soundtrack for this post: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8oTT9r9978 look i think the finances are all getting too complicated. I really really think we need ONE person to please just make a very simple page with all finacial details and it needs to be updated each week, including donations. when was the last time anyone got a donation?? where does this go?? who checks the piggy-banks?? are our donations which are needed for repairs being drunk away?? are we getting proper beer donations?? who would know?? i dont want to wait until it´s too late!! i think it is ABSOLUTELY VITAL that EVERYONE has a clear idea of our finances otherwise we are heading for big financial trouble... im not sure if other people are seeing the warning signs but over the 3 months i´ve been here, im starting to see them...
for example i cannot find anywhere where it says how much rent was paid any of the months. i want to know this. i want to know how much rent was paid in april for example. did we meet rent?? are we in surplus?? these are very basic questions. the only thing i could find was... "This means that we are still missing 1.100 Euro's for the last 2 months and 6,66 days" this for me is not a good enough explaination I am more than happy to be in charge of creating a finacial sheet, collectioning donations and posting it to the website every week. it NEEDS to be every week because we NEED to track donations and beer money. if people aren´t comfortable with me doing it then someone else do it but SOMEONE HAS TO DO IT!! ok look...it´s this simple ie. just an example april warm rent electricity/water rent needed rent received subtotal donations beer profit total running total 1312 287 1599 1800 201 80 35 316 316 May warm rent electricity/water rent needed rent received subtotal donations beer profit total running total 1312 400 1712 1600 -112 50 52 -10 306 Not just an example: https://spreadsheets.google.com/a/projectvolunteering.net/ccc?key=rSIHF25E5Ab0IIt1d8B0YgQ&hl=en (We need to talk about using this thing, as a lot of number don't have an explanation. I baed myself on Vicky's and Timmy's numbers. Don't worry too much, we have a revision history) ok...then just add a column for miscallaneous spending. i know we dont know the electricity/water until later but we can estimate. this is dead-easy very basic stuff but it hasnt been done. or at least it´s not visible enough. im sure the numbers are all floating around somewhere but we need a VISIBLE, UPDATED, COMPLETE finicial summary every week which includes donations everyone who comes to the meetings needs to be fully imformed of our financial situation. like i said im happy to get one going asap. please comment |
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