Building Capacity through Financial Management, A Practical Guide "Building capacity through financial management is a key way of achieving a more effective organisation. This then leads to an improved programme of activities. With strong financial management capacity, the group or organisation becomes more able to control its own affairs. Without it, the future is often uncertain: it may be impossible to predict when money will be short and, crucially, it may become impossible to fund programmes. This book presents practical ways to build financial management capacity in an international development context (although much of it applies to any non-profit organisation). It describes best practice in the specific tasks of financial management – for example, planning and budgeting and financial controls. It gives examples of how groups and organisations build their own capacity. It also considers what leadership teams can do to guide their organisation’s long-term direction (an activity sometimes called ‘governance’) and it describes other financial management aspects that can be built into an organisation’s structure." John Cammack’s book for NGOs was published by Oxfam in 2007. It includes plenty of practical examples and how-to descriptions. Useful templates and hardcopies are available at www.johncammack.net.
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Cost - Benefit Analysis "Cost/Benefit Analysis is a powerful, widely used and relatively easy tool for deciding whether to make a change.To use the tool, firstly work out how much the change will cost to make. Then calculate the benefit you will from it. Where costs or benefits are paid or received over time, work out the time it will take for the benefits to repay the costs.Cost/Benefit Analysis can be carried out using only financial costs and financial benefits. You may, however, decide to include intangible items within the analysis. As you must estimate a value for these, this inevitably brings an element of subjectivity into the process." Mindtool gives an example on how to use this tool. Cost-benefit analysis is a basic but useful instrument for planning.
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Financial Management for Emergencies - A survival guide for humanitarian programme managers "The aim of this guide is to help you to manage the financial resources in the critical first stages of an emergency. The material is in six sections. They will help you to make sure that you have: A useful budget, good relationships with donors, enough cash, the right finance staff, systems to record where money is coming from and going to, systems to control how money is used." It includes short case studies and checklists. This excellent site can work as a crash course for emergencies. The material can be downloaded to your computer free of charge. The guide was developed by John Cammack, Timothy Foster and Simon Hale in 2005.
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Mango's Financial Health Check for NGOs The Health Check involves answering a simple set of questions. They cover all the key areas of NGO financial management (including the four building blocks). It has been specifically designed for small and medium sized organisations (or field offices). At the end of the check-up, you will know whether you are doing fine or not, and where the problems are. Available in seven languages.
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MANGO, Management Accounting for NGOs Mango is a UK based charity that provides financial management services to relief and development operations. A very practical website which covers the nuts and bolts of NGO accounting. On its website you will find resource packs on financial management, accounting, job descriptions, donor reporting, as well as donor packs for ECHO, DFID, UNHCR.
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NGO Financial Management Pocket Guide This reference guide to proper financial policies helps beginners to understand how to start planning a comprehensive financial system for their organization. For generalists, the Pocket Guide provides quick insight into subjects which should be detailed in any organization's procedures, such as accounting policies, cash management, budgeting and budgetary control, travel, procurement of goods and services, payrol, reporting requirements. Includes examples and a glossary of terms. Developed by the Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation's Secure the Future Fund for its partner organizations and based on lessons learned in Southern and Eastern Africa. The fund tackles the HIV/AIDS pandemic in Africa.
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Project Budgeting and Accounting Short and useful introduction to budgeting and accounting. Chapters include: What is a budget, who is involved in budgeting, six simple stages in planning a budget, three stages in monitoring a budget. Includes tips and examples. John Cammack wrote this eight page guidance note of 2003 for BOND. It is available as PDF and as Word-document (BOND is a network of over 280 UK-based NGOs working in international development). If you wish to move beyond this introduction, we recommend to visit Mango, a specialist for management accounting for NGOs, at http://www.mango.org.uk/.
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