quarterly budget

Three-month allocation

A quarterly budget is a financial plan covering a three-month period, dividing the fiscal year into four segments for planning and review.

Organizations use quarterly budgets to track spending, adjust forecasts, and respond to changing conditions more nimbly than annual budgets allow: We'll revisit the marketing spend in the quarterly budget review.

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spending plan · allocation · line items · cost center · spreadsheet · projections · review · earnings · planning · number crunching · meeting · deadline · report · approval · variance · targets · shortfall · red ink

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time horizon

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Year's planned spending

five-year plan · monthly budget · weekly budget · strategic plan

planning vs. actual

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Periodic corporate financial disclosure

quarterly results · quarterly earnings

formality/structure

quarterly budgetdiscretionary spending

Non-obligatory personal expenditures

slush fund · petty cash · emergency spending · impulse buying

Family

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