Benchmarking Workshops - Finance CountTM

The Finance Count workshop program for Autumn 2008 is now available.

Finance Count Workshop: Using balanced scorecard reporting strategically
Thursday 30th October 2008

Peter Bradbury, Chief Financial Officer, Arthritis Research Campaign

Peter joined arc in March of last year just as they were completing a 5-year strategic plan. To help the organisation track its progress towards the plan and to demonstrate best practice in accountability, Peter developed a bespoke balanced scorecard reporting system which includes the key measureable elements of the plan. He believes that balanced scorecard reporting is a key tool in internal communications, allowing him to really engage the trustees, and all the staff, in the activities and development of the organisation.

Finance Count Workshop: Maximising Gift Aid Return
Thursday 13th November 2008

Charles Scott, Director of Finance, Help the Aged

Over the past few years Help the Aged have invested significantly in their Gift Aid processes. Charles will explain the rigorous processing within the organisation, which has led to consistently clean audits over the past few years, and includes using a state-of-the-art database, outsourcing the chasing of gift aid forms to a telemarketing company, and moving all the forms onto an electronic system to make the audit trail easier to follow. Help the Aged’s trading arm has just passed the £1million gift aid mark, and Charles will also discuss how this was achieved, including the careful balance that was struck to protect VAT, corporation tax and business rates relief. This workshop will be relevant to both those charities with a trading arm and those without.

For details and/ or to book on either of the above courses please complete the attached form.

More information can be found on the Finance Count™ website
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Past Workshops

To access copies of the good practice guides produced from past Finance CountTM workshops, please click on the links below (N.B. you will need to be logged-in to do this):

Workshop 1 - Outsourcing versus In-house: which way to go on Payroll?
Workshop 2 - Modernising the Finance Function
Workshop 3 - Financial Reporting to Non-Accountants
Workshop 4 - Cash and Treasury Management
Workshop 5 - Collaboration in Purchasing