13th Annual CFDG Charity Finance Conference

Chairman's Welcome, CFDG Perspectives
and New Developments

Paul Breckell
(Chair of Charity Finance Directors' Group)

Charities Bill & the Future of the Sector

Helen Edwards
(Director General, Home Office Communities Group)

Charities Accountability and Beyond

Regulatroy Change and Compliance

Managing Cost through Cooperation

Finance Within the Organisation

A1 Case Study: VAT in the Arts Charities

The London Zoo case, VAT Grouping and solutions to other problems as dealt with by Dulwich Picture Gallery and the Haydn Mozart Society.

Rosamund Sykes (Dulwich Picture Gallery)

B1 Charity reporting in a rapidly changing climate

What we will need to do to rise to the challenge of ensuring transparency, accountability and comparability.

Les Jones & Carol Rudge (haysmacintyre)

C1 Cost Allocation & Full Cost Recovery

The true cost of outputs and worth of resources. Even before the next SORP there are already tools that you can use to ensure funders' support for your organisation.

Nigel Scott
(Mastering Charity Management)

D1 The Treasurer / Finance Director Relationship

One of the key relationships in any charity. This Amnesty UK case study gives examples of what works and what doesn't.

Melvin Coleman & Karen Williams, (Amnesty International UK)

A2 Accountability And Beyond

Current trends in social accountability and particular issues for the voluntary sector. This session will outline the practical first steps for organisations wanting to get to grips with social auditing.

Adrian Henriques
(Independent Advisor, formerly Head of Accountability, NEF)

B2 Advanced Data Protection

Are you compliant or complacent? This talk examines European and domestic data protection laws, and the steps to take to bring human resources, marketing and database functions into line with the law.

Stewart Room
(Rowe Cohen)

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C2 Cooperative Consumerism for Charities

Pooling resources to increase the effectiveness of procurement. Surestock introduces an e-procurement model for the voluntary sector, which aims to increase savings while improving management information.

Richard Haynes
(Surestock)

D2: Practical Benchmarking

Benchmarking is about improving performance through changing the practices and processes which drive it. How Finance Directors can initiate benchmarking initiatives in their organisations.

Roger Parry
(Agenda Consulting)

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Focus Session: Performance measurement in charities: poisoned chalice or holy grail?

What is performance? Why measure it? What are the difficulties of measuring it? And how can it be measured?

Noel Hyndman
(Professor of Management Accounting, School of Management and Economics, The Queen's University of Belfast)

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A3 Insolvency and how to Avoid it

Recognising change and managing its impact is vital. Case studies illustrate where the insolvency precipice lies and how to keep away from the edge.

Peter Gotham
(Gotham Erskine & Chair, ICAEW Charity and Voluntary Sector Committee)

B3 Reporting simply for comparison?

Guidestar and SIR - Is regulation introducing an extra burden for charities or can something good come off this?

Erica Roberts
(Guidestar)
&
Geraldine Peacock or Rosie Chapman
(Charity Commission)

C3 Managing Outsourcing

What to outsource successfully and how to manage contracts once in place. Drawing on good practice case studies this session offers a structured approach to defining requirements and to comparing your options.

Kate Sayer (Sayer Vincent)

D3 Internal Controls and Auditing

With increased public scrutiny charities have to ensure more than ever they take good care of their money.

Perry King & Martin Smith
(Charities Internal Audit Group)

A4 First steps in Governance

Assessing the need, building the structure, controlling the risk. This session introduces you to key issues of governance.

Malcolm Lynch
(Wrigleys)

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B4 - SORP and All That Stuff

With new guidelines from the ASB and impending revision of SORP FDs will need to understand the implications for their financial reporting. This session will highlight problem areas and areas of impending change.

Pesh Framjee
(Deloitte)

C4 Shall we move in together?

Reducing cost by sharing premises. A pioneering co-location model, which not only reduces costs but can increase organisations' efficiency through shared knowledge and resources.

Adele Blakebrough
(Community Action Network)

D4 Pensions are for People

It is possible to keep a final salary pension scheme going, but hard choices have to be made. This session explains the human and financial processes Branados have gone through to develop an occupational pension scheme that should ensure ongoing solvency.

Ian Theodoreson
(Barnardos)

The Future Role of the Charity Commission

John Stoker
(Chief Charity Commissioner, Charity Commission)

Followed by Panel Discussion about the Future of the Sector and its implications for Charity Finance