I've never understood the 'spend it or lose it' idea of budgets.

(Captain Placid 24/7 ball gags, brownie mix and clown porn, Mon 30 Dec 2013, 11:32, 1 reply, 11 years ago)

It's very simple.
If you don't use that money, then you can get by without it. So they reduce your budget and re-allocate it somewhere else. Perhaps to profit margins, as I don't think budgeted money is counted as a margin, but as wastage. Or perhaps to another department that does need more money. Or to director bonuses.

I imagine you don't understand it because your 1960s miner mentality still has one of its commie-loving feet in t'fockin' pit.
( Kroney, Mon 30 Dec 2013, 11:54, Reply)

Could also be seen as short-sighted and short-termist
Maybe if the budget was rolled over and added to, the department could afford better equipment and become more efficient/profitable, thereby increasing the profits of the company, leading to more money coming in and enhanced bonuses/margins/potential to prop up other departments.
Just a thought.
(Captain Placid 24/7 ball gags, brownie mix and clown porn, Mon 30 Dec 2013, 12:28, Reply)