budget manual 预算指南,预算手册
a series of instructions on how departments in a company should prepare their budgets for the following year.The manual helps standardize how the company prepares its aggregated budget.Items usually appearing in a budget manual include a budget planning calendar and distribution instructions for all budget schedules.Distribution instructions are important because,once a schedule is prepared;other departments in the organization use the schedule to prepare their own budgets.Without distribution instructions,someone who needs a particular schedule might be overlooked.