[Finance] Financial statements for 2015 fiscal year

[Bill Newman]

Sorry this has taken so long to put together.
     I've attached a copy of the annual financial report as developed by 
the Finance Committee in the Fall of 2014 and used for the last two 
years.  I have left all three years in so we get a good idea of how 
things change from year to year.  It's good to know where we have 
progressed and where we have done better in the past.
     This is in ".doc" format so it can edited.  I think this is the 
report that should go into the annual report but it needs an 
introductory paragraph which I haven't done.   I don't think our 
budgeting efforts (and shortcomings) are really of general interest (or 
are they?).
     This report, the full variance report, and other reports are on the 
website in pdf form for people with an appetite for such things.
     I have also reorganized and added some reports for the 2014/15 
fiscal year on the website.

     Taken all together this is probably more reporting than we need to 
have (and more effort).  One aspect of the whole set of reports is the 
variation in the number and names of the individual line items.  There 
are too many lines in the reports that come out of the accounting 
system.  Grouping them down to a useful set of summary lines has been an 
opportunity for more creativity than discussion in the past.  We should 
spend more time on this.
     In a broader context the grouping and organizing of our financial 
data should also be reflected in the organization and grouping of our 
website pages.  But that is a topic for the Website Committee which we 
haven't even formed yet.
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