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	Partial Budget Analysis	Enterprise Budgeting
Field	Food Agriculture Studies	Food Agriculture Studies
Family	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Year of origin	1988	1984
Originator	CIMMYT Economics Program	Farm management tradition (Kay, Edwards & Duffy; Boehlje & Eidman)
Type	Marginal partial-budgeting pipeline for a single farm change	Full-cost enterprise budgeting pipeline with per-unit cost of production
Seminal source	CIMMYT Economics Program. (1988). From Agronomic Data to Farmer Recommendations: An Economics Training Manual (Completely Revised Edition). Mexico, D.F.: International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT). ISBN: 9789686127188	Kay, R. D., Edwards, W. M., & Duffy, P. A. (2020). Farm Management (9th ed.). New York: McGraw-Hill Education. ISBN: 9781259837463
Aliases	Partial Budgeting, Farm Partial Budget, Marginal Budget Analysis, CIMMYT Partial Budget	Enterprise Budget, Crop and Livestock Budget, Cost of Production Budget, Full-Cost Enterprise Analysis
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Summary	Partial budget analysis is a marginal method of farm management economics that evaluates the profitability of a single, well-defined change to a farm plan — adopting a new variety, adding an irrigation, switching a feed ration — without rebuilding the whole-farm budget. Codified for agronomic recommendation work in the CIMMYT Economics Program's 1988 manual From Agronomic Data to Farmer Recommendations, it rests on a simple insight: only the costs and revenues that actually change need to be counted. The analyst arranges those changes into four cells — added revenue and reduced costs on the positive side, reduced revenue and added costs on the negative side — and the net of the two columns is the change in profit attributable to the change alone.	An enterprise budget is a complete, per-unit projection of the revenues and costs of a single farm enterprise — a crop per hectare, a class of livestock per head — that, unlike a gross margin, accounts for both variable and fixed costs to arrive at net return and the full cost of production. Standard in farm management texts such as Kay, Edwards, and Duffy and Boehlje and Eidman, enterprise budgeting forces every claim on the enterprise's resources to be priced: not just seed and fertiliser, but depreciation, interest, land charge, and overhead. The headline outputs are net return per unit and the unit cost of production, the break-even price and yield that tell a manager what it really takes for the enterprise to pay its way.