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What is Annual Operation Planning (AOP) ? How is it different from the forecasting?

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Question added by Nitin Gupta, ACA , FP&A , Rockwell Automation
Date Posted: 2013/11/07

 

Annual Operation Planning (AOP) A detailed projection of all estimated income and expenses based on forecasted sales revenue during one year     to identify, communicate and monitor progress on key priorities for the year that advance the strategic plan

 

the forcecasting  is  a planning tool that helps management in its attempts to cope with the uncertainty of the future, relying mainly on data from the past and present and analysis of trends for more than one year.

Mohammad Tohamy Hussein Hussein
by Mohammad Tohamy Hussein Hussein , Chief Executive Officer & ERP Architect , Egyptian Software Group

AOP is the game plan for the coming12 months. Who is going to do what and when and performance measures. Forecasting is one of the inputs to AOP. It represents the expected demand for your products/services. AOP represents the supply plan of the expected demand.

Menerva Melad
by Menerva Melad , Account Executive, Key Accounts , Graphic Home Company

Annual Operation Planning (AOP) A detailed projection of all estimated income and expenses based on forecasted sales revenue during one year

Aziz ur Rehman ur Rehman
by Aziz ur Rehman ur Rehman , Assistant Manager Finance , Central Power Puchasing Agency (CPPA)

as for as my understanding about this topic 

Annual Operational Planning means plan to perform the  variance analysis  of actual  with forcasted figures and fixed the limits or tolrate limt of these variance from focasted figures.

 Foracsting  is the technique to prepare the profrma finacial statements for the next period it could be the one year or3 to5 years.

 

 

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Ramadan Aboutaleb
by Ramadan Aboutaleb , Vice President, Finance & Administration , Badrahn Enterprises Co, Ltd. (Group of companies)

 

The annual operational planning = the year budget.

The forecasting is the technique to prepare the budget if the company new established (no historical data)and also to set the target of seals and revenue more over to built the projection or business plan.

 

 

Souad Jallad
by Souad Jallad , IDEAL STANDARD GULF

Once the financial objectives have been set, it is possible to prepare and agree a budget.

A budget should relate the overall plan in figures. It is differenct from a forecast in the sense that the plan, and therefore the budget, sets minimum requirements, whereas forecast is usually an expectation of what is likely to happen.

Khaled Abdelrehim ACCA DipIFR CMA
by Khaled Abdelrehim ACCA DipIFR CMA , Financial Analysis Assistant General Manager , Khalda Petroleum Company

AOP is the planning of the operating activities of the company based on its sales budget. Forecasting is the technique used in planning.

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