"budget exercise" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to an activity or task in which a person or group sets financial goals and plans areas for spending and saving. For example, "The finance director held a budget exercise to identify ways in which the company could save money."
In effect, the budget exercise would start where it usually ends, with a House-Senate conference.
As part of a budget exercise, the borough delegations were asked to submit a property tax increase each could live with.
But with a swiftness that has taken many here by surprise, the state's energy shortages and halting economic growth have transformed the annual budget exercise into a symbol of how deeply the power crisis is starting to divide the state.
Perhaps more relevant for this budgeting exercise, though, is the fact that "foreign aid" represents less than 1percentt of the federal budget, or about $36.5 billion planned for fiscal 2017.
Now is clearly the time to undertake a holistic budgeting exercise and a comprehensive public discussion of federal finances without the political rancor that we have recently been subjected to by all sides of the political spectrum.
TfL needs to go through a zero base budgeting exercise and a fair few activities need to be chopped out and its focus brought back to making a few key transport modes cheaper, more reliable and more comfortable for Londoners, not least walking and cycling.
Similarly, how do we measure the value of commenting in a discussion forum or participating in a participatory budgeting exercise?
Beyond Budget companies ditch the traditional annual budgeting exercise – a lengthy, contentious activity that becomes moot at the moment something unexpected occurs – with rolling forecasts and continuous planning that map to marketplace ups and downs.
Financial responsibility should not be thought of as a once-a-year theoretical budgeting exercise.
The budgeting exercise can also help you to look for opportunities to save money as you look closely at monthly expenses.
Cost data for CDA were estimated based on its actual pre-testing expenditures as presented in the 2014 financial expenditure records of the CRSN in local currency and the planning and budgeting exercise for survey implementation in 2014.
