| Number | Good Practice Guide |
| 1 | Dealing with cash*
A detailed step by step guide to ensuring that your petty cash tin always balances! It also deals with what to do with cash income. |
| 2 | Financial Procedures*
A set of rules that your organisation can use as a model in order to prevent error and fraud. |
| 3 | How to do a bank reconciliation*
A bank reconciliation is an essential part of any good book-keeper's toolkit. This guide takes you through the process and also provides a blank reconciliation form. |
| 4 | Book keeping* This guide is aimed at organisations who use manual books rather than a computerised accounts package. Example book-keeping sheets and authorisation forms are included in the guide |
| 5 | Insurance for Voluntary & Community Groups
Every voluntary organisation should consider what insurance it needs from the outset. This guide takes you through the different types of insurance that you should consider |
| 6 | Quick books (accounting package) - A
Starter Guide Quickbooks is an accounting package that many voluntary organisations use. This guide introduces you to the package and provides information on how to get started. |
| 7 | Charity Registration
It is a little-known fact that if an organisation has wholly charitable objectives and a turnover of more than £1000 it is legally obliged to apply to the Charity Commission for charitable status. This brief guide takes you through the benefits of registering |
| 8 | Beginner's Start-up Guide to Excel Spreadsheets for Finance
This guide introduces you to how to use a spreadsheet for finance; it is aimed at real beginners. |
| 9 | The Role of the Treasurer
If you have just taken over as treasurer and do not know what you are supposed to do, this is the guide for you. It also provides a checklist of financial tasks. |
| 10 | Getting ready to have your Annual Accounts checked
This guide helps to take the sweat out of getting things ready for your accountant at the end of the year. It includes a checklist of documents that the accountant may wish to see |
| 11 | Gift Aid Guide |
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12 |
Becoming a Company. The accounting requirements
for small charitable companies. |
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13 |
Reserves |
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14 | Expenses A guide to paying expenses to employees, volunteers
and you management committee. |
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15 | QuickBooks
Procedure Timetable A checklist and
advice on jobs that you should be doing on QuickBooks, when they should
be done and some things to look out for. |
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16 | Restricted
Fund Accounting A guide to the
difference between restricted and unrestricted funds and how you should
distinguish between the two in the accounts. |
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17 | SAGE Line 50
- A starter guide An introduction to
this accounts package and how to get started. |
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18 | QuickBooks -
Basic Procedures A guide to regular bookkeeping jobs,
reconciliations and creating budgets |
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19 | SAGE Line 50
- Advanced A guide looking at Customers, Invoicing, Suppliers and
Budgets |
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20 | QuickBooks -
Basic Procedures 2 A guide looking items and invoicing, receiving
payments and reports and statements. |
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21 | VAT for small
charities and voluntary organisations An introductory guide to VAT,
looking at VAT categories, reliefs available and recovery of VAT. |
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22 | Money
Management for Community Groups A guide to financial planning,
control and management for smaller voluntary and community organisations
covering budgeting, bookkeeping, financial rules and annual accounts.
Available in Hard Copy Only. |