The Budget
» The Budget, Volume 7, Issue 4, 2007
If respondent has a written budget AND is below budget cost projections.
13a. What is the primary reason for variance from your cost projections?
| Response | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sales weaker than anticipated | 26 | ||
| 2 | Able to make some cost-cutting moves | 8 | ||
| 3 | Prices on important inputs fell or fell more than planned | 7 | ||
| 4 | Certain anticipated expenditures did not materialize | 13 | ||
| 5 | Other | 43 | ||
| 6 | DK/Refuse | 3 | ||
| Total (%) | 100 | |||
| N | 65 | |||
Notes: Twenty-six (26) percent of small employers who have a written budget and are below their budget cost projections cite weak sales as the primary reason for the variance (Q#13a).
