From managing a charity’s financial resources for long-term sustainability to compliance, disclosure and transparency, learn how to develop a comprehensive action plan to address accounting gaps in your charity.
The COVID-19 battered economy has led to a fall in donations as citizens and businesses alike shift their immediate concerns to personal livelihoods and economic survival. How do you ensure sustainable operations during these difficult times? To preserve public trust, charities are held to high standards of accountability and transparency. How do you ensure accountability to your stakeholders?
Therefore, charities’ governance and financial stewardship are necessary for charities to manage their financial resources while preserving public trust strategically. Only when the charity’s board, management and finance staff work closely together to ensure proper governance, compliance and processes will they then be able to survive and thrive in this economic environment.
The seminar will shed light on 5 fundamental questions that all board members and senior management must ask to understand the importance of financial management for charities:
This seminar is part of the two-part Governance and Financial Stewardship for Charities seminar series in collaboration with Usha Menon Management Consultancy.
By the end of the seminar, participants will be able to:
Led by Dr Isabel Sim, editor of the series of Accounting and Finance Handbooks for Charities, and lead author for Accounting for Good – Helping Charities Do Good Better, a project in collaboration with NUS and ISCA.
Understand your charity’s long-term financial needs and break the ‘starvation cycle’ that charities face.
Develop a plan of action that you can bring back to your charity after two days.
Pre-approved VCF funding of up to 80% available for charities.
Management team, board members and finance staff.
Early Bird pricing until 29 June!
| Standard Fee | $1853.00 |
| SSAs-Charities Capability Fund (CCF) Training Grant | $853.00 |
| Community Care Training Grant (CCTG) | $185.30 |
| Standard Fee | $1962.00 |
| SSAs-Charities Capability Fund (CCF) Training Grant | $962.00 |
| Community Care Training Grant (CCTG) | $196.20 |
All prices stated include GST.
*Up to 80% seminar fee funding for NCSS member agencies(CCF Subsidy is capped at $1000 per pax)
**Up to 90% seminar fee funding for AIC approved organisations to be claimed directly from AIC. (Full payment is required from participants at the time of registration.)
For details and funding eligibility, please consult with your HR department. Kindly note that we, as the training provider, are unable to assist with inquiries related to this funding.
Dr Isabel Sim is the principal consultant at Integrative CSR Consulting. She was formerly Senior Research Fellow, Department of Social Work, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, National University of Singapore as well as Director (Projects), Centre for Social Development (Asia). She served as Head of Corporate Governance Practice, Centre for Governance, Institutions and Organisations (CGIO) and Senior Lecturer, Department of Strategy and Policy, NUS Business School from 2012 to 2014.
She obtained her PhD in finance from The University of Western Australia in 2011. She is the editor of the series Accounting and Finance Handbooks for Charities including Budgeting and Cash Flow Management, Fund Accounting for Charities, Full Cost Recovery for Charities and Cost-Effective Audit for Charities. She is also the lead author for Accounting for Good – Helping Charities Do Good Better, a project in collaboration with NUS and ISCA. Besides extensive experience in applied research in the charity sector, Dr Sim has more than 15 years of experience in teaching working adults. She has taught accounting, corporate governance, finance, and economics subjects in MBA, EMBA, and other professional programmes.