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Vanity: Is Musk Doing a "ZBB" Accounting of the Fed Gov?
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Posted on 02/05/2025 2:27:32 PM PST by TigerClaws

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To: TigerClaws

“An operating, planning, and budgeting process that requires each manager to justify their entire budget request in detail from scratch (hence zero-based) and shift the burden of proof to each manager to justify why they should spend any money at all.”

1. “But that’s the way we’ve always done! We have to keep doing it!”
2. “But we’ve sunk so much money in XYZ. We can’t walk away now and leave all that money behind.” (the “Sunk Cost Fallacy”)


21 posted on 02/05/2025 4:10:55 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (They were the FA-est of times, they were the FO-est of times.)
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To: TigerClaws

One of the problems with ZBB is that most people involved in developing budgets have no idea how “that expense got there”. Explaining the concept of “cost driver” to midlevel managers is much like teaching a dog to type an original thought.


22 posted on 02/05/2025 4:52:15 PM PST by Bernard (Issue an annual budget. And Issue a federal government balance sheet. Let's see what we got.)
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To: Salamander

You had to go there ... der Fuhrer


23 posted on 02/05/2025 5:07:27 PM PST by RainMan ((Democrats ... making war against America since April 12, 1861))
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To: Bernard

Helped companies like Microsoft do sales budgeting for years. They do “Top down/bottom up” where leadership creates top down revenue expectations. Staff creates bottom up of what they would be comfortable committing to. Final budget is after negotiating differences.


24 posted on 02/05/2025 5:10:03 PM PST by RainMan ((Democrats ... making war against America since April 12, 1861))
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Blue Oyster Cult fan.

Forget the cowbell.

I need more pointless ümläüts.

😀


25 posted on 02/05/2025 9:58:53 PM PST by Salamander (Please visit my profile page to help me go home again. https://www.givesendgo.com/GCRRD)
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