To truly finish up the camp season is to do a breakdown of the year. I helped the Director of Events to figure out what money we brought in for each of the camps, how much we spent, what we spent it on, and also to compare it all to last year.
I started by doing the numbers for last year. I went back in all of the financial documents and made a list of all the camp income and what camps they were for. The reason we did not have this on file already is because we did not have to do a breakdown comparison like this in the past. A lot of the reason is to see what the new measurable information cost us and if it generated any more revenue with camp attendee income.
The next step was to go through all of the camps for this year and calculate the totals. I then moved onto the expenses for both years. The expenses for the previous year were readily available but this year needed to be done.
Once all of the raw information was there I put it into a spreadsheet to compare the two and went over everything with the Director of Events.
I cannot post the results but it was great because even though we dropped two big camps from our lineup for this year we made up for it in revenue from this year. The downside was that we did have to spend a lot of start up money for the new measurable equipment and signage and also having a few more people on staff to help record results on camp days.
Another plus was that our previously existing camps made more revenue this year. Additionally we had to expend more of an insurance cost this year of no fault of our own, just a bump in the cost by the company we go through. Overall we ended up just shy of last year’s total but the big picture is that the measurable testing was a positive force and if we stay on the same track and even add in more camps next year as planned we will surpass our goals. The impact of buying all the equipment and having lost two camps was a hit to the 2014 season but considering those factors we did well and the Board of Directors was pleased.
I started by doing the numbers for last year. I went back in all of the financial documents and made a list of all the camp income and what camps they were for. The reason we did not have this on file already is because we did not have to do a breakdown comparison like this in the past. A lot of the reason is to see what the new measurable information cost us and if it generated any more revenue with camp attendee income.
The next step was to go through all of the camps for this year and calculate the totals. I then moved onto the expenses for both years. The expenses for the previous year were readily available but this year needed to be done.
Once all of the raw information was there I put it into a spreadsheet to compare the two and went over everything with the Director of Events.
I cannot post the results but it was great because even though we dropped two big camps from our lineup for this year we made up for it in revenue from this year. The downside was that we did have to spend a lot of start up money for the new measurable equipment and signage and also having a few more people on staff to help record results on camp days.
Another plus was that our previously existing camps made more revenue this year. Additionally we had to expend more of an insurance cost this year of no fault of our own, just a bump in the cost by the company we go through. Overall we ended up just shy of last year’s total but the big picture is that the measurable testing was a positive force and if we stay on the same track and even add in more camps next year as planned we will surpass our goals. The impact of buying all the equipment and having lost two camps was a hit to the 2014 season but considering those factors we did well and the Board of Directors was pleased.