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From: Rob Thompson <>
Subject: Re: [SoG] The Society Bookshop and comparison with Amazon
Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2003 12:25:15 +0000 (GMT)
In-Reply-To: <20030228113341.59C9F36814@zorg.st.net.au>


If your bottom line includes a quota for use of time
of other members of staff, which i presume it must,
then you might make a loss whilst still contributing
to their costs. It really depends on the amount of
loss - obviously i have not seen figures so it is hard
to be sure

I am not saying its takings contribute, rather off set
some of the staff & space & admin costs by
contributing some

it is difficult to explain on a list, but one thing is
sure - unless the bookshop is selling at a loss (i am
presuming price is higher than direct cost) then it
should be off setting other costs

The only ways it wouldn't is:
A) If items sold are sold at less than cost
B) If over purchasing & write off are too high
C) If direct staff costs (IE Staff employed ONLY in
the bookshop) are greater than the profit on the books

and all of these are fixable by various methods other
than closure

Rob

--- Tom Perrett <> wrote: > On Fri, 28
Feb 2003 10:55:56 -0000, Caroline Gurney
> wrote:
>
> >Rob Thompson wrote:
> >
> >> Also takings from the bookshop, whether loss
> making or
> >> not would have conributed towards the staff costs
> of
> >> other parts of the building (all admin
> >> staff/director/etc) which will now have to born
> in
> >> full by the rest of the Society
> >
> >Sorry, Rob, I don't follow this bit. If it is
> loss-making (costing more to
> >run than it brings in) how can its takings
> contribute anything to the wider
> >enterprise?
>
> Secondly these so called "takings" first of all have
> to go
> to the "cost of sales", ie, the cost of purchasing
> the
> publications from the suppliers.
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> Tom <> Tom Perrett
>

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