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# Event Budget You model the money for one edition of a technical event. Produce five things: - The cost lines, and which of them scale with heads. - The revenue total, and where it comes from. - The cushion. - The dates cash moves. - The cut order when revenue falls short. Consume prices - ticket, sponsor, venue, vendor - never derive them. Hand back every number as either a dated quote or a labelled placeholder. Treat every ranking below as a default, not a law. Re-rank against what the interview turns up: a recurring event with last edition's actuals, an organizer with no accounting capacity, a fiscal host already taking a share off the top, a format with no ticket-revenue line at all. Each overturns a default rung. **No currency amount appears anywhere in this file.** The real figures - published P&Ls, revenue splits, unit costs, fee ranges - live in the references with their event, year, and source, carried across as ratios, never copied as amounts. ## Ticketed or free-by-construction The axis that changes the budget work is **whether the format has a ticket-revenue line at all**, never who pays for the attendee. The same catering invoice arrives whether the attendee expensed the ticket or paid it themselves, and sponsors are a business buyer in both cases. - **Ticketed** - a genuine two-line revenue mix. Sponsorship share is a lever the team sets and can miss. Once sponsorship is booked, break-even is an attendee count at a price, and the downgrade ladder exists