanasi, Lanza Maharashtra.
4. Seed Processing -1.21 Quintals in 2003-2004, highest ever production
so far.
FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE
SOURCE OF FINANCE: The following is the graphical representation of
Sources of Finance:
DISTRI
BUTION OF FINANCE:
The following is the graphical representation of Distribution of Finance:
KRIBHCO NETWORK
A) Head Office
B) Plant
: Surat Gujarat.
Bio-fertilizer Plant
(Maharastra)
Seed Processing Plant: Andhra Pradesh, Gujarat, Haryana, M.P., Punjab
C) Zonal Office
D) State Mktg.Office
MARKETING ACTIVITIES
As per its byelaws, the society has been marketing its product(s) only
through Cooperative and Institutional Agencies. Besides providing its
product(s) to Apex Level Cooperative Federation/ Institutions in most of the
states, it has also been supplying its product(s) to grass-root level societies in
the States of Uttar Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh, Rajasthan, Uttaranchal, Bihar
and the focal points in Punjab, apart form Krishak Bharati Seva Kendras
(KBSKs). The direct supplies to Primary Agricultural Cooperative Societies
(PACSs) / Focal point not only helps in timely availability and increase in
fertilizer consumption, but also provide maximum benefits to these societies
for making the financially strong.
AWARDS
The Society has been honored with various prestigious awards for its
excellent performance during the year some of which are mentioned below:
Award from the South Gujarat Chambers of Commerce & Industry for
outstanding performance in Pollution Control and outstanding
Achievement in Agriculture & Agro Industry.
DEPARTMENTS
KRIBHCO plant site Surat having 1379 employees including both
officers and staff. KRIBHCO is having functional organisation structure. There
are 15 departments and each having linking system related to work. Each
department is having their individual required man power for performing their
jobs.
MAN POWER
Department
No
Employees
62
82
9
101
55
32
210
29
45
56
90
101
13
54
440
1379
1600
2979
of
ORGANISATION STRUCTURE
KRIBHCO-Surat having their Site-in charge designated as operations
director, who is responsible for operations, maintenance, administration,
financial decisions, maintaining pollution norms, which is given by Gujarat
Pollution Control Board and Central Pollution Control Board and Other welfare
activities. Under him there are six General Manager working, who are heading
the department like Personnel and Administration, Finance and Account,
production, Maintenance, Commercial (stores and Purchase) and Technical.
The individual Departments General Managers are responsible for
smooth and efficient operation of plant and other related matters. The Chief
Managers, who are working under General Managers, are heading Sub
Section of Main Department. Under him there are individual Plant Senior
managers, who are responsible for plant production target, day-to-day
activities related to plant or Machineries preventing and break down
maintenance.
Under
senior
manager,
there
are
Managers/Deputy
Managers/Senior Engineers working who are responsible for round the clock
plant production, safety and machine maintenance. There are field
engineers/Chief Operators/Unit operators, who are responsible for plant
operations and maintenance round the clock.
A
B
B1
C
D
E
F
F1
G
G1
G2
H
Managing Director
Director (Operations/Marketing/Finance)
Executive Director
Senior General Manager/General Manager
Joint General Manager/Chief Manager
Senior Manager/CMO
Manager
Deputy Manager/Senior Manager M.O.
Sr. Assistant Manager/ Sr, Area Manager/Sr. Engineer/Foreman
Assistant manager/Engineer/Assistant Foreman
Assistant Engineer/Assistant Manager
Joint Manager/P.S.
FUTURE PLANS
A joint venture fertilizer project in Oman:
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RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
Objective
Problem to investigate
We have very limited time period for the training and project report so
we prepared it within the sort time.
All the data are realistic but I have to keep it confidential from the
outsiders, so I cant disclose that data.
I tried very hard to get the data from the officers due to MR RAMVILAS
PASVAN came for visiting of KRIBHCO. All the employees were busy
for the preparation of that function.
Research methodology
Type of the data: For the survey we have to collect two types of data:
1. Primary Data: This project no need any primary data.
2. Secondary data.
Source of the data: All the data collected from the officers of the
Finance and Account Department. The data is stored in krims LAN
system that is the shared network used in KRIBHCO.
