On Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 10:01:39AM +1000, Terry Collins wrote:
> Anand Kumria wrote:
>
> > > Having said that, if you take money, organise meetings, etc, etc... you
> > > really DO have an obligation to keep the books. Surely some where in this
> > > conglomeration of computing talent, someone knows how to keep a spread
> > > sheet. Can't be that hard. Nothing clever. Just a spread sheet.
> >
> > Actually the answer is no.
> >
> > Surprising isn't it?
> >
> > For the last two years we have no one with this mystical 'spread sheet talent'
> > sally forth and say "Yes, I'll be the Slug treasurer".
>
> Okay, basic accounting for small organisations, like Slug.
I didn't actually ask for an accounting lesson. My lament was people,
such as yourself, complaining about 'problems' when few people seem
to care about doing the job.
So far all the treasurers have been competent (i.e. they know what to add
and where) not all of them have been available.
>
[snip - monthly balance sheet]
While appreciated, I think you'll find it far moe appareciated as a
widely distributed HOWTO available from the LDP. I can see you are keen
to share your knowledge, do you have the time to submit something to
them?
They still accept ASCII by the way.
>
>
> * For Fests, get the organisers to prepare a one page summary of income,
> expenditure, two of them to sign it and attach all receipts they
> have.
>
Which reminds me; as a SLUG sub-lug I believe you need to let us know
if and how many memberships you sold throughout the year. Do you have
that info. handy?
Feel free to send that publically, if you like, but please at least CC:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Your spreadsheet is really just two pages (income & expenditure) with
> columns as above and just gives a year to date. So long as you keep it
> upto date, it is very easy.
Ah yes, the hard bit left to the very end.
Anand
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