[Blacklabcollective] Financial Spreadsheet - Explanation

[Anju Singh]

Thank you very much Megan!! I expected discrepancy for sure. I think you're
right that things will be easier to track here.

On Wednesday, February 25, 2015, Lindsay Kasting <l.kasting86 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> we must have so much beer down there right now LOL.
>
> On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 7:36 PM, Megan Speers <speers.megan at gmail.com
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','speers.megan at gmail.com');>> wrote:
>
>>  hey all.
>>
>> so i just did a count and also punched in the numbers that were written
>> down in the cash box from the pinner show (had to estimate the booze costs
>> because the total wasn't written down, just numbers of beers/etc.)
>>
>> I've updated the spreadsheet accordingly, but there is a bit of an issue,
>> which is that the total on the spreadsheet and the total in the money box
>> are different. we are 81$ under where the spreadsheet says we should be at
>> (spreadsheet total = 1474$, actual total = 1393$). this could be because my
>> cost estimate for what brendan spent on alcohol was low, but it's a pretty
>> big discrepancy... also, the discrepancy MIGHT even be bigger than that,
>> because after the systematik show, the money was counted (on the 18th,
>> written down in the banking notebook) and it was at 1156$ then, which is
>> 56$ more than it shows on the spreadsheet, plus the plastic cup of money
>> from the sickener show had $87 more than the $300 listed on the spreadsheet
>> in it.... so in actuality the discrepancy could be up to just over $200....
>> we may never know....
>>
>> in short: we really, really need to be more on top of being financially
>> organized... it isn't any one person's issue, it's as a whole, things are
>> just not getting recorded. this spreadsheet will undoubtedly be hugely
>> helpful in remedying that, but we ABSOLUTELY need to make sure any time we
>> buy things for the space we get receipts, and that everything gets written
>> down (in one place, not on scraps of paper that get lost), and that the
>> counts are sent out after every show, or at the very least put into the
>> book and/or onto the spreadsheet.
>>
>> i dont wana stress anyone out or anything but it's important! esp if we
>> wana be semi-legit eventually... just sending this as full disclosure so
>> everyone knows what's going on.
>>
>> lots of love pals.
>> -megan
>>
>> On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 4:55 PM, Anju Singh <aanjusingh at gmail.com
>> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','aanjusingh at gmail.com');>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I made this spreadsheet today. Let me know your thoughts.
>>>
>>> Ideally, everyone would put in the info. The calculations happen on
>>> their own, just put in what you spent and earned. I'm sorry I used the word
>>> profit, I didn't have a better word for it.
>>>
>>> I have already input the events coming up. They have goals as we
>>> discussed. Typically weeknight shows expect lower funds and weekends we
>>> expect more.
>>>
>>> Ideally, we start the month by putting in how much money we have on the
>>> first day of the month.
>>>
>>> We just need an update of where we are right now and how much money we
>>> have so hopefully brendan/lindsay or megan can give us an idea of our
>>> current total.
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>>
>>>
>>> https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1s7zzkQg1B4Y-qHOZYub8NgmWxWnnING3R5bQ0Qf9D0o/edit?usp=sharing
>>>
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>>> Anju Singh
>>>
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