Comprehensive Budget Analysis Report for Twin Rivers Cafe

This report provides a comprehensive analysis of the budget performance for Twin Rivers Cafe. It includes an executive summary, outlining the objectives of preparing a budget and the importance of financial planning. The report details the revenue and spending variances for July 2018, comparing planned versus actual figures for items like meals quantity, raw materials, wages, utilities, rent, insurance, and fuel. It identifies both favorable and unfavorable variances, with explanations for each. The analysis highlights areas of concern for management, such as the inability to achieve desired revenue and higher-than-budgeted expenses like rent and insurance. The report concludes with recommendations and suggestions for Twin Rivers Cafe, including the need for regular variance reports, analysis of revenue projections, and optimization of expenses to improve financial performance. The report also includes references to relevant academic sources.

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Contents
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY.............................................................................................................3
TASK...............................................................................................................................................3
A. Objective of preparing a budget for Twin Rivers Café:....................................................3
B. Report showing the company’s revenue and spending variance for July along with
explanation:............................................................................................................................5
C. Activity of variance should be of concern to management:..............................................5
D. recommendation and Suggestions to Twin Rivers Cafe:...................................................6
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................7
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................8

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
The analysis provides a complete report of the fluctuations between expected and current
revenue, expenditure and benefit estimates of the specific organization. This analysis
summarizes key plan modelling items within the Twin Rivers Café organization with the
intention of improving organization actual performance. More data includes major variability
behavior and client guidance or suggestions to reduce these deviations.
TASK
A. Objective of preparing a budget for Twin Rivers Café:
Budgets are forecasts of aggregate marketing / income and various costs associated
during the particular upcoming times pan and are usually made up and regularly assessed.
Economic plans are essential for complete activities of profitability (Yu, Miao and Leung, 2015).
An expenditure plan serves as an optical encoder enforced by overseeing employees at firms
including Twin Rivers Café and is often not required for reporting to external parties like
investors. Financial professionals take help of budgets as the primary tool of controlling costs
and revenue gaps. The higher the variability, the more cost control management help. Experts
can identify any inconsistencies among strategic cost and actual costs when trying to compare
the calculation with real numbers. A plan, besides allocation of resources, may also help set
goals, track development, and prepare contingencies. A well-designed expenditure plan or
budget plan allows a business to keep monitor of their financial location. It also allows
businesses to retain individual managers accountable to reduce expenditure and income
differences. It assists the cost accountants and strategic planners to form a sustainable planning
for future extensions through evaluating current administration expenses. Throughout this sense,
there are some main goals of budget planning as mentioned below:
Anticipate free cash flows: Plan is important for quickly-growing businesses, including
volatile income, or sales trends that are unpredictable. These companies find it difficult to
anticipate how cash they will have in the upcoming future, contributing to regular savings-related
issues (Boutilier and Lu, 2016).
Measurement efficiency: a standard purpose of creating a budget is to managing the cost
of operations by monitoring the use of financial resources. The data of past figures are
considered as financial measures to track the performance of departments. It not only reduce the

financial cost but also boost the performance and efficiency of workers ' productivity. By
comparing the gaps between the actual and anticipated revenue and expenditures key gaps are
found that reduce the productivity and management apply applicable strategy to fill the gap. It is
a challenging job, since staff try and change strategies to make things easier to meet their goals
and objectives (Maehara, Yabe and Kawarabayashi, 2015).
Providing framework: A budget schedule is significantly effective and beneficial in
terms of providing a company with guidance regarding the specific path to be taken. Thus, it
establishes the stage for determining about what action would be required further.
Design possibilities: If an entity has a set of happening paths that it can drop back down,
it can create a set of plans to forecast financial performance to each strategic path, each
concentrating on types of situations. It goal will contribute to highly unlikely results if the
director enables himself to be optimistic while integrating hypotheses into plan development.
Resource allocation: Most organizations, such as Twin Rivers Café, use the financial
planning process as a method to decide where and how to allocate money for various activities,
such as fixed cost acquisitions or operating daily expenses. While a lawful objective, these must
be fragmented combined with an assessment of capability limitations to determine in which
resources should be allocated (Dort, Schecroun and Standaert, 2016).
Decision-making tool: the plan's objective is to provide a financial framework for
decision-making processes. This helps to ensure that all business decisions are in line with the
targets set in the budget. Administrators can make economic or organizational judgements by
analyzing expenditure as well as any variance.
Revenue and investment predicted: This is the fundamental purpose of a spending plan
to efficiently and effectively anticipate organisational income, invoices and expenses. The
organization defines the basis for calculating income and expenses by constructing budget.
Economic vulnerability scanning: Budgeting is meant to enable the existing or new
business outcomes to be measured towards the forecast of business success, i.e. business that
meets expectations towards managing the business operations revenues and expenditures. It
permits the entity to monitor the overall results of the enterprise as it is on a specific time
duration (Giménez-Gómez, Teixidó-Figueras and Vilella, 2016).

