Well, they might have a limited personnel budget, but when you work with these sorts of people you tend to replace furniture at quite a high rate; therefore, it stands to reason that they would have quite a large budget for furniture.
This is indeed creative financing, bureaucracy style. Mind you, outright use of personnel funds for equipment and vice versa is normally a hard to hide [from internal auditors, if any] no-no.
Loans that are paid back between the Peter fund/pot and the Paul one, on the other hand, are easy so long as your funding agency/council/whatever is friendly.
And if they are friendly enough, a new fund can exist for 25 years, started with a ‘loan’ from an unrelated fund, with no plausible plan to repay the loan. Nope, not talking about my employer, nope, no sirree!
How does that work? I mean, doesn’t Skin Horse just have a fix budget each year that is no more or no less? Or is this government finances at work?
Well, they might have a limited personnel budget, but when you work with these sorts of people you tend to replace furniture at quite a high rate; therefore, it stands to reason that they would have quite a large budget for furniture.
This is indeed creative financing, bureaucracy style. Mind you, outright use of personnel funds for equipment and vice versa is normally a hard to hide [from internal auditors, if any] no-no.
Loans that are paid back between the Peter fund/pot and the Paul one, on the other hand, are easy so long as your funding agency/council/whatever is friendly.
And if they are friendly enough, a new fund can exist for 25 years, started with a ‘loan’ from an unrelated fund, with no plausible plan to repay the loan. Nope, not talking about my employer, nope, no sirree!
It’s a government agency, so I’m assuming government finances.