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Budget: Budget is an effective tool to achieve the financial and operational goals of the business. Budget is the key element of the financial planning and it assists managers to control the business costs. Management should set the budgeted amount at reasonable and achievable levels.
Master budget: Master budget is an interrelated budget that collectively summarizes all the planned activities of the business. Master budget is not a single document and it consist the number of interrelated budgets like sales budget, production budget, and cash budget. Master budget helps the management to review the upcoming quarter budget with the monthly amount of budget figures.
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The master budget includes a set of company’s budget plan for production, sales, purchases, labor, overhead, selling and administrative expenses. It helps in further preparation of the budgeted income statement and budgeted balance sheet.
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