In case of Incremental Budgeting, the resource allocation is dependent on the money distributed at the time of the last budgetary period.
style="margin-bottom:5">What makes an Incremental Budget preferable?
Incremental Budget is steady in nature, characterized by gradual changes
The changes introduced in an Incremental Budget are easily visible.
With an Incremental Budget, it is easy to synchronize between different other budgetary documents.
The total concept of Incremental Budgeting is simple and easily comprehendible, hence operation-friendly in nature.
Incremental Budgeting helps the managerial level officials to operate consistently in their individual departments
Incremental Budgeting : Drawbacks
Incremental Budgeting encourages a "spend it or lose it" attitude, which makes it difficult to maintain the terms and conditions of the budgetary document.
The failure of Incremental Budgeting approach lies in not considering the changing economic circumstances.
Previously, the managers were habituated in overestimating their needs, to make an Incremental Budget all the more user-friendly in nature. These yielded favorable outcomes.
An Incremental Budget tends to become obsolete quickly, when it does not associate with the existing work type or activity level.
The assumption on the part of Incremental Budget that the modes of operation and activities will remain the same all throughout is incorrect.
There are no declarations of incentives, as far as the initiation of cost reduction is concerned.
Changes in the resource priorities, from that which is originally set, tends to create discontent and confusion.
The in-built budgetary slack or relaxation is rarely reviewed.
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Professor at Columbia University. Recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 2001 & the John Bates Clark Medal in 1979. Author of "Freefall: America, Free Markets", "The Sinking of the World Economy", "Globalisation and its Discontents" & "Making Globalisation Work".
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