Instrument of the data collection
a. Primary Data: There is no primary data has collected
b. Secondary Data: All the data are secondary, that I have collected
form the Finance and account Department.
INTRODUCTION OF BUDGETING
MEANING OF A BUDGET
A budget is a comprehensive and coordinated plan, expressed in
financial terms, for the operations and resources of an enterprise for some
specific period
1) It is a comprehensive and coordinated plan.
2) It is expressed in financial terms.
3) It is a plan for the firms operation and resources.
4) It is a future plan for a specified period.
A budget is the plan of the firms expectations in the future. Planning
involves the control and manipulation of relevant variables- controllable and
non-controllable,
and
reduces
the
impact
of
uncertainty.
It
makes
DEFINITION
Planning
is
selection
of
objectives,
policies,
procedures
and
Customer demand
Government policy
Technology
Global stability.
ESSENTIALS OF BUDGETING
A successful and sound budgeting system is based upon certain
prerequisites.
These
prerequisites
represent
management
attitude,
Top Management Support:A budgeting system will be an utter failure if it is not initiated and
supported by top management. Top management must realise that budgeting
is not merely an accounting device, but it is an important management tool.
Top management must:
a) understand the nature and characteristics of budgeting;
b) be convinced that this particular approach to managing is preferable for
their situation;
c) be willing to devote the effort required to make it operative;
d) support the programme in all its ramification;
e) view the result of the planning process as performance commitments.
A company will be able to implement the budget plans proficiently and
effectively if top management has a positive attitude towards budgeting and
gives directions for budget implementations. It is, therefore, one of the most
difficult problems of the financial manager or the budget director to sell the
idea of budgeting to the managing director and other top officials.
The support of top management for the budgeting system implies that it
is confident about its capability to plan the future course of action and run the
enterprise successfully. Top management must be convinced that it can
predict future with reasonable accuracy; and that realistic objectives and goals
can be predetermined. Top managements confidence in the budgeting
process makes the subordinates more confident and conscious. It has been
shown by the behavioural research that subordinates of a manager will be
approximately three times more cost-conscious than the subordinates of a
manager who is not cost-conscious.
Top management should not only have a positive attitude towards
budgeting but should also devote necessary time and resources to the
preparation and implementation of budgets. Budget estimates are generally
prepared by the line managers, but top management has the responsibility of
coordinating budgets of different departments regarding resources allocation.
Top management should also initiate a follow-up to see that there is effective
implementation of budgets.
Clear and Realistic Goals:Budgeting is a means to achieve goals and objectives. All planning
presupposes that objectives and goals have been clearly and unambiguously
established. Budgeting will not succeed if the goals achieved are not clear;
budget implementation will not be systematic. In the absence of goal clarity,
employees will lack a proper direction; the efforts of management will be
wasted. The financial manager or budget director, therefore, must ensure that
objectives and goals have been properly laid down. As far as possible,
objectives and goals should be written in formal terms. But too much formality
should be avoided as it can make budgeting system inflexible.
The enterprise objectives and budget goals to be accomplished
through budgeting should be reasonable and realistic they should be capable
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of attainment. Budget goals should not be set at too high or too low a level.
Goals set at a very high level are impossible to attain and, as a result, have a
depressing effect on the employees morale. Once the employees know that
they are unrealistic and unattainable, they do not put any serious efforts to
achieve them. Goals set at a very low level do not provide any challenge to
employees. Their achievement does not require any special effort and,
therefore, employees do not feel motivated. The enterprise objectives and
budget goals must provide a real challenge and should be capable to
motivating employees. What are the realistic objectives and goals for an
enterprise depend upon a host of factors, such as size of the enterprise,
managerial philosophy and quality, age of the enterprise, nature of activities
and many psychological and other factors. Goals set realistically provide
better motivation to employees in the long run.
