A new guide by an independent management consultant walks agencies through concrete examples of how they can do a better job of connecting their budgets to both daily activities and broader ...

Making and regularly updating a budget can help you live within your means and save for the future, whether that means a down ...

New business owners starting a day-care center must create a budget that suits a functional center. The individual figures for each item on the budget differ depending on the size of the day-care ...

If you are a single mom, you don’t want to get to the end of the month and wonder where all your money went. Single moms have unique financial challenges, since they often operate a household on one ...

Rebecca Lake is a certified educator in personal finance (CEPF) and a banking expert. She's been writing about personal finance since 2014, and her work has appeared in numerous publications online.

A zero-based budget is a budgeting method in which every dollar of income is allocated for a specific purpose. This budgeting approach involves starting from scratch and allocating every dollar of ...

A budget variance is a discrepancy between the predicted cost or revenue in a given account. A budget variance may include a revenue shortfall due to an inaccurate estimate, or a sudden and unexpected ...

The Dan Foley Cultural Center buzzed with conversation and music Wednesday night for the first of three Participatory Budgeting Vallejo community expositions. Visitors were given a sneak peak at about ...