operating budget
Annual expense allocation
An operating budget is a financial plan that outlines an organization's expected income and expenses over a specific period, typically a fiscal year.
It covers day-to-day costs like salaries, utilities, supplies, and maintenance—the recurring expenses needed to keep things running—as distinct from capital budgets, which fund major purchases or long-term investments.
The department had to cut travel and training to stay within its operating budget.
- overheadLocated directly above
- expensesMoney spent on things
- costsAmounts required to pay
- bottom lineEssential point or conclusion
- in the blackOperating at profit
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- Budget Documentsspending plan
- budget limitsspending cap, spending caps, spending limits, spending freeze, borrowing limit
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- federal budgetappropriations, deficit, surplus, federal spending, government spending
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