B. Report showing the company’s revenue and spending variance for July along with
explanation:
Planning And Actual Budgets For The Month Ended July 31, 2018
Planning Actual Variance
Budgeted meals quantity(Qty.) 18000 17800 200
Revenue £ 81000 £ 80100 £ 900 A
Expenses:
Raw material (£ 2.40q) £ 43200 £ 42720 £ 480 F
Wages and salaries (£ 5 200+£ 0.30 q) £ 10600 £ 10540 £ 60 F
Utilities (£ 2 400 + £ 0.05 q) £ 3300 £ 3290 £ 10 F
Facility rent (£ 4 300) £ 4300 £ 5100 £ 800 A
Insurance (£ 2300) £ 2300 £ 2600 £ 300 A
Fuel £ 2480 £ 2490 £ 10 A
Net Operating Income £ 14820 £ 13360 £ 1460 A
In the above-mentioned document, F denotes favourable variability for the client whereas
a denotes unfavourable or adverse variation. While RM's expected expense is £ 43200 relative to
RM's cost, i.e. £ 42720 suggesting a favourable difference. Per that variance report, it was
analyzed that 17,800 devices were actually sold as compared to the scheduled revenue bases of
18,000 businesses, resulting in a negative variability in revenues of £ 900. The salaries and
incomes of the firm have recorded a favourable deviation of £ 60, and there is a costing of £ 10
in spending on services as planned. At the other hand, there have been detrimental differences of
£ 800, £ 300 and £ 10 in rent, benefits and gas facilities. The total net operating income of the
organization also indicates an unfavorable difference of £ 1460.
C. Activity of variance should be of concern to management:
Based on the review of this variance study, it was established that there are variance
activities in Twin Rivers Café which should be cantered by leadership in order to obtain planned
figures. First, Cafe has been unable to achieve desired revenue, resulting in an overall variability
in the operating profits of the organisation. Three expenses majorly enhanced the budgeted
figures and are increased compared to the coordinated figures also with volume of sales
reduction. Such costs were rent or lease, gas and charges of insurance coverage. There will be

significant differences in all such expenditures. Fuel costs are also higher than the level
budgeted. Lack of understanding of this big variation contributes to a decrease in the current
production output. Renting the facilities is £ 800 higher than expected. Although there is also
high insurance premiums are recorded high compared to expected amount. Officials will make
efforts to reduce any difference in variability in such operations. There is a significant question
about the unfavourable variation in sales numbers and quantities as this variability suggests that
the business cannot produce target profits.
D. recommendation and Suggestions to Twin Rivers Cafe:
According to defined goals, Twin Rivers Cafe is suffering with insufficient profits. And
administrators will concentrate on this field in the first place. Quarterly reports and also meetings
with senior management and leaders of departments to discuss such differences are the best way
to keep deviations. Developer and managers must also analyze the expected or planned revenues
in which to decide if the projected revenue is compatible with cafe's capability and performance.
Proposed revenue should also be calculated while evaluating potential effects on Cafe's company
from such factors. In deciding planned sales, no temporary effects, money supply effects as well
as other impact on the environment must also be considered Business will build plan based on
visitor, traveler, flight and consumer desires patterns as the business is involved in preparing
meals for travellers / residents and the business is located near the local airports.
In addition, in company, fixed expenditures like rent facilities and medical coverage are
also rising as sales increase is a prominent element. Optimizing certain expenses to minimize
variance difference and operating income is recommended here (Akai and Goto, 2018).
Optimizing such expenses to reduce the variability difference and operating income is
recommended here. Organization must identify their expenditures for effective analysis and
financial planning as gross and net. It is crucial for company to identify factors leading to higher
expenses in order to optimize these expenditures. Healthcare and Facilities must be regarded by
the organization as fixed costs that are not altered by fluctuating overall sales volume and
statistic. In addition, the organization will create control and approval for fees paid to fuel
expenditures in order to reduce fuel expenditures. Fuel cost permission can be controlled by the
organization with the goal of establishing an active internal management process. The
organization will update its existing exposure strategies by emphasizing expenditure
minimization.

CONCLUSION
It was outlined from the above analysis that planning for expenditures is an important
aspect of the organization that determines its quality and assigns variables that are
counterproductive to achieving defined goals. To order to increase and maintain financial
performance, leadership must consider various variations. Business can also submit plan findings
to determine the feasibility of such actions to different corporate choices.

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