Financial Control: What Financial Policies do We Need?

An overall Financial Policy will contain policies that relate to a number of areas: donor or income policies, budgeting policies, policies for financial management, expenditure policies, travel policies, auditing policies, assets policies, petty cash policy, salary policy, staff loans.

Financial Control: What Financial Policies do We Need?

Sumber: Financial Control and Accountability Toolkit by Janet Shapiro (CIVICUS)

An overall Financial Policy will contain policies that relate to a number of areas. So, for example:

·         Donor or income policies (e.g. receipts, deposits)

·         Budgeting policies

·         Policies for financial management

·         Expenditure policies (e.g. amounts, payments, requisitions, non-budgeted expenditure)

·         Travel policies (e.g. car hire, class of airfare or hotel, per diems)

·         Auditing policies

·         Assets policies (e.g. purchasing, utilisation, maintenance and disposal – vehicle policies go here).

·         Petty cash policy

·         Salary policy

·         Staff loans

·         Opening and operating a bank account.

An overall Financial Policy will contain policies that relate to a number of areas: donor or income policies, budgeting policies, policies for financial management, expenditure policies, travel policies, auditing policies, assets policies, petty cash policy, salary policy, staff loans.

CIVICUS: World Alliance for Citizen Participation is an international allianceestablished in 1993 to nurture the foundation, growth and protection of citizen actionthroughout the world, especially in areas where participatory democracy and citizens’freedom of association are threatened. CIVICUS envisions a worldwide community ofinformed, inspired, committed citizens in confronting the challenges facinghumanity.

These CIVICUS Toolkits have been produced to assist civil society organisationsbuild their capacity and achieve their goals. The topics range from budgeting,strategic planning and dealing with the media, to developing a financial strategy andwriting an effective funding proposal. All are available on-line, in MS-Word and PDFformat at www.civicus.org and on CD-ROM.

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