Re: [AGA-sc] Updated, refined AGA Sales figures from Convention

["Karen Randall" <krandall@rdrcpa.biz>]

Again, fantastic job on Cheryl and Ann's parts. (and yours too as head bean
counter<g>)

Karen

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "S. Hieber" <shieber@yahoo.com>
To: <aga-sc@thekrib.com>
Sent: Tuesday, November 23, 2004 6:20 PM
Subject: [AGA-sc] Updated, refined AGA Sales figures from Convention


> Well, kids, I know you just can't get enough instruction on
> what you should have done diff (Why on earth do people
> think they are supposed to agree with judges on subjective
> decisions?)
>
> Well, anyway, I have had a chance to slop together more
> data and a few guesses, or as finance people call them,
> expert assumptions (hah), and now offer better info on the
> AGA sales from 2 weekends ago.
>
> I've attached a speadsheet for those that like to see lines
> around their numbers. But a few highlights are noted below
> for those that prefer only to see between the lines.
>
> The spreadsheet has two pages: The "cash flow" page
> presents the tallies from Cheryl's excellent
> recordkeeping-under-fire with a few tweaks by me. It only
> takes into account the money that moved in or out at (or
> directly in connection) with the convention activity. The
> second sheet in the attached file, "Est. Net Rev", is an
> approximation of the net value of the items sold, taking
> into account what was paid for the sold items and what was
> received. There are some guesses in there and further
> refinements could be made, but I don't think they are off
> enough to seriously throw off the import of the numbers,
> which is that we cleared about a thousand dollars.
> Considering that some of the costs were paid in prior
> years, and that some of the items had little real value in
> inventory, we done did pretty good.  Good enough that we
> should have done this before (hah, more second guessing
> from the barcalounger).
>
> Anyway, having already spoiled the surporise, on a net
> revenue basis, we made about $1,000 over costs. Not bad for
> three days of volunteers' work where someone else was
> sucking $100 each out of our prime market.
>
> In terms of the money we moved this weekend, my revised
> count is that we brought in about $7,500 while paying out
> about $5,700 (is that numerical symmetry just coincidence
> or does it have a deeper meaning? Naw, just coincidence.)
>
> The preponderance of the money moving around was what we
> took in and paid right back out, handling Amano's book. If
> you put that special case aside, we moved about $3,000 and
> held onto nearly $1,800 of it. And we netted (or profited
> if AGA had any owners) about $1,000 on the $3,000. That's a
> darned nice rate of return.
>
> If I didn't know better, I'd swear you folks were in
> business for more than just fun. ;-)
>
> One thing puzzles me though. We brought 5.5 units of one of
> the convention DVDs but sold 6 units. Sounds like one
> heckuva sales job. :-\
>
> Congrats folks, especially Cheryl. Now back to the autopsy
> alredy in progress . . .
>
> sh


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