It's clearly a budget. It's got a lot of numbers in it.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- The speaker notes the obvious nature of a budget document containing numbers.
- In plain terms
- A budget is just a list of numbers.
- What can you take from it?
- Bureaucratic documents can be bluntly descriptive.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- What is a budget?
- How do we explain it?
Another view
It trivializes the complexity behind budget numbers.
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