Today most businesses, especially small businesses follow an earn-and-spend as-you-go strategy, which clearly lack financial discipline. Most businesses do not keep their focus on accounting or profit or loss; they just are run by the feeling either they are profiting or losing. A good budget covering most company activities can take your business to new direction.

A good company budget can,

• Tell you from where money is coming and to where it is going.
• Tell you how much profit/loss is expected at the year/term end.
• Lets you to bring all company things under one roof; including those concerned with money, products, employees, systems, customers, etc.
• Helps you in figuring out your liabilities, prioritizing and paying off them.
• Helps you to focus on profitable opportunities and to reduce/eliminate money wasting.
• Gives an opportunity to rethink on various business practices of your company.
• Provides you information about where you can find money for a process/task and information about expected spending on each task.
• Lets you to understand factors resulting in big differences such as taxes, loan interests, wages, advanced system requirements etc.
• Lets you to figure out the net asset of company, capital in hand, growth rate, compatibility, etc.
• Budgeting provides you more power when negotiating dealings or managing various business tasks.