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Aperture ScienceInnovatorsWe Do What We Must Because We Can
Established 1943Upper Michigan, U.S.A.
Telephone ENrichment 9-0943
Form No.ASI-600
DepartmentAccounting
IssuedSpring 1959
ClassificationUnrestricted
Accounting

Investor Relations

Figures, forecasts and a full accounting of where the money went, prepared by a department that is confident nobody will read past the first table and has arranged the tables accordingly.

Aperture Science Innovators is wholly owned by its founder and has no outside shareholders, no board, and no obligation whatsoever to publish any of what follows. It publishes it anyway, because the President enjoys the tables.

$41.2MGross receiptsFiscal 1956
$38.9MExpenditureFiscal 1956
$2.3MRetainedSpent by March
$11.4MLunar procurementOne line item
0Outside shareholdersBy design
“It is my money. I bought a moon with it. Next question.”
— Cave Johnson, to the auditors, three times
All figures unaudited. The audit was scheduled for February and rescheduled to March and rescheduled to a date the auditors have declined to name.
theres a boat on the books. nobody at this company has ever seen a boat