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See also Section 7: Financial management in the Community Resource Kit.

  • Articles and Books (details)

    Articles in business magazines and books can also apply to community organisations.
    Date updated: 30 March 2006
  • Basic Financial Management (details)

    Section 7 of the Community Resource Kit: Financial Management has a good introduction to Financial Management that covers: Financial management, planning, record keeping and reporting The role ...
    Date updated: 17 May 2011
  • Business Plan Guidelines for Not-for-Profit Organisations (details)

    A common point of view is that charitable trusts and incorporated societies are not allowed to make a profit. This is not true. If your organisation insists on surviving on a knife edge then one day ...
    Date updated: 25 February 2008
  • Charities Commission - Financial Management (details)

    The Charities Commission website has a section dedicated to helping charities effectively manage money and be accountable to their stakeholders - including funders, board, Inland Revenue, the ...
    Date updated: 15 June 2011
  • Checklist of Non-profit Organisational Indicators (details)

    This checklist is a resource developed by staff and volunteers of the United Way of Minneapolis Area (USA) for internal use by non-profit organizations. Management can use the checklist to identify ...
    Date updated: 26 June 2008
  • Community Accounts Mentoring Service (details)

    The Community Accounts Mentoring Service (CAMS) provides training and up-skilling in book-keeping, accounting and financial management for community organisations in the Greater Wellington area.
    Date updated: 1 November 2011
  • Financial Reserves (details)

    Why your organisation should consider developing a Financial Reserves Policy. Discussion paper from Pat Hanley, Social & Civic Policy Institute, Wellington, March, 2006. Reproduced by permission.
    Date updated: 10 May 2006
  • Financial Risk Management: A Guide for Nonprofit Executives (details)

    This book from the NonProfit Risk Management Center explores the topic of financial risk management in the nonprofit world.
    Date updated: 14 July 2009
  • Free Sorted seminar resources (details)

    If you’re working with people who need help with getting their money matters under control, you may like to offer the Sorted seminar 'Sorted – Your guide to getting there'.
    Date updated: 11 May 2009
  • IRD Information for Māori organisations (Ngā whakahaere Māori) (details)

    Information for Māori authorities and Marae including an outline of the Maori authority election process, the application of provisional tax and the process organisations must follow when making ...
    Date updated: 25 June 2008
  • IRD's Smart business (details)

    An introductory guide for businesses and non-profit organisations by Inland Revenue.
    Date updated: 27 June 2008
  • Managing the money (details)

    This section of Hutt City Council’s Community Development Good Practice Guidelines provides basic information regarding policies and procedures to ensure an organisation’s finances are ...
    Date updated: 20 July 2009
  • Managing Well resource catalogue (details)

    The Managing Well resource catalogue (online in the Community Centre section of this web site) includes references or links to manuals, websites, information sheets, books, and other documents, and a ...
    Date updated: 7 December 2009
  • Not-for-profit Financial Reporting Guide (details)

    This guide, produced by the New Zealand Institute of Chartered Accountants, focuses on financial reporting by small to medium not-for-profit organisations such as clubs and societies, sports groups, ...
    Date updated: 24 January 2011
  • Our Community: Understand Money (details)

    Australian social enterprise Our Community's Understand Money section offers a number of free resources to help you better manage your not-for-profit group's finances.
    Date updated: 22 July 2011
  • Strategic and Business Planning Guide (details)

    This guide is designed by Sport and Recreation New Zealand (SPARC) to assist sport and recreation organisations with strategic and business planning, but will also be of use to other community ...
    Date updated: 4 June 2009