Other resources

Budget Template
an excel document giving a layout for your financial plans.  The headings can be altered/extended to suit your organisation's needs.

Diagram of links between financial records
a diagram showing how all your financial documentation fits together; demonstrating the importance of your cashbbook.

Excel Cashbook
a spreadsheet for recording income and expenditure transactions each month, with instructions on the first page.

Ideal Cashbook
an example of how one month's transactions would be recorded into an analysed cashbook.  The cashbook totals are calculated in the sheet, with a bank reconciliation at the foot.  The second tab shows how figures from the cashbook are drawn into a report.

Money Management Booklet
an easy to follow guide to the four foundation stones of good financial management.  Available in a glossy hard copy brochure by post or to download in 4 separate files.

Payment authorisation slip (excel)
a simple authorisation slip that you can fill in and attach to your invoices to make the authorisation process transparent. Each page contains 4 slips.

Payment authorisation slip (word)
a more detailed authorisation slip including sections for checking of the goods, entry on the accounting system, authorisation and payment. This slip takes up a full page.