budget
Let an agent explain budgets and budgeting methods, support personal and organisational budgeting at a general level, describe public budget processes and analysis with attribution, and avoid personalised financial advice.
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Purpose and description
Let an agent explain budgets and budgeting methods, support personal and organisational budgeting at a general level, describe public budget processes and analysis with attribution, and avoid personalised financial advice.
A financial plan setting out expected income and expenditure over a period for a person, household, organisation or government, used to allocate resources, control spending and plan for goals, in forms from personal and school budgets to corporate budgets and national and federal budgets such as those of Belarus or Belgium, prepared by methods such as incremental, zero-based and participatory budgeting; public budgets are adopted by legislatures and analysed for fiscal incidence and effects.
What it is for: Financial plans of income and expenditure.
It can be explain budgets and methods; support general budgeting; describe public budget processes; avoid personalised financial advice.
Distinguishing features
Forward-looking
Allocation and control
Methods of preparation
Legislative adoption for public budgets
What it looks like
Not physical; documents and spreadsheets.
How it is recognised
Plan of income and expenditure over a period
Personal, organisational or public
Accounts record what happened; a forecast predicts without allocating
Related models
is a kind of - category
is related to - officers responsible for budgets
is related to - a body adopting budgets
is related to - national budgets in context
In practice
Families and kinds
personal and household budgets
organisational and school budgets
corporate budgets
national and federal budgets
participatory and zero-based budgeting
Standards and regulation
Public finance and budget law
Accounting standards
Fiscal transparency standards
Failure modes and hazards
Agents giving personalised financial advice
Unrealistic assumptions
Partisan presentation of public budgets
Also called
Where this came from
wikidata · CC0 1.0
Drafted structure
Bundle to layer to finding to question, as the second pass will find it: 4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions.
Understand What budgets are.
Finance.
Concept
Concept and kinds.
Concept
Concept.
- What is a budget, and how do personal, organisational and public budgets differ? definition
- Which kind of budget is meant? boundary
Methods
Budgeting methods.
Methods
Methods.
- How do incremental, zero-based, activity-based and participatory budgeting differ? definition
- Which entry fits a specific method? action
Make Making a budget.
Practice.
Personal
Personal budgeting.
Personal
Personal.
- How can a household budget be built and tracked, in general terms? action
- Is personalised financial advice being sought, which is out of scope? boundary
Organisation
Organisational budgeting.
Organisation
Organisation.
- How do organisations prepare, approve and monitor budgets? provenance
- Which entry fits management accounting? action
Public Public budgets.
Attribution.
Process
Budget process.
Process
Process.
- How are national and local budgets prepared, adopted and audited? provenance
- Which entry fits a specific country budget? action
Analysis
Fiscal analysis.
Analysis
Analysis.
- How are budgets analysed for fiscal incidence and distributional effects, and what debates exist, with positions attributed? provenance
- Is the presentation neutral? boundary
Learn History and teaching.
Education.
History
History.
History
History.
- How did budgeting develop in households, firms and states? provenance
- Which references are standard? provenance
Teach
Teaching.
Teach
Teaching.
- How can budgeting be taught in financial literacy? action
- Which misconceptions arise? provenance
What the second pass must settle
- Should public budgeting be a separate entry?
- How should budget documents be linked?
- How should fiscal analysis be attributed?