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LestingRegionalAuthority(LRA)isresponsiblefortheprovisionofawiderangeofservicesintheLestingregion,whichisbasedinthesouthofthecountry‘Alaia’.Theseservicesinclude,amongstotherthings,responsibilityforresidents’welfare,schools,housing,hospitals,roadsandwastemanagement.
OverrecentmonthstheLestingregionexperiencedthehottesttemperaturesonrecord,resultinginseveralforestfires,whichcauseddamagetoseveralschoolsandsomelocalroads.Unfortunately,thesehottemperatureswerethenfollowedbyflooding,whichleftanumberofresidentswithouthomesandsawhigherthanusualnumbersofadmissionstohospitalsduetotheoutbreakofdisease.Thesehospitalswerefullandsomepatientsweretreatedintents.Residentshavebeencomplainingforsomeyearsthatanewhospitalisneededinthearea.
Priortotheseevents,theLRAwasproudlyleadingthewayinanewapproachtowastemanagement,withtheintroductionofitsnew‘WasteRecyclingScheme.’Twoyearsago,itbeganphase1oftheschemeandhalfofitsresidentswereissuedwithdifferentcolouredwastebinsfordifferenttypesofwaste.Thefinalphasewasduetobegininonemonth’stime.ThecostofprovidingthenewwastebinsissignificantbutLRA’sfocushasalwaysbeenonthelong-termsavingsbothtotheenvironmentandintermsofreducedwastedisposalcosts.
TheLRAisabouttobeginpreparingitsbudgetforthecomingfinancialyear,whichstartsinonemonth’stime.Overrecentyears,zero-basedbudgeting(ZBB)hasbeenintroducedatanumberofregionalauthoritiesinAlaiaand,giventhedemandonresourceswhichLRAfacesthisyear,itisconsideringwhethernowwouldbeagoodtimetointroduceit.
Required:
(a)Describethemainstepsinvolvedinpreparingazero-basedbudget.(3marks)
(b)DiscusstheproblemswhichtheLestingRegionalAuthority(LRA)mayencounterifitdecidestointroduceanduseZBBtoprepareitsbudgetforthecomingfinancialyear.(9marks)
(c)OutlineTHREEpotentialbenefitsofintroducingzero-basedbudgetingattheLRA.(3marks)
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