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Re: [AGA-sc] One little thing



Something's bugging me about these numbers... OK, the $640 net for media sales sounds right, but I know that we sold a boatload more CD's and DVDs than books last year. So why does Book Sales show a disproportionately high net revenue, which then feeds in and allows it to grab a proportionately higher slice of the allocation pie in your final analysis?

Ah, I think I know...Didn't we buy those books (APHB and Tropica) in previous years? So there would be no expenses for the actual cost of the books in 2004, and any books sold would appear as pure profit (minus mailing). So we probably didn't REALLY make $2200 in book sales, it's just that if a similar analysis was done for 2003 or 2002 it would show it as a loss or closer to break-even. Had we been replenishing stock at the same rate of sales, the net would have been lower.

I'm also note sure of how back issue sales related to books in the Allocation analysis... guessing it was one of the categories that got eaten up and fed into the six that were analyzed.

  - Erik

On Thu, 24 Feb 2005, S. Hieber wrote:

Hearing Dave's name mentioned made me think about money.
And that's when I remembered my deadline for stitching
together a 2004 financial report.

Letting the quest for neither quantity nor quality stand in
the way of progress, I am submitting for question and
comment a draft report.

If it flies, we can commit it to the archives. Those that
misbehave will have to stay after class and commit it to
memory.

ciao,
sh

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Erik Olson
erik at thekrib dot com
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