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!
You usually can’t plausibly use personnel as equipment, either.
It’s a government agency, so I’m assuming government finances.