Blog/Rangitaki
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- Automated Cash Book — Helping you report your cash transactions
- Categories in the performance report – What about grants?
- Feedback on the 2019 Charity Reporting Awards
- It’s your first Audit, what do you need to file?
- Options when ending a charity
- 5 things charities need to know about the new Incorporated Societies Act
- Accounting and auditing fees
- Annual reporting is crucial and here's what you need to know
- Annual reporting timeline
- Being flexible with your rules
- Being political and charitable
- The new reporting standards are here and yes, they do affect your charity!
- Charitable trusts – how to set one up
- Ending an Incorporated Society
- New requirement to review your governance procedures
- Changes to the definition of officer
- Myth Busting: Advocacy is not charitable
- Just had an AGM? Don’t forget to update your charity’s details
- Myth Busting: your officers always need to be NZ Citizens and physically in New Zealand
- Myth Busting: you need an accountant to prepare your Performance Report
- Guest blog: Cartel activity - illegal and harmful to procurement
- Myth busting: Being a registered charity makes you a legal entity
- Reflections on the 2022 New Zealand Charities Reporting Awards
- Myth Busting: What Charities Services can do when you have an internal dispute
- Myth Busting: Is setting up a new charitable group the best way to help your community?
- Health and safety
- Myth busting: when charities can provide housing
- How does Charities Services handle complaints?
- Reviewing the Tier 3 and Tier 4 Reporting Standards – How to have your voice heard
- Myth busting: when charities can run businesses
- The new Trusts Act – What does it mean for registered charities?
- Innovation and best practice in charity reporting - Feedback on the 2020 Charity Reporting Awards
- How COVID-19 may affect your audit report
- Myth Busting: who can register as a charity
- Options when ending a charity
- Debunking deregistration myths with data
- What to be or not to be - Incorporated Societies and Charitable Trusts
- Restricting information from the Register
- Good governance across Aotearoa
- Streamlining registration - Common issues in applications
- Conflicts of interest and the consequences when they lead to private benefit
- Tier 4 Microsoft Excel template - Trouble shooting
- Conflicts of interest and registering as a charity
- Consolidation and registering as a group
- Update on our Governance Project - December 2018
- Fraud in the charitable sector
- Conflicts of interest and making decisions
- Let's talk about tech
- The Charities Register - Getting the big picture
- To audit or not to audit - that is the question
- When can Tier 3 entities apply Tier 2 standards for certain transactions?
- What is a Statement of Service Performance (SSP)
- Cash Flow Statement – Mystery or just mathematics?
- Conflicts of interest and the related party - When to disclose the guest list
- Charity reporting - The bigger picture
- Exchange and Non-Exchange Revenue (Part 3) – Disclosures
- Exchange and Non-exchange Revenue (Part 2) – When to recognise it
- What charities need to know about the New Zealand Business Number
- Exchange or Non-Exchange (Part 1) - Which is it?
- Is being registered with Charities Services still right for your organisation?
- Social enterprise and charity
- Ending a charity - What to do with what's left
- Upcoming election - things to think about as a charity
- Upcoming tax changes that might affect your charity
- Sports and charity: Rules of the game
- What charities need to know about spam
- Lessons on compliance through case reports
- Changes that will make it easier to claim donation tax credits