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Originally Posted by Azure
I edited my post, but to answer your question, considering private businesses TRY at ALL times to turn a profit, I would imagine that rampant spending from department to department on things not needed would be caught and shut down pretty quickly unless the business wants to go bankrupt or management fired.
Governments don't think that way, and I know here in Manitoba despite the constant deficit spending and possibility of a credit rating downgrade, there is absolutely NO attention being paid to the fact that there are places to cut spending, but nobody wants to shut down the government freebies.
I personally know of schools that bought a bunch of iPads with extra school board funding and they only had to 'cite' educational reasons. Now some of the iPads are being used for personal reasons that have nothing to do with school work.
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I don't doubt this at all. Thing is there are dozens of examples like that in the private sector. I have a tablet for business, and while I do definitely use it for that I also have no qualms about using it for personal things as well that have nothing to do with business. Private business isn't some bastion of efficiency and keeping all of the expenses for business only.
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Originally Posted by crazy_eoj
Every private business department I have ever worked in has zero based budgeting. Each and every expense is approved. Pretty much unheard of in the public sector.
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The province has moved to zero based budgeting over the past year or two I thought?