Capital budgeting is a step by step process an organization use to evaluate the merits and
viabilities of long-term investment project. The evaluation techniques used in capital budgeting
essentially center on the costs of investments relative to the benefits that will be generate from
the investment. Capital budgeting is important because its “decisions impact the firm for several
years” (Capital Budgeting, 2009) so, they must be carefully planned.
The VDOT, as many organizations, uses capital budgeting to enable the organization to estimate
and forecast its revenues, monitor and control expenditure, and look out for new investment
projects to plan, deliver, operate and maintain a transportation system that is safe, enables
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Richmond, 2014).
The agency’s payroll increase 2 percent ($7,763,878), 4 percent ($15,527,757) or 5 percent ($19,409,696) for the year 2014 can improve employee’s satisfaction and play a distinctive role, especially at 5 percent increase, on how well employees perform. However, the increase in salaries especially at 4 and 5 percent can greatly affect the organization budget as the agency total expenditure is already greater that its revenue.
2014
2014 ( 2% )
2014 ( 4%)
2014 (5%)
Total Payroll
$388,193,923
$395,957,801
$403,721,680
$407,603,619
Increase
$7,763,878 $15,527,757 $19,409,696
Trend Analysis Over the past five years, the Virginia Department of Transportation has conducting larger
numbers of projects and studies to find the need, costs and impacts of proposed projects in the
State, but also worked and still working to “preserve the public’s investment through the delivery
of an effective and efficient statewide maintenance program to protect and enhance the
transportation infrastructure and the safety of the traveling public” (Fiscal Year, 2013). Just
looking into the VDOT two largest programs, the highway maintenance and operation (38%),
and the highway construction (37%), we notice that funds allocated for each program has yearly
changed. In 2015 for instance we have a decrease of about 26 percent on the construction
program compares to 2014, and a projected increase of about 83 percent in 2016 compare
592 Week 1 DQ 1 WBS Construction PROJ 592 Week 1 DQ 2 Project Cost Estimates and Assumptions PROJ 592 Week 2 DQ 1 Cost Components PROJ 592 Week 2 DQ 2 Estimating Processes PROJ 592 Week 3 DQ 1 Project Schedules PROJ 592 Week 3 DQ 2 Sensitivity Analysis PROJ 592 Week 4 DQ 1 Resource Allocation and Leveling PROJ 592 Week 4 DQ 2 Advanced Schedule Techniques PROJ 592 Week 5 DQ 1 Earned Value Calculation PROJ 592 Week 5 DQ 2 Project Monitoring and Control & EV PROJ 592 Week 6 DQ 1 Forecasting Project Completion Cost PROJ 592 Week 6 DQ 2 Project Control PROJ 592
in Japsen, 2013). The brief also reported that the number of physicians accepting Medicare rose from
Capital planning and budgeting is a very vital piece in the Public Budgeting System process. It is an essential implement in the financial management practice and is effective in both public and private organizations. It is the method which consists of the determination and the evaluation of the investments and the possible expenses by an organization. As explicate by Lee, Johnson, & Joyce (2008), capital budgets help in determining how much of each form of investment is needed, and it supports an organization in assessing the available revenue which includes loans is required to finance those investments (p. 475). Capital budgeting is a central part of the universal
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