Finance Pack 2022 Questionnaire
The 31st of August marked the end of Playcentre’s 2021/22 financial year. We are required to produce Group Accounts, which will be used in our 2022 Annual Report. This is now the time for Centre Treasurers to shine!
Once all Playcentres have their Xero accounts finalised, we will use a bit of Finance magic to suck up the figures from over 400 Xero accounts. With a bit more work, we will be able to use these figures as the basis of our Group Accounts, satisfy our auditors that everything is shipshape, and we will be done!
Our Group financial statements are required by the Ministry of Education, the Tertiary Education Commission, Charities Services and various grant providers, so they are really important in ensuring that we continue to get the funding we need to operate. Producing Group Accounts also means that any Playcentres which are part of the Playcentre Charity Group are not required to file separate financial statements. If you want to join the group, just pass the motion at a Centre Meeting and email [email protected] from your Centre account.
The first step is to get all our Xero accounts up to date, with the bank fully reconciled and any fixed assets purchased during the year added to the fixed asset schedule. If you get stuck with something sticky, send a message to [email protected] and we will help. Bear in mind though that volume of queries will be through the roof at this time, so please be patient. If you are really behind and don’t know what to do, please contact your Centre Advisor.
Once your Xero figures are all ready, please fill out the year end Finance Pack 2022 Questionnaire. This will let us know that your Centre is good to go, and it also allows us to gather some data we use in our Annual Report (such as whether your Centre runs Bi-lingual sessions). Please can this be completed by Friday 23rd September.
Thank you in advance to all our Treasurers, who are volunteering their time and expertise for their Playcentre. Your mahi helps make all that Playcentre offers possible.