December 31 conjures up a whole bunch of thoughts. One of the more boring, but required duties is for us to prepare our calendar year profit and loss statements, and get a start on the taxes for the year. You go through the cost of raw materials, the cost/depreciation of equipment, the building expenses, utilities, labor expenses, benefit costs, and in the end hopefully find a profit was yielded. MTM goes through a similar process, and this process is important for not only tax purposes, but to also determine MTM member dividends.
While we go through many of the same things as your shop, there are some differences. The parts that are the same are that we go through the office rent expense, office utility cost, office supply expense, mailing costs, printing, staff wages and staff benefits. All of that matches up pretty well with your shop’s process. In MTM’s case, all of those items only account for 12% to 14% of the MTM total expenses. By far, and not surprising, MTM’s largest expense is paying claims.
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