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Cyberspace Communications finances for November 2000
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Feb 9 05:19 UTC 2001 |
Here is the treasurer's report on Cyberspace Communications, Inc. finances
through November 30th, 2000.
Beginning Balance $4,792.53
First, I need to correct a few errors that crept into the treasurer's reports
earlier in the year:
+.10 (July) The Canadian exchange rate
fluctuated some between when Greg
posted the July report and when he
made the deposit, so we actually got
a dime more than he reported.
-8.20 (August) This is the total of the
CardService discounts for the credit
card payments we received in August.
It didn't make it onto the report.
-54.34 (August) Greg reported the electric
cost on the August treasurer's report,
but mistakenly didn't add it into the
balance.
-60.00 (September) Greg received mail from
Charge Solutions, saying we had
received a payment from user grace,
for a membership. Unfortunately, the
payment never materialized in our bank
account. I've written to grace to see
if she got charged; if so, I'll call
and try to get us the money.
-.20 (September) Another exchange rate
correction.
-.80 (September) Addition error on debits.
+.03 (September) Charge Solutions has an
ugly hack in their system which reared
its head when we had all those
authorizations. Apparently, they need
to clear out blocks of transactions
periodically, and for some reason they
can't do it unless there is a real
charge among them. So when our buffer
filled up, they charged *our* credit
card $1.00. So we paid a dollar out
of our checking account and received
it again via Charge Solutions. But,
as with all credit card transactions,
we didn't receive *all* of it - $.03
was kept by CardService as a discount.
This happened twice, but Greg
accidentally counted it 3 times.
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Total of corrections: $-123.41
Corrected balance: $4,669.12
Credits $408.00 Member contributions
$64.00 Miscellaneous donations
$20.00 Grex Store proceeds
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$492.00
Debits $69.46 Pumpkin Rent for December
$54.34 Electricity for January
$308.79 Phone Bill
$886.44 New Tape Drive
$29.00 Charge Solutions fee for October
$51.05 CardService fee for October
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$1,399.08
Ending Balance $3,762.04
Our current balance breaks down as follows:
$3,601.27 General Fund
$139.86 Silly Hat Fund
$60.00 Spare Parts Fund
($39.09) TOP sponsorship fund
The Grex store activity so far this year looks like this:
Cash Stock
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Beginning Balances: ($46.60) $301.60
$40.00 <-- Items sold <-- ($21.40)
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Ending Balances: ($6.60) $280.20
We had two new members (jplatt and tomaso) and two returning members (sisiro
and gregory) in November.
Notes:
- This report shows the last of the credit card troubles, because we cancelled
our Charge Solutions account near the end of September. We still have to pay
CardService until February.
- Obviously the tape drive was the big expense in November.
- As you can see, the Grex Store is very close to being profitable. If we
sell ONE MORE ITEM, we will actually have MADE MONEY. Woohoo!
Thanks to everyone who contributed in November:
blh, coyote, glenda, gregory, jplatt, quail, rksjr, sagan, sisiro, steve,
swa, and tomaso.
Thanks everyone!
If you or your institution would like to become a member of Grex, it only
costs $6/month or $60/year. Send money to:
Cyberspace Communications
P. O. Box 4432
Ann Arbor, MI 48106-4432
If you pay by cash or money order, please include a photocopy of some form of
ID. I can't add you to the rolls without ID. (If you pay with a personal
check that has your name pre-printed on it, we consider that a good enough
ID.) Type !support or see http://www.cyberspace.org/member.html for more
info.
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