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                                 Mastering the
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                                 Budget Process



                                    The more you know, the easier it gets.
                                                           —Anonymous
                                  f you’ve come this far, then you know all the parts of the
                                 Ibudget process, but there’s still much more to learn. You can
                                 continue to improve your budgeting and management skills for
                                 the rest of your career. Here in this last chapter, we’ll look at
                                 specific steps that you can take to learn more, succeed more
                                 fully in budgeting, and be more successful as a manager:
                                    •Negotiating for your budget
                                    •Improving your estimation skills
                                    •Timing your budget preparation
                                 Negotiating for Your Budget

                                 One problem that every company faces is sometimes called ver-
                                 tical communication. There are barriers in talking with your boss,
                                 and when there’s another boss above that, and then another, the
                                 folks at the top rarely have a good idea of what’s really going on


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