Audit Survey 2011 - when the going gets tough
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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.
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With the prospect of hard times ahead, charities are demanding more from their auditors, finds Diane Sim.
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 audit fees of £22.2m.
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 at a specific example of procuring new systems.
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 its role as an enabler of change – whether of internal working practices or in service delivery. With sessions aimed both at technicians and strategic managers your Charity IT Conference this year looks at the differing roles technology plays across the breadth of the organisation from frontline services to back-office processes with speakers from a wide range of smaller and larger charities.
Financial budgets won’t necessarily deliver desired outcomes. Kate Sayer looks beyond the budget.
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 major decision to be made by a board of trustees.
Kate Sayer identifies some tools for assessing financial risk.
Kate Sayer offers advice on how to convince your board to stump up for investment in IT.