Traditionel Budgettering versus Beyond Budgeting

Thesis (M.A.) from the year 2010 in the subject Business economics - Accounting and Taxes grade: C Copenhagen Business School (Institut for Regnskab og Revision. RR) course: Finance language: Danish abstract: Beyond Budgeting came up as a solution to the growing criticism of the traditional way of budgeting. Jeremy Hope and Robin Fraser founded Beyond Budgeting with the establishment of Beyond Budgeting Round Table - BBRT. The members of BBRT included companies such as Svenska Handelsbanken Borealis IKEA Volvo and others. Other companies had also engaged in a financial management without budgets and more in the direction of the method behind Beyond Budgeting. Briefly deals Beyond Budgeting with the abolition of the traditional annual budget for a new budgeting method. The key words for such an accomplishment is a more adaptable organization with more confidence between the vertical organizational structures. This is achieved through adaptive management principles and a radical decentralization which is supposed to give employees more authority and confidence to make competent decisions. That is one of the reasons why we found it interesting to find out how it is different and what it has to offer compared to the traditional way of budgeting. The purpose of this thesis is to compare and analyze the two budgeting methods - traditional budgeting and Beyond Budgeting to see how they differ from each other and where they can compliment each other. Common to both budgeting methods is in all its simplicity a desire to have economic focus and to ensure that the company perform in the desired direction. The tool for this task is the company budgeting method where its main focus is to operationalize the desire and to link the chosen strategy and objective. Based on our problem field and research question we took standing point in the two different methods. Added to the analysis we used two different cases to obtain some practical information about th