TAROT CERTIFICATION BOARD

FINANCIALS

 

 

1999 INCOME

 

Certification fees                                                         $ 420.00

ATA Funds transfer                                                       459.04

 

Total income                                                              $ 879.04

 

2000 INCOME 1st Quarter

 

Certification fees                                                      $ 1,320.00

Other income (Note 1)                                                    14.85

 

Subtotal for 1st Quarter                                            $ 1,334.85

 

2000 INCOME 2nd Quarter

 

Certification fees                                                         $ 270.75

Other income                                                                   16.00

 

Total for 2nd Quarter                                                   $ 286.75

 

2000 INCOME 3rd Quarter

 

Certification fees                                                         $ 395.00

 

Total for 3rd Quarter                                                   $ 395.00

 

2000 INCOME 4th Quarter

 

Certification fees                                                      $ 1,220.00

Pay Pal transfer of Certification fees                               348.37

Other income                                                                   21.03

 

Total for 4th Quarter                                                $ 1,589.37

 

2000 INCOME TOTAL                                       $ 3,605.97

 

 

2001 INCOME 1st QUARTER

 

Certification fees                                                      $ 1,420.00

Other income                                                                     5.50

 

Total for 1st Quarter                                                 $ 1,425.50

 

2001 INCOME 2nd QUARTER

 

Certification fees                                                      $ 1,105.00

Other income                                                                     8.00

 

Total for 2nd Quarter                                                $ 1,113.00

 

2001 INCOME 3rd QUARTER

 

Certification fees                                                      $ 1,956.00

Other income                                                                   80.07

 

Total for 3rd Quarter                                                 $2,036.07

 

2001 INCOME 4th QUARTER

 

Certification fees                                                         $ 795.00

NBCB payment for services (Note 2)                            505.00

John reimbursement (Note 2)                                         268.62

Other income                                                                   48.86

 

Total for 4th Quarter                                                $ 1,617.48

 

2001 INCOME TOTAL                                       $ 6,192.05

 

2002 INCOME 1st QUARTER

 

Certification fees                                                         $ 690.00

Refund for overpayment from ATA                             1,000.00

Other income                                                                   30.20

 

Total for 1st Quarter                                                 $ 1,720.20

 

 

1999 EXPENSES

 

Office expense                                                            $ 161.81

Supplies                                                                          86.77

Contract labor (Note 3)                                                 245.41

 

TOTAL 1999 EXPENSES                                        $ 493.99

 

2000 EXPENSES 1st QUARTER

 

Office                                                                           $ 18.37

Supplies                                                                          60.50

Contract                                                                        375.09

 

SUBTOTAL 1st Quarter                                             $ 453.96

 

2000 EXPENSES 2nd QUARTER

 

Office                                                                            205.50

Supplies                                                                          41.10

Contract                                                                        879.62

 

SUBTOTAL 2nd Quarter                                         $ 1,126.22

 

2000 EXPENSES 3rd QUARTER

 

Office                                                                         $ 107.55

Supplies                                                                        316.45

Contract (Note 4)                                                          328.50

 

SUBTOTAL 3rd Quarter                                            $ 752.50

 

2000 EXPENSES 4th QUARTER

 

Office                                                                             $ 1.73

Supplies                                                                          30.63

Postage for mass mailing                                                603.00

Contract                                                                        519.46

 

SUBTOTAL 4th Quarter                                         $ 1,154.82

 

TOTAL 2000 EXPENSES                                     $ 3,487.50

 

2001 EXPENSES 1st QUARTER

 

Postage                                                                      $ 376.00

UPS                                                                              181.05

Contract                                                                        575.00

 

SUBTOTAL 1st Quarter                                          $ 1,130.25

 

2001 EXPENSES 2nd QUARTER

 

Office                                                                         $ 547.75

Supplies (Note 5)                                                       1,429.20

 

SUBTOTAL 2nd Quarter                                         $ 2,200.95

 

2001 EXPENSES 3rd QUARTER

 

Office                                                                         $ 216.43

Supplies                                                                        216.90

Postage                                                                         739.00

 

SUBTOTAL 3rd Quarter                                         $ 1,142.33

 

2001 EXPENSES 4th QUARTER

 

Office                                                                         $ 345.00

Supplies                                                                        608.56

Postage                                                                         689.00

 

SUBTOTAL 4th Quarter                                         $ 1,646.56

 

TOTAL 2001 EXPENSES                                    $ 6,121.89

 

2002 EXPENSES 1st QUARTER

 

Office (Note6)                                                         $ 1,004.17

Supplies                                                                        235.10

Postage                                                                         330.00

 

SUBTOTAL 1st Quarter                                          $ 1,569.27

 

NOTES:

 

Note 1

Other income is commission the TCB earned from Buyers United on telephone services. 

 

Note 2

This “refund” from NBCB and “reimbursement” actually were loans from John Gilbert.  John converted those loans into a donation when he resigned as Executive Director of the TCB.  John also donated his accrued contracted services salary in the amount of $ 1,928.00 to the defunct Tarot Certification Board.  He stated he did that in order to clear the books of any remaining liabilities prior to the transfer of assets to TCBA.

 

Note 3

Contract Services for 1999 through 2nd quarter 2000 were to Wald Amberstone as Executive Director.

 

Note 4

Contract services for the remainder of 2000 and 2002 were to Ruth Ann Brauser for web design and maintenance.  Also in 2001 TCB paid Darlene Nelson $400.00 as Contract services to rebuild their database when it crashed.

 

Note 5

Most of this expense was for purchasing a list of tarot readers and printing the brochures for the mass mailing.

 

Note 6

This represents a settlement with the telephone company for accrued expenses.

 

ADDITIONAL COMMENTS:

 

The $1,000.00 from the ATA during the first quarter of 2002 represents a refund of an overpayment.  This came about because the Tarot Certification Board and American Tarot Association Boards agrees TCB would reimburse ATA $5,000.00 for startup expenses.  Of this amount $3,000.00 was for reimbursement of accreditation fees which the TCB Board later voted not to pay.  At that time, the TCB had already paid the ATA $3,000.00 and requested a $1,000.00 refund.  The ATA complied with this request.  The total amount paid to the ATA for startup expenses less the refund was $2,000.00 in accordance with the former TCB Board’s wishes and this was agreeable to the ATA Board.

 

In discussing these financial affairs with several people including Dianne Fullerton’s daughter Denise, Grandmasters Rita Baker and Allan Curthoys, all of whom were closely associated with the ATA and TCB from the beginning, the TCBA Board is convinced the $3,000.00 paid by the ATA for accreditation fees was paid by Allan Curthoys, Dianne Fullerton and John Gilbert on behalf of the ATA for the benefit of the TCB.  We were able to verify this through conversations with Bill Bennett the founder and former president of the accreditation board.  Additionally, the Board has learned from Monica Salyer, the former ATA Treasurer who audited the ATA Books after John Gilbert resigned, that the $1,000.00 reimbursement from the ATA to the TCB came from an “anonymous donor.”   Monica also stated that John Gilbert personally funded the ATA conferences to the tune of about $2000.00 per conference but that otherwise the ATA financial records were in good order when he resigned as their Executive Director and Treasurer.

 

The TCBA Board regrets it has taken so long to conclude an audit of the former TCB books and apologizes for this delay.