I work in a position that requires me to pay various items like invoices and reimbursements, things of that nature. To pay these items you need a Cost Center (where the monies to pay are coming from) and a Purpose and Benefit.
The Purpose and Benefit (PB...not peanut butter!) is a term used to explain and justify spending according to this particular institution's policies. The more and more I've had to request PB's from recipients, the more I've grown fonder of the term. Not just for some of the outrageous replies but also for the complexity and weight 3 words can offer to one beyond a payment.
I'm curious how the phrase can be transcribed by others. Today presented an opportunity for me to put that phrase to the test. Now I have to say, the person I used it on know what it means from a working standpoint but I wanted to know what response I would get if I used it for a personal question.
Not surprised at all I got just what I thought. Like on the professional side, I usually get one but not the other and have to coach or fish for an answer.....sort of be a mind reader. This experiment was nothing short of the usual, I got the purpose, but not the benefit. I think its substantial and reasonable to know how one's intent can benefit you. And to hear it in the other person's thought really can put things into perspective for the requester, at least in my case anyway. So that will become my new practice. I shall ask, what's the Purpose and Benefit? Then, I shall decide or think on it.
The Purpose and Benefit (PB...not peanut butter!) is a term used to explain and justify spending according to this particular institution's policies. The more and more I've had to request PB's from recipients, the more I've grown fonder of the term. Not just for some of the outrageous replies but also for the complexity and weight 3 words can offer to one beyond a payment.
I'm curious how the phrase can be transcribed by others. Today presented an opportunity for me to put that phrase to the test. Now I have to say, the person I used it on know what it means from a working standpoint but I wanted to know what response I would get if I used it for a personal question.
Not surprised at all I got just what I thought. Like on the professional side, I usually get one but not the other and have to coach or fish for an answer.....sort of be a mind reader. This experiment was nothing short of the usual, I got the purpose, but not the benefit. I think its substantial and reasonable to know how one's intent can benefit you. And to hear it in the other person's thought really can put things into perspective for the requester, at least in my case anyway. So that will become my new practice. I shall ask, what's the Purpose and Benefit? Then, I shall decide or think on it.
