Ideally, financial budgeting takes place through the setting of significant top management goals, which are then detailed by way of a bottom-up action plan.
Our services include:
analyzing the history to identify value drivers
analyzing budget history
projecting sales, reconciled to the market, order backlog and customer qualification
budgeting staffing levels, reconciled to sales and possibly research budgets
budgeting capital expenditures, reconciled to staffing and sales budgets
budgeting expenses, reconciled to sales- and staffing budgets
budgeting balance sheets, particularly ensuring agreement with capital expenditure and liquidity budgets and reconciling to sales and expense budgets
budgeting cash flows based on budgeted balance sheets