Capital asks - not revenue
This campaign tip (no. 18) was published on Friday, 18th January 2019
Consider there two:
a) Can we have Capital funding of £1000 please
b) Can we have £1000 per year of annual support please
Same ask, right?
Wrong! If you campaign / ask for ?1000, that's ?1000 - if you campaign / ask for ?1000 per year for 15 years, that comes in at about ?23,000 with a 5% per annum allowance for inflation / loss of other earning on that money. Revenue is much more expensive "pound for pound" than capital. And note:
* You have nothing to show at for all your revenue spend - nothing to say "here is what we bought"
* Revenue spend is not earning you big political / popularity points as it's largely hidden
* With revenue spend you are seting much more of a precent that's difficult to stop
Let's see the maths ... Python program below into which you can plug your own parameters.
Result ...
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a) Can we have Capital funding of £1000 please
b) Can we have £1000 per year of annual support please
Same ask, right?
Wrong! If you campaign / ask for ?1000, that's ?1000 - if you campaign / ask for ?1000 per year for 15 years, that comes in at about ?23,000 with a 5% per annum allowance for inflation / loss of other earning on that money. Revenue is much more expensive "pound for pound" than capital. And note:
* You have nothing to show at for all your revenue spend - nothing to say "here is what we bought"
* Revenue spend is not earning you big political / popularity points as it's largely hidden
* With revenue spend you are seting much more of a precent that's difficult to stop
Let's see the maths ... Python program below into which you can plug your own parameters.
Result ...
Almira:jan19 grahamellis$ python capex 10 1.05 1000.0 "Can we have 1000.00" - Capital 1000.00 or Revenue 13206.79 over 10 years Almira:jan19 grahamellis$ |
import sys # Set initial parameters try: years = int(sys.argv[1]) except: years = 15 try: growth = float(sys.argv[2]) except: growth = 1.05 try: amount = float(sys.argv[3]) except: amount = 1000.00 # Calculate for given values revenueSpend = 0 grownTo = 1.0 for k in range(years): grownTo *= growth revenueSpend += grownTo * amount # Print results print ('"Can we have {0:.2f}" - Capital {0:.2f} or Revenue {1:.2f} over {2} years' .format(amount,revenueSpend,years))
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