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				<title type="subject" xml:lang="en" sort="Business and Economics in Developing Countries">Business and Economics in Developing Countries</title>
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				<title type="title">BUDGETING PRACTICES OF SELECTED SMALL AND MEDIUM ENTERPRISES (SMEs) IN LUCENA CITY : AN INPUT FOR BUDGET MANAGEMENT PLAN</title>
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			<copyright ownership="publisher">Copyright © 2017 Zibeline International Publishing</copyright>
			<doi origin="zibeline international publishing" registered="yes">http://doi.org/10.26480/bedc.01.2025.35.37</doi>
			<issn type="online">2990-9449</issn>
           
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				<event type="publication_date" date="27-11-2025"/>
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						<editorNames>Rowena B. Nieva</editorNames>
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		    <keyword>Budgeting practices, SMEs, profitability, resource allocation, information technology, strategic planning, 
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	      <pages>35-37</pages>
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					<p>This study aims to measure the budgeting practices of some Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in Lucena 
City and to uncover some insights that would guide the formulation of budget management strategies. In this 
section, we define the key sub-problems as follows; managerial accountants’ budgeting practices, impact of 
profitability, impacts of cost control and impacts of decision-making. Important budgeting practices to 
evaluate are managerial support, strategic goals consistent with the development of the budget, realistic 
allocation of resources, adaptability, continuous improvement, reducing complexity and technology 
integration. The data was obtained from a survey conducted into the involvement of managerial accountants 
in budgeting, their association with strategy and the distribution of resources, as well as their use of 
technology in the SMEs sector. This implies a pattern of strategy integration and resource allocation for the 
SMEs that involved the managerial team in the decision process itself. Moreover, technology is assumed to 
enhance decision-making and operational efficiency in the budgeting phase, which seem advantageous. In 
view of the fact that decision making, adjusting to the changing environment, remaining flexible, and the 
continuous learning process towards better efficiency and performance are the three things that SMEs must 
be committed to in order to sustenance and improve their financial performance and strategic coherence, 
this paper argues that SMEs need to adopt sound budgeting practices. These recommendations emphasize 
the need for greater managerial involvement in planning and allocation, and also recommend information 
technology to facilitate effective and refined budgeting strategies. Such research has been important for SMEs 
most especially to improve their budgetary management abilities to scale their productivity. Aside from the 
improvement of the budgeting process, the results of this study can also be useful, as the budgetary functions 
conducted in this research will be useful for reducing costs and help SMEs to improve.</p>
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