Capital budgeting core is to evaluate the feasibility of a new long-term use of an idea. Future plans involve actual and perception costs.
Accountants listen carefully to the many inputs to begin capital budgeting. That capital budget plan is founded in the seeds of an idea from research and development activity in a business. The activity may or may not be formalised. Nimble responses to market development can make or break a small business.
When a plan of any idea is developed, it always is best to include the accountants at the beginning. Why? Investment is not always about profitability margin. Sure, that is very important in business. So is community perception which drives the purchasing of the idea.
Accountants not only will apply costs of developing an idea. They will apply contingency cost to the unexpected consequence of an idea that simply is not a great fit to the community perception. In the keenness to get a launch up and running and ahead of the opposition, lack of a fully costed plan is akin leads to many unintended outcomes.
Give creating a plan with accountants a go, you never know!
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