[Blacklabcollective] Financial Spreadsheet - Explanation

[Maggie Stowe]

Hi everyone,

Yeah, the spreadsheet looks like it will make finances a lot easier to keep
track of!

Thanks!

On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 9:11 PM, Anju Singh <aanjusingh at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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>
>> 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>
>>> 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
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Anju Singh
>>>>
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> Anju Singh
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