Unit 2: Exploring Business Activity Assignment 2 D1
Amendment

To: Viren Amin Date: 17th November 2009

From: Jed Hatton Reference: BTEC Group B

Subject: How managing the resources of the organisation and effective budgetary control can improve the performance of a business.

Introduction: In this report I will be speaking about how managing the resources of an organisation and effective budgetary control can lead to improved performance of a business.

Findings/ Main Body: As I have talked about with you before, managing the resources of an organisation and looking closely at its budgetary control is absolutely vital in business. It improves performance over every department and gives the business management team a clear view on where they can expand and develop in the future.

Every public limited company that allows people to buy shares within their business must publish their accounts so that investors can see how well they are doing and judge whether or not to buy their shares on the stock exchange. All the top dog companies have a clear view on their resources and budgets; this is evident from Tesco who have lists of all their resources and a clear cash flow all on one financial statement. They made profits of over £2 billion in 2005 and this tells us that managing budgets and resources well really does improve businesses performance.

Managing resources of an organisation improves performance as it gives more cash flow, providing you cut back on unnecessary resources; this gives more to re-invest or to pay off liabilities. E.g. If John Lewis had £4600 of current assets and £3600 of current liabilities then they would have a working capital of £1000. By managing the resources and cutting back on waste products, such as recycling paper, they can