Workshop on Basic Financial Management training for non-finance personnel

Dear Sir/Madam,
TIMES FOUNDATION & SCHUMACHER CENTRE DELHI
 Invite you to the:
Workshop on Basic Financial Management training for non-finance personnel (2 Days)
19th & 20th August, 2005

Objectives : Creating basic awareness and knowledge on the day to day Financial Management and Accounting Processes


Broad Contents
- Financial Management as a process
- Basic Financial Management Documentation
- Accounting Records
- Co-ordination between Programme & Finance
- Budgeting, Internal Control & Monitoring
- Legal Requirement


Methodology
. Lectures/interactive sessions
. Games
. Brainstorming sessions/ experience sharing
. Group Discussion
. Case studies
. Exercises
. Power-point


Outcome
At the end of the training programme the participants would have the basic understanding of financial, accounting and legal matters which are required for day-to-day functioning of the organisations.



Target Audience
Schumacher Centre Delhi (SCD)
New Delhi

Schumacher Centre Delhi (SCD) is one of the newest among a number of organisations in the UK, US and elsewhere that make up the Schumacher Family. SCD was established with the initial aim of propagating Schumacher's name, ideas and thinking at the national level to government, diplomatic, corporate and development circles. For the past three years SCD has worked as a  forum for interchange of relevant ideas and thinking in rural development and disseminate knowledge through trainings and other means.

Trainer
Mr. Vijay Mathur

Educational Qualification:
Masters Degree in Commerce
Fellow member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India
MDP at IIM Calcutta on " Management of Non- Profit and Non - Government
organisation".

Experience:

He has been working with the NGO Sector for last 15 years. For the last sixyears, Executive Director of Financial Management Service Foundation [FMSF],a development resource organisation in India set up by EED, Germany to monitor the projects funded by them. Further, other areas of intervention ofFMSF include Capacity Building, Networking, Consultancy, Information Dissemination, and Research. He has been a resource person and trainer on Financial Management, Legal Compliances and Governance of Organisation both
at National and International level. Has been member of Finance Advisory Group of Council for World Mission, U.K. based charity from 1999 - 2001. He is the editor of the half yearly magazine 'INTERface' published by FMSF.

This mainly provides information on finance, legal regulations and governance of NGOs.

He has published two books on behalf of FMSF

- "Legal and Finance Handbook for Voluntary Organisations"

- "Manual of Financial Management and Legal Regulations"

He has wide experience of NGO governance being associated with many NGOs. He has extensively travelled in every nook and corner of India and world wide. He has been associated with evaluations of many development projects on behalf of various agencies.

He has facilitated workshops in India and other parts of the world such as China, Bangkok, Germany. He was invited by the Direct Taxes Regional Training Institute, , Bangalore to facilitate a workshop on Assesment of Trusts attended by the Income Tax Commissiones and Directors. He has been a panel speaker for seminars conducted by the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) on Not-for-profit Organisations.

The Programme is Non-residential and outstation participants are requested to contact Schumacher Centre Delhi for accommodation at the below given address:

Ms. Priya Panda/Dr. D.K.Giri
Programme Manager
Schumacher Centre Delhi
B-6/88, Safdurjung Enclave, New Delhi-10029
Tel-011-26193282/51653479
Fax-26195561
E-mail- priyagudi@yahoo.co.uk

Venue
The programme will be conducted at 'The Oneness Centre' 4 Tilak Marg, New
Delhi-110002

Duration
The programme will be conducted on 19TH & 20th August, 2005.

Timing
1000 hrs to 1700 hrs

Registration Fee
Rs. 2,000/-

Registration fee includes workshop participation, course material,refreshments and is non-refundable. However, in case you are unable to
attend, you could replace your name by nominating another participant.

Payment to be made in cash or by demand draft favouring "Times Foundation"at the below given address:

'The Oneness Centre' 4 Tilak Marg, New Delhi-110002

How to Participate

The participants are requested to fill up the 'Registration Form" and send it to Times Foundation, 4, Tilak Marg, New Delhi - 110002. For registration, please contact Ms. Nidhi Gupta/Mr. Anil Chopra at: 011-23782396/19

For queries regarding the workshop, the participants may contact Ms. Angela Devi/Ms. Sandhya Sriram at: 011-23302864,23302856,23302103.
Email:timesfoundation@timesgroup.com/angela.devi@timesgroup.com/sandhya.sriram@timesgroup.com

Registration closes August 15, 2005

Note: To facilitate greater interaction and participation, the workshop is limited to a maximum of 20 participants on first come first served basis.

This is part of an initiative of Times Foundation who has evolved a comprehensive capacity enhancement programme to offer opportunities to non-governmental organisations and other people organizations for collective learning. The programme aims to support organisations to strengthen their role in society and improve the outreach of their activity by building up their capacity.
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Times Foundation, 7, Bahadurshah Zafar Marg, New Delhi - 110 002, Tel:
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Angela

Times Foundation






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