Business Budgets

The idea of working with a business budget is foreign to many executives, and seemingly too overwhelming and time-consuming for others.

To help our clients overcome these barriers to more effective management, Doeren Mayhew’s business advisors offer budgeting assistance. From simple expense-focused budgets to complex departmental and multiple-entity budgets, we work with you to create a budget based on your level of need.

Benefits of a Business Budget

• Serves as a planning and decision-making tool, allowing you to run scenarios to show the impact of purchases, hiring decisions, price changes and more
• Creates a framework for managing expenses
• Provides measurement tools and benchmarks
• Helps prepare for emergencies or revenue slowdowns
• Helps management think strategically
• Betters your understanding of expenses relative to revenue generation
• Enhances internal control when budget variances are investigated
• Provides projections to better manage long-term cash
• Alerts you to the need to adjust your plan based on differences in budgeted versus actual numbers
• Helps shift management responsibilities for expenses to departments