Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo Treasurer update: 2013 budget, accounting and 501c3 status
Thanks for the hard work on our books Daniel! Landon On Tue, May 7, 2013 at 7:37 PM, Daniel Morissette dmorisse...@mapgears.comwrote: OSGeo Members, This email is to give you a few quick updates on OSGeo's finance front: 1- 2013 budget The 2013 budget has been adopted at the 2013-04-11 board meeting. It is available in the wiki at http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/**OSGeo_Budget_2013http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Budget_2013 2- Outsourcing of book keeping and accounting Since the early days of OSGeo, all book keeping and accounting was done by our Executive Director, and then in 2011 I took over those tasks as treasurer. However accounting is better done by a real accountant and having a volunteer treasurer handling those tasks is not sustainable in the long run, especially when the treasurer is likely to change from year to year. For this reason we are looking into options to outsource the book keeping and accounting tasks to an accountant knowledgeable about nonprofits to help keep our books straight, produce regular financial statements, and mostly insure continuity between treasurers from year to year. We may have found a skilled and affordable resource to handle this for us. One of the first tasks for this resource would be to review and cleanup the books from past years as needed and then produce formal financial statements for fiscal years 2011 and 2012 that we can then share with our members. More info about this in the not too distant future I hope. 3- Non-profit status with the IRS (a.k.a. 501c3 status) Our nonprofit status in the US is not resolved yet. We had an exchange with the IRS agent responsible for our case a few weeks ago and provided some missing information. I expect that we will hear back from them soon with a decision on our status. More info about our recent exchanges with the IRS is available at http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/** 501c3_Application:_Questions_**from_IRS,_September_2012http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/501c3_Application:_Questions_from_IRS,_September_2012 That's it for now Daniel (OSGeo Treasurer) __**_ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/**mailman/listinfo/discusshttp://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo Treasurer update: 2013 budget, accounting and 501c3 status
On 13-05-08 10:40 AM, Landon Blake wrote: Thanks for the hard work on our books Daniel! Landon And thanks to you Landon for your hard work on the Journal, another important piece of the OSGeo puzzle! :-) -- Daniel Morissette http://www.mapgears.com/ Provider of Professional MapServer Support since 2000 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo Treasurer update: 2013 budget, accounting and 501c3 status
OSGeo Members, This email is to give you a few quick updates on OSGeo's finance front: 1- 2013 budget The 2013 budget has been adopted at the 2013-04-11 board meeting. It is available in the wiki at http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Budget_2013 2- Outsourcing of book keeping and accounting Since the early days of OSGeo, all book keeping and accounting was done by our Executive Director, and then in 2011 I took over those tasks as treasurer. However accounting is better done by a real accountant and having a volunteer treasurer handling those tasks is not sustainable in the long run, especially when the treasurer is likely to change from year to year. For this reason we are looking into options to outsource the book keeping and accounting tasks to an accountant knowledgeable about nonprofits to help keep our books straight, produce regular financial statements, and mostly insure continuity between treasurers from year to year. We may have found a skilled and affordable resource to handle this for us. One of the first tasks for this resource would be to review and cleanup the books from past years as needed and then produce formal financial statements for fiscal years 2011 and 2012 that we can then share with our members. More info about this in the not too distant future I hope. 3- Non-profit status with the IRS (a.k.a. 501c3 status) Our nonprofit status in the US is not resolved yet. We had an exchange with the IRS agent responsible for our case a few weeks ago and provided some missing information. I expect that we will hear back from them soon with a decision on our status. More info about our recent exchanges with the IRS is available at http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/501c3_Application:_Questions_from_IRS,_September_2012 That's it for now Daniel (OSGeo Treasurer) ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
