Review the following questions. If you cannot provide an answer some or many of these, you may be able to benefit from the services of Trebuchet Financial Management Inc.

Understand your Funding

• What is it for?
• Where does it come from?
• What is the expected cash flow?

Understand your Funder

• Do you Know your obligations?
• Do you know your reporting deadlines?
• Are your reports submitted on time?
• Do you provide proper transactional support?
• Are you adequately transparent to the board, members and funders?

Understand your Organization

• Do you have governance issues?
• Where does the accountability lie?
• What are the Policies and Procedures in place to manage your funding?
• Is there an authorization framework?

Understand your results

• Do you report on actual expenditures vs budgets
• Can you match your actual expenditures to the workplan?
• Do you conduct a Variance analysis?
• Do you compare actual cash flow to a forecast