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zero-base budgeting
noun
- a process in government and corporate finance of justifying an overall budget or individual budgeted items each fiscal year or each review period rather than dealing only with proposed changes from a previous budget. : ZBB
Word History and Origins
Origin of zero-base budgeting1
Example Sentences
Zero-base budgeting should account for every penny you bring in, but just because it’s budgeted doesn’t mean it has to be spent.
Mr. Stefanowski would take an ax to the state’s spending with an approach known as zero-base budgeting, with no sacred cows.
He said he wants the school system to rein in spending by implementing zero-base budgeting and by evaluating programs to determine their worth.
What’s clear is the 3G method of zero-base budgeting — a cost-cutting mentality that calls on employees to think of company dollars as their own — has changed the historically stodgy processed-food industry, forcing other food companies to sharpen their own knives in order to compete.
More recently, Kellogg has been rolling out zero-base budgeting internationally.
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