Spent a good part of the day trying to understand exactly what is wanted of me with respect to budgeting. I know how to figure out estimates of what my responsibilities will be for the next year, including labor and consultants and materials, … The estimates may not be right in the end, but I try. What I have a dickens of a time with is what is operating and what is capital budget. Seems like an easy concept, but there is a certain point at which my brain freezes. I think it started when they told me I had a great breakdown, but the labor costs were included in salaries, so they didn’t really count. Of course, a good portion of most of my projects is labor. But, then, it was added that labor on capital budgets do get counted and taken out of salaries. OK ….. Now just need to be clear on which parts are capitalizable and which are not ….
It was not the most exciting afternoon.
Sometimes I am reminded of when Rey was young and learning early math. The decimal point was like a wall. Moving to numbers less than 1 was a real challenge. I am pretty sure he did finally get it figured out, but that is what I remember when I get stumped. It is so clear to most, and a tremendously high wall to me.
Raincharm's Weblog 
October 31, 2009 at 10:18 am |
I am way too far down on the totem pole to have anything to do with budgets at work but we recently went through a bout of trying to capitalize everything under the sun. Insane stuff.
Just tell me what you want me to design/code/write so I can do my job, fer kee-reist.