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Annual Budget Builder.

Build a full-year budget from your assumptions, specific enough to steer by, that either balances or shows exactly where and why it does not.

After the Budget Assumptions Worksheet, in Build and Run the Budget.

Lay out income across the year

Enter each source, and when in the year it actually arrives, not just the annual total.

Source

Annual amount

When it lands (which months)

Lay out spending by program or function

Program or function

Annual cost

When it is spent

Shared and overhead costs (rent, insurance, administration)

The bottom line

Total income

Total spending

Surplus or shortfall

Stress-check before you finish

Does this match last year's actuals where it should, or have you assumed a change you cannot justify?

Can you afford the timing, not just the annual total? Look for months where spending lands before income does

Is there anything set aside toward a reserve, even a small line?

The gate on a shortfall

If honest income does not cover required spending, do not invent a number to balance it. Name the gap and decide: raise more (route to the funding work), spend less (return to your priorities), or, if neither will close it, face the deficit question and mission clarity and strategic direction. A budget balanced with a made-up number is worse than an honest one that shows a gap.

Built from the Budget Assumptions Worksheet. Feeds the Budget Adoption Checklist and the Budget-versus-Actual Review. A tight-timing result routes to the Cash-Flow Forecast.

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