just the facts
Nov. 27th, 2008 03:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
adelaideseanToday, as part of the SA Writers' Centre's week-long "Maximising Opportunities" course for developing writers, I co-presented a seminar on "Taxation, Accounting & Effective Record Keeping"--which really sounds like fun, hey?
Uber-accountaint Simon Graetz handled all the important stuff, while I burbled on about the broader financial picture--the picture that emerges after nigh on two decades of doing this crazy job and a week or two poring over tax records to get some hard figures. Hence:
Not just pretty piccies but pie-graphs showing (L) the different categories into which I divide my expenses, (C) where my income comes from, broadly speaking, and (R) how much of every dollar I earn I get to take home. (The links will take you to individual breakdowns.) Terrifying.
Then there's this:
A roller-coaster made all the more vertiginous when you realise it's the path my income has taken from the first dollar I earned from writing up to my latest tax return. (Ulp. Is it too late to get off?)
In the seminar I projected actual spreadsheets from my "Money" file, to demonstrate (a) what an Excel nerd I am and (b) how important it is to take the job seriously. I thought I'd post these images here, since I'd gone to the trouble of making them and learned a thing or two myself along the way (like: I spend how much on travel???).
In honour of these and other silly numbers, here are some more titles from my dim, dark past: "Yuckipoo No. 1", "Meaningless Scribble No 517 and a bit", "Paraphernalia: 2 (La Limace)" ("la limace" = "the slug"), and "A Bit of Length No. 2: Soldier's Death"
Uber-accountaint Simon Graetz handled all the important stuff, while I burbled on about the broader financial picture--the picture that emerges after nigh on two decades of doing this crazy job and a week or two poring over tax records to get some hard figures. Hence:
Not just pretty piccies but pie-graphs showing (L) the different categories into which I divide my expenses, (C) where my income comes from, broadly speaking, and (R) how much of every dollar I earn I get to take home. (The links will take you to individual breakdowns.) Terrifying.
Then there's this:
A roller-coaster made all the more vertiginous when you realise it's the path my income has taken from the first dollar I earned from writing up to my latest tax return. (Ulp. Is it too late to get off?)
In the seminar I projected actual spreadsheets from my "Money" file, to demonstrate (a) what an Excel nerd I am and (b) how important it is to take the job seriously. I thought I'd post these images here, since I'd gone to the trouble of making them and learned a thing or two myself along the way (like: I spend how much on travel???).
In honour of these and other silly numbers, here are some more titles from my dim, dark past: "Yuckipoo No. 1", "Meaningless Scribble No 517 and a bit", "Paraphernalia: 2 (La Limace)" ("la limace" = "the slug"), and "A Bit of Length No. 2: Soldier's Death"
