10 Steps to Successful Budgeting walks you through the fundamentals, explaining your role in your organization's planning and budgeting process. Authors Lianabel Oliver and Eduardo Nin start with a macro perspective, providing an overview of the planning and budgeting process and how it is typically structured within an organization. They then move to preparing a sound budget and defending it to the next level of management. Their combined experience of over 30 years in planning and budgeting will help you navigate this process successfully. The authors' simple, clear explanations and true-to-life examples of budgets and planning tools will help you clarify your departmental spending needs for yourself and others.

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Know the purpose of planning and budgeting -- Know the plannin and budgeting cycle -- Know the elements of an operating budget -- Communicate budget requirements and obtain commitment -- Analyze the operating environment for your areas of responsibility -- Develop short-term objectives, strategies and tacitcal plans -- Prepare your department spending budget -- Obtain approval for your projects -- Review performance against plan and act!