Hi Tomasz, I knew the chat we had over a tasty fresh fish dinner in Milan would pay off :-)
On 25 April 2013 12:28, Tomasz Ganicz <[email protected]> wrote: > If you want, we can try with Wikimedia Polska. Here there is a rough table: > http://pl.wikimedia.org/wiki/U%C5%BCytkownik:Polimerek/Spraw_zarzadu#Finanse > just showing our ratio of operational costs and other parts of our > costs for 2012. It looks like a good executive top level summary, though I am relying on Google translate. :-D > In our case the operational costs are well defined by general rules of > accounting, but they differ from your definition - i.e. it does not > cover all salaries if they are integral part of the projects, but does > cover salaries of our secretary and accountant. But for example it > also covers cost of our toolsever and internet domains... I don't see any problem in salaries (or contractor fees) that relate to project activities being declared as "program costs". We should just take care that these are not used to account for regularly recurring costs which ought to logically be thought of as administration even if "technical" costs. > IMHO the general reporting could be like this: > *General operational/office costs (salaries of office workers, cost of > maintaining office, cost of legal stuff, cost of travels and meetings > of workers and members of the boards and other "decisive bodies") > *Technical infrastructure costs (servers etc. + salaries of > technicians who maintain it ) > *Costs of projects and special programs (overall, salaries, meetings, > travel, technical, others) - maybe spread by a type of program (ie. > producing content, software improvement, outreach, promotion, others) > > + > > *General info about overall costs of all salaries (easy to calculate > and define). > *General info about costs of all travel reimbursements (easy to > calculate as well) > *General info about costs of all meetings and conferences. Excellent, so quickly looking at your Income and Expenditure tables, let's take Ad's good practice ratio and define the 3 categories needed as: fundraising = administering grants and fund applications (I can see your grant, other income and membership dues, but not the cost of managing these; it may be better to estimate them and deduct them from "administration" rather than leaving this as zero) program = costs of projects and special programs (I would add your costs of conferences and scholarships (stypendia) payments here) administration = general operational/office costs + technical infrastructure costs (unless specific items can be identified as 'program') I am unsure where Promotion (Promocja) fits in, this may need to be broken down a little more if it splits between the 3 categories above. Does this mean that you could now calculate a provisional 'fundraising : program : administration' ratio? Cheers, Fae -- [email protected] http://j.mp/faewm Guide to email tags: http://j.mp/mfae _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
