Traditional budgeting is now ingrained in all areas of organisational activity. However despite its objective of planning for future operations, traditional incremental budgeting has been criticised for relying on past information as a basis of future targets. The whole purpose and function of budgeting therefore has been called into question.

Requirement

Review the budgeting literature to outline the criticisms of traditional incremental budgeting and the arguments in relation to whether budgeting needs to be maintained and improved (mention any techniques that you have found to do this) or whether it is time to scrap the budgeting process completely.