Financial Trends 2009

This is for showing financial trends in 2008 and 2009. I'll put graphs and explanations here.

Overview

These income and expense pie charts help to understand where the money comes from and goes in general. The data is based on monthly averages for the 2008-2009 years (so far).

The above chart shows Free Geek's Income, month by month, over the period of 2008 and 2009 (so far). This chart excludes one time income since its purpose is to show the overall trends. You can see that the largest income stream is Sales with Donations and Recycling coming in about tied for second place.

The above chart shows Free Geek's Income, month by month, over the period of 2008 and 2009 (so far). This chart excludes one time expenses since its purpose is to show the overall trends. You can see that Staffing expenses are the largest expense by far. Occupancy expenses are next, about a quarter of staffing.

This shows the results of subtracting expenses from income, that is the net income (or loss). This chart excludes one time income and expenses since its purpose is to show the overall trends.

Same chart, but this one includes one time income and expenses. You may note that net income is positive in the same months, regardless of the one time income and expenses.

Major Expense Streams

Staffing

This is our biggest expense. This covers payroll and all benefits and associated costs.

Occupancy

This is our second biggest expense. This covers rent and utilities and associated costs.

Major Income Streams

Front Desk

Here are the income streams related to the Front Desk. You can see that mandatory Fees dropped dramatically at the beginning of 2009 (due to the e-waste legislation).

Recycling

This shows the basic recycling income stream, plus the reimbursements from NCER (which started at the beginning of 2009 along with the e-waste legislation. Also included is a related expense. Note that recycling expenses (the red line) were much larger in 2008 (before the legislation) compared to 2009 (after).

Sales

Sales is the biggest income stream for Free Geek. You can see the effect of the December 2008 weather which closed Free Geek for much of the month. Also, short months such as November and February show slight dips. The overall trend is upward, though.

The following charts show trends based on various gizmo types and categories. Please note that the sales numbers below are different that the sales numbers used above. This is due to a quirk in our database code. The database reports that produce the below reports show sales based on total retail price -- that is the amount the item sold for as if coupons and discounts were real money. The above sales chart shows the actual amount of money charged for the items (a lower number). However, it appears that the trends are similar between the two ways of counting the money.

Breaking down sales income:

1. Regular systems (non-Mac) make up about 21% of the sales.
2. Laptops (non-Mac?) make up about 11% of the sales.
3. Hard Drives 8%
4. LCD Monitors 7%
5. Cards 5%
6. Stuff from printerland 4%
7. Net Devices 4%
8. Mac Systems 3%
9. Everything else that can be easily tracked is 3% or less, combined to 37%.

Systems

Systems

Laptops

Printerland

Macintoshes

Hard Drives

Cards

Network Devices

LCD Monitors

Miscellaneous