Thesis (M.A.) from the year 2010 in the subject Business economics - Accounting and Taxes, grade: C, Copenhagen Business School (Institut for Regnskab og Revision. RR), course: Finance, language: Danish, abstract: Beyond Budgeting came up as a "solution" to the growing criticism of the traditional way of budgeting. Jeremy Hope and Robin Fraser founded Beyond Budgeting, with the establishment of "Beyond Budgeting Round Table - BBRT". The members of "BBRT" included companies such as Svenska Handelsbanken, Borealis, IKEA, Volvo and others. Other companies had also engaged in a financial management without budgets and more in the direction of the method behind Beyond Budgeting. Briefly deals Beyond Budgeting with the abolition of the traditional annual budget for a new budgeting method. The key words for such an accomplishment, is a more adaptable organization with more confidence between the vertical organizational structures. This is achieved through adaptive management principles and a radical decentralization, which is supposed to give employees more authority and confidence to make competent decisions. That is one of the reasons why we found it interesting to find out how it is different, and what it has to offer compared to the traditional way of budgeting. The purpose of this thesis is to compare and analyze the two budgeting methods - traditional budgeting and Beyond Budgeting, to see how they differ from each other and where they can compliment ea...