The Budget
» The Budget, Volume 7, Issue 4, 2007
If respondent has a written budget AND is over budget cost projections.
13b. What is the primary reason for variance from your cost projections?
| Response | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sales stronger than anticipated | 15 | ||
| 2 | Had business opportunity couldn’t pass | 2 | ||
| 3 | Prices on important inputs rose or rose more than planned | 28 | ||
| 4 | Had unanticipated expenditures | 23 | ||
| 5 | Weather issues | 7 | ||
| 6 | Other | 16 | ||
| 7 | DK/Refuse | 9 | ||
| Total (%) | 100 | |||
| N | 79 | |||
Notes: Twenty-eight (28) percent of small employers who have a written budget and are over their budget cost projections cite prices on important inputs rising or rising more than planned as the primary reason for the variance (Q#13b).
