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11.2. Statement of the NeedFinancial planning is something that everyone does. The basic tool of financial planning is the budget. But unlike the home budget, the budget of a large corporation is managed at multiple levels within the organization. Sure, at some level, the board, the CEO, and the CFO decide that "we will spend X million dollars for operations for this quarter," but that is the start of the process, not the end. From there, the feeding frenzy of middle management begins. And keeping track of things becomes an important aspect of financial control and corporate governance. Realistically, any large business will already have processes and tools in place that meet this need. We are not expecting that what we develop here will be anything that a business will actually adopt to manage this process. Rather, our goal is to illustrate some methods of software development that actually work to build real Java application. The outline of methods and code could be used to address many classes of enterprise software. |
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