'Planning looks ahead and controlling looks back'. Comment.

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Planning involves setting objectives and deciding the future course of action to achieve them. Thus, it is regarded as forward-looking. Controlling involves a post-mortem of the past activities of an enterprise and finding out deviations from the targeted standard. Thus, it is regarded as a backward-looking function.

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