Re: [AGA-sc] Some financial info

["S. Hieber" <shieber@yahoo.com>]

Easy now, I was just trying to show how the account was
doing. All the money listed as rev is money actually
deposited into the account. That part's 100% on the mark
but it's messy after that. Some Paypal stuff was easy to
sort out when I did deposits, but I don't have enough time
to keep sorting the paypal for each transfer -- I thought I
would but I haven't. Given enough time, I could sort all
the revs from Paypal and from the checks and have a more
accurate listing. Don't take an rev item on the listing as
the total for that item.

Book revs means items from the book store that I could,
sometimes identify by source of check (DW) or a note on the
check like "books" or "bookstore" or "books and membership"
but that's not a reliable sorting. It also includes
deposits from convention book sales if I was able to pull
them out of the respective paypal transfers.

I had some large paypal transfers that were contest revs so
I categorized those revs. 

I won't be able to sort out the transfers each time. Which
is one reason I'd prefer a single system of revenue. 

Another approach is to breakdown all the Paypal stuff
separately, since that's the preponderance of income. As I
said, I haven't done that yet for June through Dec 2004.

There have been over 11 categories of membership items
purchased, some of the cats have had there names slightly
changed. I don't have any control over that but it makes
the counting and summarizing more of a pain to do. And
there are categories for TAG, for memberships, and some
memberships include TAGS and iirc, there have been more
than one of those categories. I'm not complaining about how
things are set up in paypal, I'm just pointing out that
it's messy to track by category.

I suppose we could just tally up memberships as one figure
(and treat combos just as membership revs). I haven't heard
anyone ask, how are the combos doing or how are memberships
doing year-over-year, so perhaps I'm just not lumping
things enough. With big enough lumps, all the accounting is
very easy. This much came in and this much went out, end of
story. Not a very useful story but the rev listing formthe
account aren't terribly useful now either.

sh 


--- Erik Olson <erik@thekrib.com> wrote:

> On Sat, 19 Feb 2005, S. Hieber wrote:
> 
> > what is missing is an analysis of the Paypal revenue
> *by*
> > category -- all the paypal revs show up below as
> "Paypal".
> ...
> 
> >     INCOME
> 
> >     Uncategorized                       765
> >     Book Revs                         2,307.00
> >     Contest Revs                      1,005.68
> >     DVD & VHS Sales                      25
> >     Membership 1yr                    1,373.00
> >     Membership 2 yr                     466
> >     Membership 3 yr                     324
> >     Membersip Combo                     108
> >     PayPal                           13,372.30
> ...
> >     EXPENSES
> >     DVD & VHS Production              1,050.00
> 
> OK, so some of this clearly makes sense, like clearly
> Media Sales is 99% 
> from PayPal.  But Contest Revs were also 99+% from
> PayPal.  So how come 
> they show up as their own category like that?
> 
> Did we really get $2300 for books paid in checks?  That
> seems 
> like an awful lot.
> 
> Did we really get over $1400 in memberships by check?  I
> could beleive 
> this more than I could beleive the thing about the books.

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