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Operating budget

Income and expenditure from daily business

The operating budget contains the revenue and expenditure generated from the daily business functions of the company. It concentrates on the operating expenditures, the cost of goods sold, the cost of direct labour and direct materials that are tied to production; as well as the overhead and administration costs tied directly to manufacturing the goods and providing services.

The operating budget will not contain capital expenditures and long-term loans.

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