You can find various definitions of Financial Budgeting in the net.

allbusiness.com defined Financial Budgeting as one that embraces the impacts of the financial decisions of the firm. It is a plan including a budgeted balance sheet , which shows the effects of planned operations and capital investments on assets, liabilities, and equities. It also includes a cash budget , which forecasts the flow of cash and other funds in the business. Cash budgeting (cash planning) is a critical part of budgeting because it is essential to have the right sums of cash available at the right times.

financial-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com defined Financial Budget as a budget is a written record of income and expenses during a specific time frame, typically a year.

financial-budget-2

All the definitions of the Financial Budget that you can find in the net, all narrow down to one common theme that  describes about a company’s future operations, expectations, and cashflow.  My definition of Financial Budget is a well organized and written plan of a company’s future operations, expectation and funding activities translated into financial numbers.  The Financial Budget takes consideration of a company’s historical performance and uses it as a basis to forecast its future business activities, expectations and undertakings.  financial-budget-3

A Financial Budget forms part of a company’s Business Plan.  For benefit of readers, who are new to this topic, the Business Plan is a written roadmap that spells out the details of a company’s near future mission, operational objectives, financial objectives and how they will be achieved. 

Different companies and different industries have different methodologies of preparing the Financial Budget.  A complete Financial Budgeting Spreadsheets, or sometimes refer as a master budget spreadsheets, consists of a Budgeted Profit and Loss Spreadsheet, Budgeted Investment  Activities Spreadsheet, Budgeted Financing Activities Spreadsheet and Budgeted Cash Flow Requirement Spreadsheet.

[ad#ad-3]