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<blockquote data-quote="Bama" data-source="post: 211333" data-attributes="member: 1184"><p>I take record keeping to an extreme. I was looking for some software for cattle but could not find anything to suit my needs. I did a program in excell that tracked all expense. I not only keep up with expense but also how many days the cow was there that year. For instance if I sell one in Januany she does not get charged with a whole years worth of expenses for that year. She is only charged for the number of days she was there. This makes for some pretty interesting formulars in excell. Take the total years expense in a category and then the total number of cow days that year and the total number of days a perticular cow was on the farm that year. You can figure out exactly how much each cow has in it. All I do is evertime I purchase something I enter it into a perticular sheet in excell. I also have a sheet for each animal. I track all feed, hay, meds, etc.. I have reports generatered that uses the formulars to breakdown how many days to charge to each animal. A .29 cent hairpen gets really spread out. But all the same even if its only a part of a cent it gets split by number of cow days in that year, all automaticly of couse, aint no way I have the time to figure this out by hand. Another interesting thing I do is is if I have something that carries over to the next year it is automaticly figured into that year. Course taxes are figured on a year to year basis. I got to playing around with excell and thought it would not only be neat to have it do all this for me but I would know exactly how much every animal cost me when it comes time to sell her. Linking cows to calves makes some interesting formulars as well. Over a course of a cows lifespan some interesting things happen as well. If a calf is the second calf from a cow the cows expenses are divided by the two calves. If its 10 then they got divided ten ways. It will really show you why you need a cow spitting out calves every year. By doing it this way you can only say how much you have in a calf on any given day. As the calfs momma has more calves her expenses get divided futher. I can look at it both ways. How much a calf has cost me or how much a cow has made me. Like I said I know its extreme but I can tell to the exact tenth of a cent how much I have in any given one. Maybe I should have been a bean counter, but I think a maintenceman fitted my calling better.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Bama, post: 211333, member: 1184"] I take record keeping to an extreme. I was looking for some software for cattle but could not find anything to suit my needs. I did a program in excell that tracked all expense. I not only keep up with expense but also how many days the cow was there that year. For instance if I sell one in Januany she does not get charged with a whole years worth of expenses for that year. She is only charged for the number of days she was there. This makes for some pretty interesting formulars in excell. Take the total years expense in a category and then the total number of cow days that year and the total number of days a perticular cow was on the farm that year. You can figure out exactly how much each cow has in it. All I do is evertime I purchase something I enter it into a perticular sheet in excell. I also have a sheet for each animal. I track all feed, hay, meds, etc.. I have reports generatered that uses the formulars to breakdown how many days to charge to each animal. A .29 cent hairpen gets really spread out. But all the same even if its only a part of a cent it gets split by number of cow days in that year, all automaticly of couse, aint no way I have the time to figure this out by hand. Another interesting thing I do is is if I have something that carries over to the next year it is automaticly figured into that year. Course taxes are figured on a year to year basis. I got to playing around with excell and thought it would not only be neat to have it do all this for me but I would know exactly how much every animal cost me when it comes time to sell her. Linking cows to calves makes some interesting formulars as well. Over a course of a cows lifespan some interesting things happen as well. If a calf is the second calf from a cow the cows expenses are divided by the two calves. If its 10 then they got divided ten ways. It will really show you why you need a cow spitting out calves every year. By doing it this way you can only say how much you have in a calf on any given day. As the calfs momma has more calves her expenses get divided futher. I can look at it both ways. How much a calf has cost me or how much a cow has made me. Like I said I know its extreme but I can tell to the exact tenth of a cent how much I have in any given one. Maybe I should have been a bean counter, but I think a maintenceman fitted my calling better. [/QUOTE]
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