Re: [AGA SC] 2004 budget

["David Lass" <davidlass@villasunscape.com>]

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From: "S. Hieber" <shieber@yahoo.com>
To: <aga-sc@thekrib.com>
Sent: Saturday, January 10, 2004 11:39 AM
Subject: Re: [AGA SC] 2004 budget


> Some paid for multiyear and the least paid is $20, right?
> so the method needs tuning.

I'm not so sure, since multiple years are less than $20. But overseas is
more, and the extra costs for the overseas shows up in the TAG costs, while
the revenue is enhanced in the membership dollars.

>
> Membership revenues in a period don't have a lot to do with
> the size of membership but with the gross increase in
> membership (the gross decrease notwithstanding). Is there
> no record of the purchases in the paypal stuff or Cheryl's
> records either?

In response to some later emails, if Erik wants to go through the PayPal
data for 2003 to figure out how much was membership that would be fine with
me. I did not start keeping records of it until November after the
convention.I don't think this is important enough to ask Erik to worry about
it, given the other things that must be on his mind now.  If we want, we can
just set the membership revenue at lats year's. This is all going to be in a
spreadsheet so anyone who wants to can play "what it" -- what did we ever do
before Excel/Multiplan/VisiCalc?
>
> Backing into the raw data stuff is tough. It would be much
> better to record the raw data as it's created. Then
> reporting is just summing an analyzing  -- and then
> guesswork and ersatz numbers are limited to planning, to
> the budget.

Starting end of last year I have been keeping records of all PayPal
transactions by type -- membership, books & back issues, contest, convention
CD's, etc.

>
> If we could have raw data about the future, that would be
> nice too, but I hear from all but the best physicists that
> it's not possible.

Not true -- this information can be obtained -- it is just VERY EXPENSIVE.
See y'all.
David

>
> sh

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