As of late, I have been noticing that I really have immediately zoomed in
on some odd triviality and completely missed the more important bigger
message in several posts. So, over dinner, while I was grousing about the
bookstore income not looking right, Kathy asked me: "How much money did
the AGA lose this year?" "Lose? We're actually fifteen grand ahead!"
Which led to us thinking back over the year or two and all the programs
folks have been putting in place to make the AGA viable without counting
on convention revenue... so I'd like to give a big pat on the back to
everyone who helped make this happen. Having the website and paypal stuff
streamlined is nice, and the DVD's are cute (and will be a bigger blip in
2005 :), but the real heart of the changes are:
* Kathy for getting the ad program up and running (and Phil for shifting
it into third gear)
* Cheryl and Karen for figuring out how to reduce the printing costs
* Fixing the bookstore rates so that we actually made money on each sale
rather than losing money
* Cheryl, Scott, Karen, David et. al. for blanketing conventions with
flyers & bringing up the membership numbers
- Erik
On Thu, 24 Feb 2005, Erik Olson wrote:
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
--
Erik Olson
erik at thekrib dot com
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