the budgeting process includes both short term and long term planning for an organizations performance to be effective. which one is more important to an organizations financial success?
Answer: short-term planning is more important.
This is so because each budget is prepared for short span of time of future (suppose production budget of upcoming 6 months). If this is successful then only long term planning can be done (such as accumulation of profits in retained earnings can give a healthy financial success after 5 years). Therefore, emphasise should be given in each short-term budget so that the financial plans for future could be successful.
Such as direct material price variance is unfavorable today; this happens because actual price of material is higher than budgeted material price; this should be corrected immediately by applying bulk purchasing discounts. If this can’t be done future cash flows would be affected.
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