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Title: INCREMENTAL BUDGETING, ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES
Description: Incremental budgeting is a budgeting process that is based on the idea that a new budget can be developed by making only some marginal changes to the present budget.

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INCREMENTAL BUDGETING, ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES
Budgeting is an important part in management accounting
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Incremental budgeting is a budgeting process that is based on
the idea that a new budget can be developed by making only some marginal changes to the
present budget
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Management goes for this type of budgeting if it does not require too much time on preparing
budgets
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Incremental Budgeting Process
Incremental budgeting allows you to use the past year's evaluations to the estimated base for
the present financial year
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This incremental budget model works well for
broad organizations since they have funds allocated and experience minor fluctuations
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Advantages of Incremental Budgeting
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Incremental budgeting is the simplest budgeting approach since it uses the budget for
the ongoing period to project the upcoming budget
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It is easy to implement as you do not have to send your department managers to any
special training in order to use this budgeting system
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The dependence on the figures from the previous budgets assures the budgets remain
fairly consistent and relatively stable over upcoming periods
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This can be useful for companies with projects
that involve funding for several years
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Incremental budgeting does not support risk-taking since an incremental budget
allocates most funds to the same users each year
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If the past budget allocates a specific sum to a particular business unit, then the new
budget will also grant funds to the same unit even if the unit doesn't need it or needs a
minor amount
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Title: INCREMENTAL BUDGETING, ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES
Description: Incremental budgeting is a budgeting process that is based on the idea that a new budget can be developed by making only some marginal changes to the present budget.