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<b>A convenient and up-to-date reference tool for today's financial and nonfinancial managers in public practice and private industry</b> <p>If the very thought of budgets pushes your sanity over the limit, then this practical, easy-to-use guide is just what you need. <i>Budgeting Basics and Beyond, Fourth Edition</i> equips you with an all-in-one resource guaranteed to make the budgeting process easier, less stressful, and more effective. The new edition covers rolling budgets (forecasts), activity-based budgeting, life-cycle budgeting. Cloud computing, Balanced Scorecard, budgeting for nonprofit organizations, business simulations for executive and management training, and much more!</p> <ul> <li>Includes several new software packages, computer-based models and spreadsheet applications, including Value Chain Management software, Financial Planning and Performance software, Web 2.0, Cloud computing, and capital budgeting software</li> <li>Features case studies, illustrations, exhibits, forms, checklists, graphs, samples, and worked-out solutions to a wide variety of budgeting, planning, and control problems</li> <li>Offers financial planning and new types of financial modeling, variance analysis, Web-based budgeting, active budgeting illuminating "what-if" analyses throughout, spreadsheet applications, break-even analysis, project analysis, and capital budgeting</li> </ul> <p><i>Budgeting Basics and Beyond, Fourth Edition</i> is a practical, easy-to-use problem-solver and up-to-date reference tool for today's financial and nonfinancial managers in public practice and private industry.</p>