Operating budget – presentation form

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Author(s):  
Brian M. Wodka

This is a follow up article from last year’s ICONE/POWER Conference in Anaheim discussing the development of the new standard for ASME Codes and Standards Committee for the Reliability, Availability, and Maintainability (RAM) of Power Plants. The standard focuses on the priorities of safety, production, and efficiency, with the objective to create an availability program. This program defines an operating budget that supports an effective maintenance program, which in turn ensures the life span of the reliable equipment. The intent is to establish an industry recognized standard for RAM. Some general concepts of the new standard are presented here.


2006 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 116-125 ◽  
Author(s):  
Danell J. Haines ◽  
Annemarie Farrell

Research is an essential component of university recreational sports (URS) because it is needed to scientifically test interventions, defend departmental existence, and to align for further departmental growth. Current data is important documented criteria needed to substantiate an increased operating budget, to justify adding personnel, and to validate the need for additional facilities. However, very few URS professionals conduct and report research. A four-part survey was designed by the investigators to explore the barriers to conducting research, publishing, and presenting. Items were generated through the use of focus groups with college recreational sport staff. While perceived lack of time was consistently cited as a barrier to conducting research, generating publications, and preparing presentations, the study illuminates a number of potential hurdles to creating and maintaining a research culture. In light of these findings, departments of college recreation should be encouraged to examine their organizations and determine the extent to which they enhance or impede research. Finally, it is important to build research capacity within the NIRSA profession to ensure that college recreational sports run efficiently and that professionals can document outcomes, can test new interventions, and evaluate new ways of doing business.


2008 ◽  
Vol 41 (04) ◽  
pp. 937-942
Author(s):  
Janet M. Box-Steffensmeier ◽  
Robin Smith

I am pleased to report that our Association's financial condition remains healthy, providing a resource base sufficient to continue current operations, while expanding the Association's activities in new directions as needed. Since our last annual report, we have seen our endowment and real estate holdings grow in value to about $32.1 million (June 2007), against which we are carrying just $1.6 million in mortgage debt. For the fiscal year that ended June 30, 2008, we estimate that total operating income ($4.8 million) was slightly above budget, with expenditures below. Our broad membership base continues to be the most important reason for our healthy financial condition, while the annual meeting and APSA publications also provide substantial income. In short, we are in the enviable position of enjoying stable membership, while holding substantial income- and growth-producing assets with minimal long-term liabilities. All of these factors combine to produce an operating budget that hews closely to anticipated income and expenses, year after year.


2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Meita Sawang ◽  
Yayuk Nurjanah

The purpose of this study was to determine how the operating budget budgeting income consisting of revenues, expenses , and net income (loss) .In practice, only the operating budget prepared by the realization last year's budget , the activities to be carried out and the predictions / assumptions that would come to cause significant variance in the number and the lack of evaluation for the problem. Evaluations are made to the budgeting process and the cause of the difference . It can also be done to determine the difference is still within the control of management of the company or not.The main thing of this study were ( 1 ) Identify the budgetary process at PT. J Darmawan Venture Capital , ( 2 ) analyzing the causes of the difference in the operational budget PT. J Darmawan Venture Capital , and ( 3 ) Evaluate the management control of PT . J Darmawan Venture Capital for the difference in the operating budget .Data used in this study is primary data and data secondary . The primary data obtained from interviews with financial managers and the financial staff PT. J Darmawan Venture Capital . Secondary data were obtained from official documents data collection owned by PT. J Darmawan Venture Capital associated with the financial data in the form of operating budget ( income and expenses ) and its realization in 2011-2013 as well as theoretical materials such as literature , textbooks , reference , and information relevant to the operational budget will be used as the basis and foundation guidelines think this study. The method used is quantitative descriptive analysis and analysis of variance.The result of research shows that one of the controlling process is analysing variance by compare budgeting and realize that we know the favourable variance or unfavourable variance and corrected if we were need. The use budget must be followed wih deppen variance analysing in order to find out the cause of tendency so that in the future we can take the step that we need to minimize unfavourable variance.Keywords : budgetting , income statement , analysis of variance


2017 ◽  
Vol 57 (2) ◽  
pp. 595
Author(s):  
Elizeu Boto ◽  
Nicholas Heyes ◽  
Don Merritt ◽  
Nima Saremi

Over the next decades, up to 25% of the operating budget of east coast CSG to LNG companies will be spent on interventions required to maintain or remediate productivity of the thousands of wells already drilled in Queensland. The cost of each intervention can range between 30% and 50% of the drilling cost of an individual well. Identifying which interventions, also known as workovers, do not contribute to the overall project value can help save the operators millions of dollars over the life of the field. Production of unconventional wells increases initially after workovers and stimulations, but, ultimately, this production declines, often at a rapid rate. Wells are then abandoned after reaching an economical limit. This limit is influenced by multiple factors, some of which can be technical, such as characteristics of the reservoir, or commercial, such as in the price of gas or related to the availability of installed capacity required to process the product. On the basis of a real case study with a CSG to LNG company in Queensland, the present paper will elaborate how one of the operators is making confident decisions around which wells should be included as part of their workover program. Early findings of the study showed that significant value can be created by applying technology in the identification of which areas of the field are most likely to yield a better return and cases where the production decline can be mitigated only by drilling new wells.


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