The Importance of Operating Budgets in Estimating the Revenues and Expenses in the Industrial Companies Operated in the Aqaba Special Economic Zone Authority

Abstract

Abstract

    The study aimed to investigate the importance of budgets in estimating the revenues and expenses in the industrial companies operated in the Aqaba Special Economic Zone Authority as an attempt to fined the solution and recommendations which increase the budgets efficiency in estimate of revenues and expenses. The researchers designed a questionnaire for collecting needed data, the questionnaires were analyzed statistically to test the hypotheses and analyzed the results.

 The most important of the study's results; that the budgets are a financial and quantitative achievement of the objectives, There is an organizational and accounting structure to identify the items of the operating activities in the budgets, using budgets leads to distributing the available resources on the productive departments accurately and in preparing budgets, there is a standard costs system for identifying the production costs as well as the operating activities.

    The recommendations of this study represent in use the statistical methods in estimating the revenues and costs when preparing the operating budgets, the revenues budget (income) should be taken care of and it should be considered as the main tool for linking all the production activities with the operating objectives, budgets should be prepared in an organizational and accounting structure and depend on all the administrative levels in identifying the available resources on the operating activities