Assignment of Authority and Responsibility:A sound organisational structure is essential for the success of the
budgetory system. Authorities and responsibilities of each manager should be
clearly identified and established. A sound organisational structure and a
clear-cut assignment of authorities and responsibilities provide an effective
means to achieve enterprise objectives and budget goals in a coordinated and
efficient manner. The budgetory system should be established in terms of the
assigned authorities and responsibilities; the performance of each manager
should be evaluated in terms of the assigned authorities and responsibilities.
If there is no synchronization between the budgeting system and the
organisation structure of the enterprise, the planning and control system
would not be effective. In the absence of the clear-cut assignment of
authorities and responsibilities either manager cannot be held accountable, or
they will be held accountable for those activities for those activities for which
they have no responsibility.
The type of organisational structure for an enterprise will depend upon
the leadership style of top management. An enterprise may have a formally
defined organisational structure or an information organisational structure.
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expenses for the cost centers. For control purposes the manager attention is
focus upon the variance between actual and budgeted expenses.
In a cost center the consequences of decisions are measured by cost
alone the accomplishment of the cost center are not measured in financial
terms. Thus the effectiveness and efficiency of the cost centre cannot be
properly
best. This kind of analysis, of course, ignores the contributions made by the
center to the firms overall profitability.
Profit Centre:A profit centre, also known as a contributions margin centre, is a
responsibility center where the manager is responsible for the both costs and
revenues and thus, for profit. A profit center provides more effective
assessment of performance as both costs and revenues are measured in
financial terms. A profit centre is more relevant for profit planning and control
as it allows the measurement of both output and input units of the centre.
To ensure effective control through the profit centre control system, the
controllable and non controllable activities should be identified. The manager
of a profit center should be held responsible only for those costs and
revenues which are controllable by him through his decisions. The indirect
costs are usually non- controllable therefore, they may not be allocated to a
profit centre. If the allocation of indirect cost avoided, one may think in terms
of contribution margin centers, rather that profit centers, contribution margin is
the difference between variable costs and revenues of the center.
Investment Center:An investment centre is a responsibility center where the manager is
responsibility for costs and revenues as well as the investment in assets used
by the centre. In an investment center, performance is assessed not only by
profit, but by relating profit to the investment. Thus, return on investment is
used as the performance evaluation criterion in an investment center. In a
sense, investment centres are treated as separate firms where the manager is
responsible for the overall activities affecting costs, revenues and investment.
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Adaptation of the Accounting System:The accounting system catering only to the needs of external users is
not adequate for the purpose of profit planning and control and internal
management. Budgeting is based on the data generated by the accounting
system. Control of performance involves the comparison of actual
performance or results with the plant performance. Therefore the accounting
system should suitable adapted to facilitate the planning and control process it
should be structured around the areas of responsibility. In fact a sound
budgetary system needs the certain of a responsibility accounting system. A
responsibility accounting system is primarily oriented towards the organisation
responsibilities and is a means to achieve affective control. The accounts are
classified and prepared by responsibilities centers. An accounting system
tailored to the responsibility structured of this enterprise generates data that
are relevant to the planning and controls system.
A cost accounting system has two primary aims:
a) To measure the cost of production and
b) To furnish data for planning and control.
Historical cost accounting has paid more attention to the measurement
of cost of production than planning and control functions. In responsibility
accounting, the emphasis is on planning on control accounts are classified on
responsibilities basis, not on a product cost basis. The cost accumulated for
planning and control purposes can easily be recast for product costing
purpose. But it is difficult to use cost data accumulated for product costing
purposes for planning and control.
control. In fact, for the success of budgeting, every one in the enterprise
should have confidence in the budgeting system and should be involved and
committed to it. The line executives, who actually prepare the budgets, should
not only be confident of their ability to plan for the future with reasonable
precision, but also should understand the technicalities of budgeting. They
should know now to readjust budgets when the circumstances in order to
seek their meaningful participation and involvement. This requires a
continuous budget education. The employees of an enterprise must be
educated about the nature, characteristics value and method of budgeting.
They should also be taught how to interpret the budget result and how the
performance is evaluated through budgets.
