Waiheke Island Choral Society, Inc.

Treasurer’s Report to the Annual General Meeting

6 March 2012

Performance
Position
Fixed Assets
Treasurer’s Comments


Sheet 1: Performance

Waiheke Island Choral Society Inc.

Financial Performance for the year ended 31 December 2011











2011 2010










$ $
Income




Subscriptions


945 920
Donations


151 0
Sales of 25-Year books


50
Bond refund from 2010


150
Interest


41 59
Concert Income:




- Messiah


1670
- Fiddler on the Roof


17745
- A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum



9559
- Christmas concert


624 715
Creative Communities Grant



1000






Total Income


21376 12253






Expenses




Advertising/Stationery/Copying


157 163
Auditor


324 281
Bank Fees


43 13
Association Fees


349 350
Depreciation


156 168
General


114 322
Donations to charities


0 200
Social


105 190
Travel


0 0
Write-off of 25-Year books


390
Petty Cash


0 0
Hall Hire


828 961
Concert Expenses:




- Messiah


1207
- Fiddler on the Roof


16201
- A Funny Thing Happened ...



7802
- Christmas concert


41 1310






Total Expenses


19915 11760






Net Surplus (-Deficit)


1461 493







Sheet 2: Position

Waiheke Island Choral Society Inc.

Financial Position as at 31 December 2011











2011 2010






Accumulated Funds


$ $






Balance as at 1 January


21397 20904
Net Surplus (-Deficit)


1461 493






Total Funds Invested


22858 21397












Invested as Follows:










Current Assets




ASB Bank General Account


14353 8367
ASB Bank Reserve Fund


5837 9796
Music Stocks


320 320
25-Year History Books


0 390










20510 18873






Less Liabilities




Creditors


20 0






Working Capital


20490 18873






Fixed Assets




as per Schedule


2368 2524






Net Assets


22858 21397







Sheet 3: Fixed Assets

Waiheke Island Choral Society Inc.

Schedule of Fixed Assets and Depreciation for the year ended 31 December 2011










Asset
Cost Accum Depn Book Value Additions/ Depreciation Depreciation Book Value



31 Dec 2010 31 Dec 2010 Disposals Rate Amount 31 Dec 2011









Piano
4531 2453 2078
7.50% 156 1922
Piano Cover
446 0 446
0 0 446











4977 2453 2524

156 2368

Treasurer’s Comments


The Choral Society made a small profit of $1461 during 2011, due entirely to the equally small profit of $1543 that we made from Fiddler on the Roof. For such a major effort, resulting in such a brilliant and successful show, the level of profit was a bit disappointing.


We can attribute this result to several factors:


  1. The cost of Artworks was over $3700 (compared with under $1500 for 2008 and 2009). The main difference here was the cost of rehearsals, for which Artworks did not charge us in earlier years.

  2. We gave only ten performances of Fiddler, compared with eleven for The King and I and Peter Pan. The extra income from that one additional performance was nearly all profit.

  3. We did not receive a Creative Communities grant in 2011. These are getting harder to come by in the present economic and political circumstances.

  4. Having Iain Tetley as the musical director, while advantageous in many excellent ways, ran our travel budget to over $1000, as he had to commute from Pukekohe.


One factor which was not significant to the result was the performance rights for Fiddler. Although they were the highest we have ever paid, they were not significantly higher than The King and I, and were actually less than the total fees paid for A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, because that show incurred some substantial late penalties.


Leaving out the show, we did not quite break even for the year. This is about normal; income from subscriptions and our smaller concerts usually just about covers costs each year, give or take a bit, and this was the case for 2011.


One growing expense that we shall have to watch is the cost of the auditor. This has risen from $180 in 2007 to $431 this year, which represents 30% of our profit. Suggestions are requested for how we might limit this cost. Our Constitution requires that our accounts be audited by a qualified accountant each year.


Mark James

Treasurer.