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Spreadsheet for a children's home
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flyer said:elsien said:Honestly, I’d be chucking this one back at the owner. If they want the manager to do a half decent job then they need to provide the tools for you to do so.(Ex/care home manager here.)1
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PHK said:flyer said:elsien said:Honestly, I’d be chucking this one back at the owner. If they want the manager to do a half decent job then they need to provide the tools for you to do so.(Ex/care home manager here.)If you have an accountant you need to make sure that your records satisfy him and are compatible with his systems.No reliance should be placed on the above! Absolutely none, do you hear?2
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How does a monthly food budget work, anyway? Say there’s a really great deal on canned tuna, so you buy a year’s worth. Do you then have to tell the children that they can’t have milk for the rest of the month, as you have used the food budget up buying tuna for the next year?No reliance should be placed on the above! Absolutely none, do you hear?0
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GDB2222 said:How does a monthly food budget work, anyway? Say there’s a really great deal on canned tuna, so you buy a year’s worth. Do you then have to tell the children that they can’t have milk for the rest of the month, as you have used the food budget up buying tuna for the next year?
A simple running total on a spreadsheet won't do that.
Normally, with regular expenditure (like meals) there is a budgeted overall cost to the business of buying ingredients (or constituent parts) but this is based on a budget of £x per meal. So when working out menus you have a target to aim for. You can then adjust the budget easily if the number of meals changes or food price inflation takes hold.1 -
PHK said:flyer said:elsien said:Honestly, I’d be chucking this one back at the owner. If they want the manager to do a half decent job then they need to provide the tools for you to do so.(Ex/care home manager here.)Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.0
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flyer said:PHK said:flyer said:elsien said:Honestly, I’d be chucking this one back at the owner. If they want the manager to do a half decent job then they need to provide the tools for you to do so.(Ex/care home manager here.)No reliance should be placed on the above! Absolutely none, do you hear?0
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flyer said:PHK said:flyer said:elsien said:Honestly, I’d be chucking this one back at the owner. If they want the manager to do a half decent job then they need to provide the tools for you to do so.(Ex/care home manager here.)
Normally you set a cost per meal or serving. Doing it that way, it doesn't matter that some food will be bought in one month but eaten in another or that some packages are large enough to last multi months.
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@PHK do you mean that, having decided on the menu, you calculate the cost of all the ingredients? So, for example, the cake has 450 grams of sugar, which is 30% of a bag … You’d need to automate that calculation or there will be no time left for cooking. Besides that, the sort of person who likes cooking may not want to spend ages on the task, and will quickly find another job!No reliance should be placed on the above! Absolutely none, do you hear?0
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Do you need to account for children asking for more?0
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