Are your charity accounts being correctly examined?
21 May 2014, Charities
Smarter accounting
21 May 2014, Charities
To maintain public confidence in the work of charities, charity law requires most charities (income over £10,000) to have an external scrutiny of their accounts. Provided a charity is not required by law or its governing document to have an audit trustees may choose a simpler and less expensive form of external scrutiny called an independent examination.
Trustees may opt for an independent examination instead of an audit provided their charity’s gross income is not more than £500,000, or where gross income exceeds £250,000 its gross assets are not more than £3.26 million
Details in Charity notice CC31
Its estimated that approximately 90,000 UK charities require independent examination and that there are approximately 20,000 independent examiners.
The Charity Commission has a Framework in Notice CC32 to explain what the examiner needs to do
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