Charities get accounting help
Howard Lake | 20 October 2011 | Newswire
20th October 2011
42 delegates attended the ‘Charitable accounting’ event run by the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants in Maidstone earlier this month.
Roger Ong FIFS MInstFis, senior manager with The Charity Bank Ltd with responsibility for third party relationships including trusts, foundations, funders, local authorities and government departments and chair of the Community Development Finance Association spoke to the delegates on the key areas accountants should know about when it comes to charities such as:
· restricted, unrestricted and designated funding and how this is treated
· potential clawback from government, local authority and EU funding schemes
· the importance of measuring outcomes and deliverables and their impact on the ability to draw down funding under contracts
· payments in arrears and the impact on working capital requirements
· the importance of the public benefit test
· legal structures – CIC, social enterprises, industrial and provident societies and trading arms of charities.
Stephanie Clackworthy, CIMA’s Regional Chairman for the South East of England, said, “‘Chartered Management Accountants operate in all areas of organisations with a commercial and forward looking focus. Management accountants operate in financial and non-financial roles throughout organisations and use their training and experience requirements within organisation itself, providing them with a unique insight into how they operate.’
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