Published simultaneously in Canada.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

INTRODUCTION TO THE BUDGETING PROCESS -- Integrating the Balanced Scorecard for Improved Planning and Performance Management -- Budgeting and the Strategic Planning Process -- The Budget: An Integral Element of Internal Control -- The Relationship Between Strategic Planning and the Budgeting Process -- The Essentials of Business Valuation -- TOOLS AND TECHNIQUES -- Implementing Forecasting Best Practices -- Calculations and Modeling in Budgeting Software -- Cost-Accounting Systems: Integration with Manufacturing Budgeting -- Break-Even and Contribution Analysis as a Tool in Budgeting -- Profitability and the Cost of Capital -- Budgeting Shareholder Value -- Applying the Budget System -- Budgets and Performance Compensation -- Predictive Costing, Predictive Accounting -- Cost Behavior and the Relationship to the Budgeting Process -- PREPARATION OF SPECIFIC BUDGETS -- Sales and Marketing Budget -- Manufacturing Budget -- Research and Development Budget -- Administrative-Expense Budget -- Budgeting the Purchasing Department and the Purchasing Process -- Capital Investment Review-Toward a New Process -- Leasing -- Blowing up the Budget -- Balance-Sheet Budget -- Budgeting for International Operations -- Understanding Foreign Exchange Transactions -- Budgeting Property and Liability Insurance Requirements -- BUDGETING APPLICATIONS -- Budgeting: Key to Corporate Performance Management -- Zero-Based Budgeting -- Bracket Budgeting -- Program Budgeting: Planning, Programming, Budgeting -- Activity-Based Budgeting -- INDUSTRY BUDGETS -- Budgeting in Nonprofit Organizations -- Budgeting in Higher Education -- Budgeting in the Health-Care Industry -- Budgeting in the Biotech Industry.