Talk:Burn Rate

While this is an interesting financial article, what does it have to do, specifically, with conventions?

This isn't meant to be a financial primer site.

Yes and no. You are right, it isn't a primer site. And yet there will be people who have no clue as to how to make and monitor a good budget. If they have to learn everything the hard way, it makes for a very rocky journey. --Bill Taylor 16:53, 27 March 2007 (PDT)

But "Burn Rate" has almost no meaning in SF conventions as there isn't a chance to go back to shareholders or venture capitalists to get more money in. As a discussion on "Cash Flow" (which is the link I found that brings me here) then that's fine, but introducing jargon from another area that is a poor fit at best is likely to add confusion or cause people to skip past what is actually a potentially useful article, certainly that was my immediate response and while I may or may not be a typical user of this site, I believe that my response is valid. So yes, an article or group of articles on Budget is a great thing, but a discussion on "Burn Rate" as opposed to Cash Flow is esoteric. Of course most of my convention running experience (up to and including committee on several worlcons) has been in the UK and Europe and perhaps the US is more "corporate". But in which case I'd expect if it is more "professional" in the US then the people controlling the finances would have appropriate training and qualifications and as such, this would be teaching them to suck eggs. YMMV :-) --Magician 10:36, 28 March 2007 (BST)