I am the Entertainment Tycoon

Chapter 401 Monthly And Yearly Reports: Fuji Jump Co.

"It seems that you did a good job in recommending Haruto to manage the BlueCloud." Theo chuckled.

"I'm glad he is so invested in the job." Sam replied with a giggle.

The two of the talked about Haruto's report as they waited for Sayuri to enter the room again.

Shortly later, Sayuri entered the room and greeted the two of them.

"Good morning, boss! Can I present my reports now?" She said with a smile.

"Of course." Theo laughed.

Sam just giggled at her silly antics.

Sayuri positioned herself next to the screen before starting her presentation, "Firstly, I will start with the December Reports."

"The Profit Report is a little complicated because, at the beginning of December, we increased the capacity of the printing factory by five times. Previously, we had the capacity to print 2 million copies per month. But after the expansion, we reached the capacity of printing 10 million copies per month."

"The expansion cost 4.04 million dollars and it took one week to be completed. This means that in the first week of the month, we had a lower capacity of printing."

"But even then we registered a sharp increase in sales when we started providing more copies to the market. Our website registered record sales with the number of copies we sold there. You can see the numbers here on the screen." Sayuri said with a professional voice.

She was much more experienced than Haruto, so she did not have many problems presenting these reports to Theo and Sam.

"In total, we sold 7.8 million copies until yesterday. This number may increase in the next two days, but not by much."

"From this number, 6 million copies were from the [Naruto] Manga. Each volume released sold 2 million copies. This means that the three volumes had equal sales."

"While the [Hataraku Maou-sama] Manga sold 1.2 million copies in total. The first two volumes each sold 300k copies. And the third volume sold 500 thousand copies."

"The [SAO] Light Novel sold 100k copies.]

"And lastly, the release of the month, [Tree of Joy] Light Novel sold 500 thousand copies." Sayuri finished as she pointed at the chart on the screen.

Theo wasn't surprised by the sharp increase in sales as all these works were famous in his last life. What he cared about was the light novel he wrote. It managed to sell 500k copies!

Theo almost couldn't believe that they sold so many copies.

He was so happy when he saw that number. Happier than he saw the increase in sales in the other works. After all, this light novel he wrote by himself while the others he just copied from his last life.

The feeling was completely different.

"In the end, we achieved a Net Sale of 75 million dollars in December." Sayuri dropped the bomb.

Theo and Sam became dumbfounded when they heard the staggering number. It was only after thinking about it for a moment that they understood why.

They sold 7.2 million copies of mangas, each had a price of 10 dollars.

They also sold 600 thousand copies of light novels at an average price of 5 dollars each.

Adding the sales between the profit from the two things is possible to reach that staggering number.

"But half of this 75 million dollars is destined to pay off costs and taxes. 30% of it goes to the bookstores while 20% of it goes to payment of the printing costs. This leaves us with 37.5 million dollars."

"But that is not the final cut yet as with the expansion of the factory, our expenses increased proportionally with the increase of the printing capacity. If we increased by five times the printing capacity, we also increased by five times or expenses."

"That's because we had to hire more employees, pay for maintenance, pay for the increased energy bill with extra machines, and many other things."

"In November we destined 1.75 million to pay these expenses. But now, we have to separate 8.75 million for these bills."

"Therefore, the final cut is 28.75 million dollars to be divided among the shareholders." Sayuri said with a slight smile on her face.

At the end of the day, she possessed 10% of the shares of the company, which meant that she would receive 2.87 million dollars!

She was really grateful to Theo for his willingness to forsake 10% of the shares in memory of her father.

Theo also had a satisfied expression when he heard that. That was because he would receive 25.87 million dollars!

This amount of money may sound huge for just one month of sales. But this was the usual profit of a medium-sized publishing company.

If a medium-sized publishing company had steady sales and good mangas to sell, they would receive even more money than that.

But the difference between the other publishing companies and the Fuji Jump Co. was the number of shareholders.

A normal publishing company had more than ten shareholders, this meant that the monthly profit would be divided among multiple shareholders. So, the final amount that each one of them would receive was not much when compared with the initial number.

But the Fuji Jump Co. only had two shareholders.

Theo owned 90% and Sayuri owned 10% of the shares.

Which meant that Theo would pocket almost all the money from the monthly profits.

"That's the manga and light novel sales. In December we opened our online web store to sell merchandise from our works. We sell all kinds of products. Cups, mugs, shirts, sweatshirts, pajamas, action figures, and others. And I can say with assurance that we didn't sell more because we limited the sales. But even then we managed to have a Net Sale of 15 million dollars."

"Half of that 75% of this number will have to be destined to pay for the costs as it is much more complicated and costly to produce these merchandise than when compared to mangas and light novels."

"But even then, the person who owns the copyrights of the merchandise will receive 3.75 million dollars." Sayuri said as she looked at Theo.

Differently from the profit from the publishing house, where Sayuti would get 10% of it. The profit from the online merchandise store would go integrally to Theo.

He was the owner of the copyrights of these mangas and light novels, plus he was the owner of the company. So, he would receive all the profits.

Theo ran the number and realized that he would receive 29.62 million dollars in the end.

That was over 4 times what he received last month from the Fuji Jump Co.

He was glad that he made peace with huge amounts of money coming to him yesterday, or he would freak out if he saw this number before.

Theo and Sam had thoughtful faces as they heard Sayuri's shocking report.

Sayuri continued saying other details of the report as tax payments report, costs report, and other things that a business manager had to take care of.

When she finished everything it was finally time for the yearly report.