Kate Sayer
Kate Sayer is a partner at Sayer Vincent and has been with the firm for over 20 years, after qualifying as a chartered accountant and experience with an international firm of accountants. She is the engagement partner for a wide range of charity audits, and has written several books on charity finance.
Kate is a member of the Charity Commission SORP Review Committee which develops the standards for charity accounting. She is also a visiting lecturer at the Cass Business School for the Diploma in Charity Finance.
Now in its seventeenth year, Charity Finance’s annual review of the charity audit market and related reporting issues is based on data from 1,097 charities with collective annual income of £20.3bn and...
Management thinking has provided us with new and different ways to handle organisational change and managing people. This article considers the impact this thinking has on the management of IT and looks...
Charity IT Conference 0
Events |
11 Nov 2009
The fourth annual Charity IT Conference 2009 returns to explore both some of the inspirational and exciting developments in technology and its use across a wide range of charitable organisations, as well...
Adaptive planning 0
Topics: Budgeting
Financial budgets won’t necessarily deliver desired outcomes. Kate Sayer looks beyond the budget.
For some time, charities have been looking at “Beyond Budgeting” to see whether different approaches...
It is the responsibility of the chief executive to ensure that trustees have sufficient information to make informed decisions. Kate sayer describes the essential components of a board paper requiring a...
Making the case 0
Topics: Risk management
Kate Sayer identifies some tools for assessing financial risk.
To make good decisions, you need to understand both the benefits and risks associated with a proposed course of action, either of which...
Kate Sayer offers advice on how to convince your board to stump up for investment in IT
This may seem like a strange time to be investing, but continuing your investment in certain areas will be crucial...
The Statement of Recommended Practice (SORP) Accounting by registered social landlords 2008 was approved by the Accounting Standard Board (ASB) on 23 November 2007, and is effective for all accounting periods...