Budget Time

Just some brief Notes From The Cube . . .

November is rolling around, time for harvests in the heartland, Halloween candy for the next two weeks (candy corn never eaten), a couple of off-year elections that no one will show up to vote for, Turkey Day - and annual Budget time.

Come November we'll be looking at next year and trying to find ways to financially justify our wish lists. This will involve catching up on all that record-keeping that wasn't done for the past 10 months, figuring out what will be carryover to next year that can avoid too much scrutiny, and what we need to do to reach company goals.

[This is a "royal" We - since we will be doing the grunt work spreadsheeting to find $$$ justifications, and help management catch-up on its neglected admin paperwork, and put it all together into a coherent mass - we will not be doing the wishing, however.]

'Slight flaw in the system: we work in coordination with several other departments - but each department makes up its wish lists independently.

And the Budget is based on the wish lists.

We shall see where this will lead.