As follow-up, we’ve formed the 2010-2011 Audit Committee. Thanks to Matt
Bisanz, Ad Huikeshoven, Renata Stasaityte, and Michael Snow who have agreed
to join me for another year on the Committee. More details and backgrounds
at
.
-stu
On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 1:26 PM, Stu West <stu(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
As many of you know, the Wikimedia Foundation has an
Audit Committee which
represents the Board in oversight of financial and accounting issues,
including planning, reporting, audits, and internal controls (see
http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Audit_committee for details). The
Committee typically serves for one year, roughly from July through the late
Spring when the Foundation files its annual tax return in the U.S. This
past year the committee included members from the broad community, from
chapters, and from the Foundation's Board (including me as Committee Chair).
We’ve recently started forming the 2010-2011 Audit Committee and as we did
last year would like to call for volunteers from the community. The time
commitment is modest, as far as Wikimedia goes: review the Foundation’s
financial practices and financial statements/filings, and then participate
in three or four conference calls during the year with the staff and our
independent auditors at KPMG (see
http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Audit_charter for full duties). The
primary requirement for membership is “financial literacy”, some kind of
professional experience with finance, accounting or audit. As it is a
governance and oversight role, Committee members cannot serve under a
pseudonym, undergo the same basic background check as others in WMF
financial oversight roles, and must make the same conflict of interest
disclosures required of the Foundation's Board.
If you’re interested in serving on the Committee, please email me at stu
<at>
wikimedia.org with your resume/CV and your thoughts on how you think
you could contribute. Thanks.
-s
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Stu West
stu <at>
wikimedia.org
[User:Stu]
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