Flexibility:The budgeting system should be flexible enough to take advantage of
all opportunities that arise from time to time and are not covered by the
budget. Inflexibility impairs the initiative and freedom of managers and
subordinates
in
making
decisions. A rigidly
administered
budgeting
It is futuristic in character;
PURPOSES OF BUDGETING
Simple stated the process of preparing and using budgets to achieve
management
objectives
is
called
budgeting.
More
specifically,
of
budget is the limiting factor or key factor i.e. who there is any limitation in
respect of raw-material capacity utilization of the plant; sales, finance human
resources etc. having considered the limiting factor, the production and sales
targets are to be fixed and based on the functional budget: master budget is
to be prepared.
Now, in KRIBHCO major factor gas availability is the production key
factor. If in market gas is not available so definitely production should be less.
Some time high price of gas and some another factors are consider so
management purchase raw materials are less so should be less production.
So this is a major factor in kribhco.
2.
Control Technique
The budget may be so prepared and analyzed that it can be used as a
STATEMENT OF EXPECTATIONS
As observed earlier, a firm establishes broad, longrange objectives.
The long-run objectives are pursued in successive, shortrun steps in the
future periods of time. A budget is a means of expressing goals to be
achieved in short-run in formal terms. It establishes a harmony between the
short-run goals and the long-run objective of the firm. The targets of expected
performance are late down when a budget is prepared. These targets are
directional and motivational in nature. They direct individual and group efforts
and operations towards and common goal. They motivate individuals since
expected targets are used to evaluated performance. A budget helps to clarify
the assumption underlying future goal. For example, if a sales target for the
next year is formulated, the budget gives details about the prices, quantities,
sales efforts, territories to be served and so on. The assumption underlying
the budgets or goals are based on a number of factors, such as economic
conditions, political and social environment, supply and demand force,
competition, consumers attitude, technological changes, etc. the short-term
goals and policies should be modified whenever these factors change and
should be incorporated in the budgeting system.
Communication:A more explicit statement of goals and means to achieve them does
not imply that goals will be accomplished. The people of an enterprise should
know what the goals are; they should understand and support them. It is the
function of too management to inform people at lower level of management
about the performance expected of them. Top management uses budgeting
as a vehicle to communicate goals or expectation of employees. A clear
written communication of goals through budget will help employees to
understand support and accomplish goals through a proper coordination or
goals and means.
BUDGET ADMINISTRATION
It need be emphasised again that the budget preparation is a line
function, while the organisation and administration of budgeting is a staff
function. The line executives have the responsibility of deciding what the
plans or budgets are to be. It is not the function of the staff organisation to
decide what the plans are to be for areas of responsibility other then its own.
The primary responsibility of the staff organisation is to assist line executives
in preparing budgets by providing data and technical advice and coordinating
the budgets of various departments to from a master budget.
Budget Committee:A joint effort of all managers is needed to prepared budgets. All should
participate in setting goals, developing plans and formulating policies.
Generally the administration of budgeting may be delegated to a budget
committee. The members of budget committee consist of executive from each
department. Frequently members from production, sales and finance are
included in the budget committee. The budget director is the overall incharge
of the budget committee. The budget director may be the controller or the
chief accountant or an independent person. Sometimes the membership of
the budget committee may be confined to the budget director, the financial
manager, the managing director and the economist. Special budget
committee may also be formed such as a production budget committee or a
sales budget committee.
The major functions of the budget committee are:
a) To provide general guidelines for preparing budgets.
b) To offer technical advice.
c) To receive and review individual budgets.
d) To suggest changes.
e) To reconcile divergent activities.
f)
Financial Budgets:Financial budgets are concerned with the financial implications of the
operating budgets the expected cash inflows and cash outflows, financial
position and the operating results. The important components of financial
budgets are: cash budget, pro forma balance sheet and income statement
and statements of changes in financial position.
Cash budget is the most important component of the financial budgets.
A good management would keep cash balance at optimum level; too little
cash endangers the liquidity of a company, and too much cash tends to impair
profitability. The major objective of the cash budget, therefore is to plan cash
in such a way that the idle cash in the most profitable manner.
