Why are budgeting and bank accounts combined on one board?

agrinnall

RG2015 wrote: »

Thank you for your reply and I know that you are correct.

However, I deliberately posted here because this is where people post and choose to read about budgeting and banking. Far more people will read the post here than if I put it on the feedback board. Hence there will likely be a far greater reading and responding count.

I do hope that nobody moves the thread to a board that is far less frequented.

My reason for saying it would be better on the other board is that I would hope that MSE look at the threads on there and may possibly be in a position to do something about the subject (although I suspect that might happen when we see pigs overhead), which is very unlikely to happen while it's on B&B however much discussion there is.

datlex

Does seem strange this thread was moved. In my opinion there is too little on budgeting on the budgeting board!

RG2015

datlex wrote: »

Does seem strange this thread was moved. In my opinion there is too little on budgeting on the budgeting board!

I know it is a bit ironic but before I retired, my main responsibilities as a corporate financial professional were budgeting and bank accounts. I thought then that I had fallen into these areas quite randomly.

As a starter though on the budgeting theme, I have always found the terms budgeting and forecasting used synonymously when in fact they are quite different concepts. However, if I started a thread on this board with this theme I doubt anyone would find it relevant to a bank account board

RG2015

agrinnall wrote: »

My reason for saying it would be better on the other board is that I would hope that MSE look at the threads on there and may possibly be in a position to do something about the subject (although I suspect that might happen when we see pigs overhead), which is very unlikely to happen while it's on B&B however much discussion there is.

You raise some very good points and the more important issue is to persuade MSE to do something perhaps by encouraging a wider conversation.

Edit: I have just realised that the name of the board is far less important than extending the conversation on budgeting itself.