Well if we're looking after a

pot of money and no attention

has been paid to the detail
then maybe some's gone here
some's gone there some's
gone there and then all of a
sudden oh there's no money
left a lack that means not
enough attention to detail in
the planning um so that can
refer to more things other than
the budget the project was it
planned in enough detail now
if things fall behind the
project is moving too slowly
then we would say that it is
behind SCH schle behind
schedule so we're on Monday
 but the work we're still doing
Friday's work we're behind
schedule and if you become
behind schedule then you're
going to need to play or have
to play catchup so if we got a
race and my friend is ahead of
me then I have to try and
catch him up if we're play
playing catch up at work then
we're meant to have done this
so very quickly we have to
reach this level we have to
catch up if you are ill then
when you come back from
being ill you need to catch up
on all your emails and all the
work you need to do now I
 have created a lesson on um
sort of Sailing Boat idioms
Etc so this one is in there but
if you miss the boat then
you're too late maybe you're
applying for a job and the
deadline is 9:00 and if you
don't finish your application
by 9:00 you've missed the
boat um or more formally to
miss the deadline um often
idioms can be used in a more
sort of Social and informal
way where the accurate um
vocabulary to the point is
often what's used in business
English um that's a
generalization um other
 problems if you run out of
money doesn't mean you're
running away no it just means
it means the the money has
run away you have run out
there's no money left maybe
that was caused by an
unrealistic budget could you
practice saying that with me
unrealistic budget and once
again unrealistic budget
budget um so reality is you
know the real world if
something is realistic then it's
in line with how the world is I
think realistically it's looking
like it might snow tomorrow
if I have unrealistic
 expectations of the weather I
might think it's going to be
sunny an unrealistic budget is
a plan for the pro for the
money in the project that is
not realistic budget
constraints constraints is like
a tie that holds you so it's like
a limitation budget limitations
so we can only spend this
amount on um burritos key
consideration um if you go
over budget then you spend
too much maybe on the
burrito you go for the extra
large instead of the large yep
you're out of control you can't
help it you're like I want the
extra large but the budget says
you only allowed the large we
got to pay attention to the
detail haven't we we don't
want to be running out of
money yep we need to have
realistic budgets if I can't can't
help getting an extra large
burrito then I need to be more
realistic with my budget I
make it sound like i've got
some real food problem um
okay let's look at effective
planning effective planning
when we plan effectively we
stay within budget so our plan
is to spend this amount and
maybe we spend less than that
 doesn't happen to me very
often uh but I like the idea um
to stay on track track yeah
like the train track so if a
project is on track then we're
going to be meeting the
deadline the deadlines kind of
at the next stop Choo Cho
Choo Cho choo choo we're on
track we're going to get there
if your budget is on track then
you're not spending too much
yep you're staying on the
straight and the narrow
staying on the path yeah an
accurate forecast yeah
forecast what is coming our
way what is coming forward
 what what's coming from
what's you know the weather
forecast what's what weather
are we about to have an
accurate forecast an accurate
prediction um an accurate
forecast of maybe the money
that is coming into the
business we're going to have
uh this sale this commission if
you get that accurate it will be
easier to plan the budget
upfront planning meaning
planning in advance um plans
are meant to be about what's
meant to happen um it's very
strange situation to have to do
plans for things you have
 already done you don't want
to do that you want to plan up
front before to make the
launch date launch rocket if
you make the launch date then
the project is running to time
or even better ahead of
schedule sometimes shorten
to fail to prepare prepare to
fail well sounds all rather
negative let's avoid that shall
we by prioriti izing tasks say
it after me prioritizing I know
it says prioritize say
prioritizing good in the
continuous so you have a to-
do list yep people normally
have long to-do lists
 prioritizing the tasks the
things you need to do is going
right well that is more
important than that I often
have two columns on a piece
of paper saying sort of urgent
and non- urgent um or before
I came here to Toronto it was
before Canada urgent non-
urgent um different people do
it in different ways um to
keep a tab on spending now if
you go into a pub in the UK
and say uh can I start up a tab
please it means um that they
just write down everything
you spend and then at the end
uh you pay the bill so if you
 keep a tab on spending what
you're doing is you're is
you're writing it down you're
taking note as it happens
allocate sufficient Again
difficult to pronounce
sufficient resources adjective
meaning enough and the verb
here allocate means that's
going for this that's for this
that's for this this is how
much we're spending on rent
this is how much we are
spending on food this is how
much we're spending on
transport um so putting you
know deciding to give enough
for each of um the things here
resources allocating sufficient
resources well money as a
resource time as a resource
um manpower to make a
contingency plan I've written
here that contingency means a
backup plan Plan B so this is
plan a but if all goes wrong if
it snows tomorrow and we
can't do anything like that our
contingency plan good formal
English that a contingency
plan uh at my cousin's
wedding the um father of the
uh groom that's the man
getting married had a
contingency plan in case there
was a huge flood um which
 seemed rather unlikely but
you got to think of all
eventual shall I write that
down for you eventualities
that means anything that
happens event in the plural
eventualities we're going to
check progress at every stage
so you can imagine this this
man was very de detail
orientated as he prepared for
his son's wedding and he was
making sure that progress was
being made at every stage has
this been done has this been
done can we have an update
on this please yep very very
detail orientated can be a bit
 of a headache um now just
got a few um ways in which
time stay and keep can be
used to um talk about budgets
Etc and plans time you're not
going to run out of time so
we've had run out of money
where there's no more money
it's the same idea the time
goes oh no I'm leav in Canada
tomorrow and I've run out of
time and I haven't done this
and I haven't done that stay I
could um but it wouldn't be
very popular um stay you
managing to stay on track you
managing are you if you man
so a manager handles things
 yeah they they organize
control things if you are
managing are you if you are
managing your your kind of
surviving your your being
able to do it are you being
able to stay on track are you
you doing okay on track are
you on progress still going
okay you going to meet the
deadline are you staying
within the budget you're not
going over budget staying
within the budget.

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