The phrase "develop a budget" is correct and can be used in written English.
It means to create or prepare a plan for how to allocate and spend money. Example: "As the new financial manager, my first task is to develop a budget for the upcoming fiscal year."
Third, have your children develop a budget.
Similarly, atmospheric scientists need to develop a "budget" for greenhouse gases.
He also offers timeless guidance: "Their homework assignment might be to develop a budget".
The federal government requires a state exchange to develop a budget, with "expected operating costs, revenues and expenditures".
… Speaker of the House J. Dennis Hastert has called on the House Budget Committee to develop a budget that would accommodate eliminating the federal debt by the year 2015.
The D.T.S.B. has reduced its staff - something absolutely new, to tell someone he has to lose his job," Neumann said - and is practically running on empty, waiting for a new coalition government to develop a budget.
Topics and practical exercises include budgeting, identifying money wasters, keeping a spending diary, developing a budget and top tips for spending less.
Senators are also developing a budget at a time when more Texans are realizing how the proposed budget cuts could affect them.
The difficulties the budget faces create a challenge for Shanahan, a businessman and engineer who has spent nearly two years at the Pentagon helping craft a strategy to reshape the military and developing a budget to execute that plan.
A spokesman for the White House did not immediately confirm whether a budget increase is planned, saying that the process of developing a budget is complicated and has not been completed.
Nair had never been on a movie set, never made a feature film, never developed a budget, and had no access to real funding, though, by even a modest estimate, she would need almost a million dollars.
