[Wikimedia-l] Fwd: Question: How much does administration in Chapters cost the Wikimedia movement?

[Jon Davies]

An answer might be to have common criteria included in the FDC bids?


On 25 April 2013 00:29, J Alexandr Ledbury-Romanov <
alexandrdmitriromanov at gmail.com> wrote:

> Forwarding from a non subscriber.
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> Alex
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> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Ad Huikeshoven <ad at wikimedia.nl>
> Date: 2013/4/24
> Subject: Question: How much does administration in Chapters cost the
> Wikimedia movement?
> To: wikimedia-l-owner at lists.wikimedia.org
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> Hi Fae,
>
> Great question Fae. For a fundraising charity a breakdown in program,
> fundraising and administrative cost is natural, and in compliance with
> accountanting standards. As far as I know WMF reports according to FAS 117,
> see
>
> http://www.fasb.org/cs/BlobServer?blobcol=urldata&blobtable=MungoBlobs&blobkey=id&blobwhere=1175820923228&blobheader=application%2Fpdf
>
> In the UK the standard would be SORP. Wikimedia Nederland adopted Richtlijn
> 650 which is mandatory for getting a certificate from CBF, see
>
> http://www.rjnet.nl/Documents/Uitingen%202011/0000034578_RJ-Uiting%202011-1%20dd%2031-01-11.pdf
>  and http://www.cbf.nl/CBF-Beoordelingen/criteria-keur.php.
>
> The accounting standards give guidelines about what can be allocated to
> program costs, what should be included in fundraising cost and what are
> administrative cost. FDC entities are required to produce audited financial
> statements. The external auditor will review allocation of cost and
> transparency of explanatory notes.
>
> International charity guideline is to have
> program:fundraising:administrative cost ratios according to 75:10:15,
> noting the 10 and 15 are maximums. A source for these ratios is
> http://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm?bay=content.view&cpid=48
>
> Costs of evaluating impact of programs. Would you include those cost in
> administrative costs? Could costs of impact evaluations be part of program
> cost. If not, why not? If yes, what is your rationale?
>
> Greetings and regards,
>
> Ad Huikeshoven
> Treasurer Wikimedia Nederland
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