[Info-vax] Ask the Wizard archives?

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 5/27/2019 8:40 PM, Dave Froble wrote:
> On 5/27/2019 7:42 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>> On 5/25/2019 10:16 AM, Dave Froble wrote:
>>> On 5/23/2019 10:37 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>>>> Not true in well managed organizations.
>>>
>>> Let me know when you find one of these ....
>>>
>>> Not holding my breath waiting ....
>>
>> You are running your own company.
>>
>> So let me ask: does your company run like
>> described by Kerry - CAPEX is a problem -
>> no one cares about OPEX?
> 
> Not really a good question.  I am my company, and costs are all the same 
> to me.

Fair enough.

> What Kerry's talking about is larger companies where there are such 
> divisions of responsibility.

CAPEX and OPEX budgets actually get approved by the same people
in large companies - they are just administered by different people.

Operations can not increase their own OPEX budget.

Operations can sometimes shift things around within the given
OPEX budget.

> The actual question is, do we "expense" it, or set it up on a 
> depreciation schedule.

Yes. And there may be strong business opinions about one versus
the other.

But it is not like "nobody cares about OPEX".

Arne