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Zero-based budgeting

Zero-based budgeting (ZBB) is a budgeting method that requires all expenses to be justified and approved in each new budget period. It was developed by Peter Pyhrr in the 1970s. This budgeting method analyzes an organization's needs and costs by starting from a "zero base" (meaning no funding allocation) at the beginning of every period. The intended…

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Zero-based budgeting → act of starting budgets from scratch or requiring each program or activity to be justified from the ground up
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