You are the manager of a medical- surgical unit. Today is April 1st, and the fiscal year began on July 1st. You work with a variable budget and have the opportunity to make changes to the current budget based on variance. You cannot go over the total budgeted amount assigned to you. Your budget is presented below.

	Annual Budget	Expended in March	Expended Year to Date	Amount Remaining
Personnel	500,000	25,000	375,000	125,000
Overtime	50,000	20,000	40,000	10,000
Supplies	18,000	1,800	16,500	1,500
Travel	1,000	0	300	700
Equipment	5,000	0	5,000	0
Staff education	1,000	200	600	400

Several factors that you must consider include: 

1. You have been told to decrease your overtime expenditure. 

2. Your unit has been designated as the unit to accept nursing home patients which will increase the cost of supplies 

3. Your full-time night nurse has resigned and needs to be replaced. In order to hire new nurses a 16 hour orientation would be required. 

4. You would like two nurses to attend a train the trainer workshop for a cost of $1000 each.

Questions: 

1. How you will address these requests based on the budget print out. 

2. What expenses can be deferred to the new fiscal year. For the new fiscal year, I would defer What budgeting area was your previous projections most accurate. What budgeting area was your previous projections most inaccurate. Factors that may have contributed to situations of being over budget as determined by variance.

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