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In article <4462@cluster.cs.su.oz.au>, yar@cs.su.oz (Ray Loyzaga) writes:
> 
> I understand this, exhibition hall 5 is 5000 square metres, of which
> 1902 square metres was reportedly sold at a rate of $300,
> this was from the memory of the current treasurer. Why
> aren't these numbers more public?

Assuming that 'more public' means 'more readily available to the
membership of AUUG', the answer is that for the last few years, they
have been fully available to the membership.

The final breakdowns of expenditure and income as provide by ACMS for
AUUG89 and AUUG90 were printed in AUUGN.  These breakdowns show actual
and budget figures, so there is proof that the AUUG Committee in
conjunction with ACMS do actually set a budget for the whole event.

Unfortunately, these figures are not
available for some time afterwards, mainly because of tardiness by
just a few exhibitors and delegates in paying their bills.  There was
also a bit of a delay by the then Treasurer (yours truly :-) in
tallying in some expenses paid directly by AUUG rather than ACMS.

I'm sure that when the figures are fully available, they will be
published in AUUGN.  Frank or Jagoda wish to comment here?

> I don't want to see gross numbers like $173k, I want to see the
> break down of costs in terms of:
> cost of venue: $X
> cost of dinner: $Y
> cost of refreshments: $Z
> cost of proceedings .....
> then I will expect that the sum of the XYZ = $173k.

Yes, this sort of information is shown in the reconciliations.
You will even see how much the various vendors throw in so we can all
have great dinners and cocktail parties without having to pay
ourselves!

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