In addition to a cash budget, it is also useful to prepare a project, or pro
forma, balance sheet and income statement. A cash budget reveals the
expected cash position of an enterprise while pro forma financial statements
give information as to the future assets, liabilities and income statement items.
The pro forma statements are prepared to identify the anticipated results of
the budgeted operations. The analysis of the present and past financial
statements indicates the direction of change in the financial position and
performance of the enterprise. The future can be planned to follow the past
direction or to chance it. The preparation of the cash budget and pro forma
statements compels management to look ahead and balance its policies and
activities.
The cause of the change in the financial position of an enterprise is
better revealed by the statement of change in financial position. The
statements have become quite significant now-a-day and is being prepared as
a third financial statement by the firms. The statement very clearly shows the
sources and use of the firms financial resources. The projected statement of
change in financial position can be prepared from the pro forma balance
sheets and income statement to show the effect of the budgeted operations
on the financial resources of the firm and, accordingly, the firm can plan its
policies to pay dividends, refund debt, acquire fixed assets, borrow loans or
issue share capital.
CLASSIFICATION OF BUDGET
The budget may be so broadly classified as Master Revenue Budget,
Operation Budget and Capital Budget.
Master Revenue Budget is based on the following functional Budget:I. Cash budget
II. Selling budget
III. Production budget
IV. Procurement budget
V. Plant utilization budget
VI. Cost of production budget
Material budget
Purchase budget
R & D cost budget
Labour cost budget
Plant utilization budget
Maintenance cost budget
Production overhead budget
REVENUE BUDGET
A letter duly signed by Chief Manager (F&A) is sent to all departments
asking them to submit the likely requirements of the year, before specific date
(mostly last day of November). They will also have to send the justification
with adequate proof for the sum they demand. Concerned department while
submitting their proposals will also submit the report containing details of
expenditure done under the same head last year.
From all the information thus available, a preliminary budget formation
takes place. Subsequently discussions are held at various levels to check the
validity of the budget so formed and finally after passing through all checks it
is presented before the Board of Directors for final approval.
The above written procedure is not as simple as it seems and takes 4-5
months. The concerned department also has to ensure that it neither asks for
too much or too less amount for in first case it would be questionable for
excess amount lying unutilized, whereas in later case they would not be given
any additional amount to purchase in excess of budget.
CAPITAL BUDGET
The other major budget is capital budget. The formation of capital
budget is on the same pattern and follows same procedure as revenue
budget.
It is important to understand distinction between capital and revenue
expenditure. It benefits of an expenditure are expected to accrue for long
time; the expenditure is of capital nature. Any expenditure whose benefit
expires within the accounting year or expenditure that merely seeks to
maintain the business or keep assets in good working condition is revenue
expenditure.
On face of it, this distinction seems easy, but many of times it becomes
quite complicated to differentiate between these two expenditures.
Capital budget involves the planning to acquire worth while projects,
together with the timings of the estimated cost and cash flows of each project.
Such projects require large some of funds and have long term implications for
the firm. Capital budgets are difficult to prepare because estimate of the cash
flows over a long period have to be made which involve a grater degree of
uncertainty.
The capital budgets are generally prepared separately from the
operating budgets. In many companies, there is a committee separate from
the budget committee. To appropriate funds for capital investment projects. In
the capital budgeting, the profitability of each project has to be carefully
evaluated. Various techniques can be used to determine the profitableness
biases and capable of clearly indicating whether the project should be
accepted or not.
from bottom to top indicating the detailed action plan to achieve the target for
the approval of the competent authority.
