What is a budget based on?

What is a budget? A budget is a spending plan based on income and expenses. In other words, it’s an estimate of how much money you’ll make and spend over a certain period of time, such as a month or year. (Or, if you're accounting for the incoming and outgoing money of everyone in your household, that's a family budget.)

What does a budget mean in microeconomics?

A budget is a microeconomic concept that reveals the trade-off made when one good is exchanged for another. In terms of the bottom line—or the end result of this trade-off—a surplus budget means profits are anticipated, a balanced budget means revenues are expected to equal expenses, and a deficit budget means expenses will exceed revenues.

Why is budget important?

Budget is an essential element in the planning and control of the financial affairs of a nation and is made necessarily (and essentially) because income and expenditure do not occur simultaneously (i.e., income or revenue receipts and expenditure flows do not always coincide).