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What does ABB stand for?

Activity-Based Budgeting (budgeting methodology)


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Attended by over 134 employees from the finance and strategy sections of government bodies in Abu Dhabi, the workshop stressed the importance of integrating the strategic, recurrent and capital levels of annual budgeting, under the activity-based budgeting methodology.
Therefore only 1/4 of companies have an overview about modern budget methods such as Activity-Based Budgeting (ABB), Zero Based Budgeting (ZBB) or Beyond Budgeting (BB).
Let's look at the fictional case study of Great Wall Cellars to compare and contrast conventional budgeting, zero-based budgeting (ZBB) and activity-based budgeting (ABB).
This system is necessary in order for the judicial branch to meet its constitutional and statutory requirements for activity-based budgeting.
Activity-based costing and its offshoots -- activity-based management and activity-based budgeting -- are more sophisticated than ever, in part because of Internet-based tools that allow managers to share information across the entire corporation.
FMM evolved from over ten years of research on how organizations plan, budget, decide allocations, and set chargeback rates, as well as the implementation of activity-based budgeting in more than two dozen organizations.
In a manufacturing environment, this probably already exists for the direct costs in the form of bills for material, but activity-based budgeting extends this concept beyond the factory floor to the support areas like finance, personnel and informatics.
The six options given were: Rolling Forecast, Balanced Scorecard, Customized Approach, Zero-Based Budgeting, Value-Based Management/EVA [R] and Activity-Based Budgeting (see accompanying box).

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