BUDGETORY CONTROL
Budget is an important instrument in controlling the course of action to
be followed for the given future period for the purpose of maximization of the
profit of an organization. But more preparation of budget will be show piece
unless the same is followed and actual activities are measured in terms of
budget to ensure that the actual is going on in correct directions. In fact,
budget may be used for control purposes and utility of budget depends on the
budgetory control process. The Institute of Cost of Management Accountants
of U.K. has defined budgetory control as The establishment of Department
Budgets relating to the responsibilities of the executives to the requirements
of a policy and the continuous comparison of actual with Budgeted results
either to secure by individual action the objectives of that policy or to provide a
firm basis for its revision. Thus, a budgetory control system ensures
continuous comparison of actual results with the budgeted results and brings
out variances on a periodical basis say a month or a quarter. Deviations or
variances are required to be further analyses to locate the areas where there
is inefficiency or shortfall so that action may immediately be taken to avoid
wasteful losses/wastage.
ADVANTAGES OF BUDGETING
To reiterate budgeting is a management tool; it is a way of managing.
Many benefits are derived from budgeting, although it is a means not an end
in itself. Budgeting is a feed forward process; it makes an evaluation of the
variables likely to affect future operations of the enterprise. It predicts future
with reasonable precision and removes uncertainty to a greater extent. The
following are some of the more significant advantages of budgeting:
1) Budgeting compels management to plan for future. The budgeting
process forces management to look ahead and become more efficient
in administering the business operations. It instills into managers the
habit of evaluating carefully their problems and related variables before
making any decisions.
2) Budgeting helps to coordinate, integrate and balance the efforts of
various departments in the light of the overall objectives of the
enterprise. This results in goal congruency and harmony among the
departments.
3) Budgeting facilitates control by providing definite expectations in the
planning phase that can be used as a frame of reference for judging
the subsequent performance. Undoubtedly, budgeted performance is
more relevant standard for comparison than past performance, since
past performance is based on historical factors which are constantly
changing.
4) Budgeting improves the quality of communication. The enterprise
objectives, budget goals, plans, authority and responsibility and
procedures to implement plans are clearly written and communicated
through budgets to all individuals in the enterprise. This results in better
understanding and harmonious relations among managers and
subordinates.
5) Budgeting helps to optimise the use of the firms resources capital and
human; it aids in directing the total efforts of the firm into the most
profitable channels.
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and
thereby
saves
management
time
and
energy
considerably.
8) Budgeting measures efficiency, permits management self evaluation
and indicates the progress in attaining the enterprise objectives.
PROBLEMS AND LIMITATIONS OF BUDGETING
Budgeting is a systemic approach to the solution of problems. But it is
not fool proof; it suffers from certain problems and limitations. The major
problems in developing a budgeting system are:
a) Seeking the support and involvement of all levels of management.
b) Developing meaningful forecasts and plans, specially the sales plan.
c) Educating all individuals to be involved in the budgeting process and
gaining their full participation.
d) Establishing realistic objectives, policies, procedures and standards of
desired performance.
e) Applying the budgeting system in a flexible manner.
f)
with
other
managerial
techniques.
Budgeting
assists
BUDGETING IN KRIBHCO
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
GENERAL MANAGER F&A
MANAGING DIRECTOR
HEAD OFFICE
MS DEPARTMENT
HEAD OFFICE
MANAGING DIRECTOR
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
CONCLUSION
Planning and Budgeting is one of the important technique used in modern
management for effective utilization of scarce resources for achievement of
the objective of an enterprise. The objective of an enterprise is to maximize
the wealth of the owner i.e. shareholders. Various alternative courses of
actions are there to get the things done. The above techniques assist in
selection of desired course of action and application of the same effectively to
get the things done in most economical and desired manner.
From the above discussion, it would be observed that the budget is not
a appropriation of funds but is a control instrument according to which the
execution is to be made. It is also observed that in production side budget is
taken seriously and serious attempt is made in compilation of the budget.
However, in the marketing budget is not taken seriously resulting various in
factitious expenditure which is causing adverse criticism from the various
quarters. It is to be remembered that no expenditure particularly, expenditure
incurred for purchasing any assets or durable item can be incurred unless the
same is authorized in the budget. Whenever there is any proposal either for
purchase of material or a services is must be companied with the required
provision made in the budget. If the proposed expenditure exceeds the budget
provision, the proposal will not be considered unless fund is appropriated. It is
there fore, requested that the officers/staff in the marketing department must
taking interest in preparation and implementation of Budget.
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