On the Road - Presenters Handbook

DOLLARS AND SENSE

Do not be intimidated by the financial aspects of presenting: if you balance your personal checkbook and keep your home finances in order, you will not find the budgeting difficult.  If you plan to present a number of shows throughout the year, you should create an annual project budget that includes all the revenues and expenses for your program.  If you are presenting a single event, an event budget is all that you need.  The budget for presentations (one or many) will include sources of “revenue” (money in) and areas of “expense” (money out).  Sounds simple, doesn’t it?  It is.  The hardest part is predicting how many tickets you will sell for each event.