{"id":18802,"date":"2018-03-22T16:23:26","date_gmt":"2018-03-22T16:23:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/?p=18802"},"modified":"2021-02-22T10:16:48","modified_gmt":"2021-02-22T10:16:48","slug":"why-small-charities-should-really-be-opting-for-independent-examination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/2018\/03\/why-small-charities-should-really-be-opting-for-independent-examination\/","title":{"rendered":"Why small charities should really be opting for independent examination"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s3\">A recent article on <a href=\"http:\/\/CivilSociety.co.uk\">CivilSociety.co.uk<\/a> makes the point that for transparency purposes the process of an Independent Examination for smaller charities makes a lot of sense.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s3\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.civilsociety.co.uk\/voices\/independent-examination-mark-spofforth.html\">The article is here<\/a> and worth a read by anyone in your organisation involved with finances.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s3\">A key description of the examination taken from the article is:<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><em><span class=\"s3\">Independent Examination is&#8230;<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s3\">External scrutiny by someone financially aware, a sort of negative assurance as opposed to an audit, limited in scope but stringent enough to identify major mistakes or even a simple lack of accounts. The examiner looks for errors in the process of transferring the accounting records into the summary financial statement, and for any unusual matters that should be explained.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s3\">Read the article for much more information, why it\u2019s important and how to find out even more.<\/span><\/p>\n<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-18802\" data-postid=\"18802\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-18802 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n    <\/div>\n<!--\/themify_builder_content-->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A bit of a dry topic &#8211; but important. Make sure your managers, board and finance staff consider independent examination. Read on to find out why.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"xn-wppe-expiration":[],"xn-wppe-expiration-action":[],"xn-wppe-expiration-prefix":[],"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[128],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3cThd-4Tg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18802"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18802"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18802\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18823,"href":"http:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18802\/revisions\/18823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}