[limiting to board-discuss for being rather specific] Marc Paré wrote: > Are we getting any monthly interest income coming from our > contingency plan money that was set aside? If so, should this not > also be reflected in the monthly revenues or is any profit reported > on the annual report? Are we getting any interest profit at all? > We're getting interest payments at least for the capital stock, but reporting for that happens only on a quarterly basis.
> Office supplies ... why are there no office supplies costs? Have we > not made use of paper/pencils/pens/staples ...? > Yes, but noone charged TDF for it. ;) > Telephone costs ... how are these incurred? Do we have a telephone > account with a company or are these cost submissions from members? > We have SIP phone lines for Berlin, see our legal info at http://www.documentfoundation.org/imprint - this is unfortunately mandatory. A few board members and Admins are connected to that account, and use it sometimes for outgoing calls on TDF business. > Tax consultation fees ... Is this a one time cost or is this a > monthly costs that will appear each month? > It is on a as-needed basis - the sum you notice for March was for the annual report. > Payroll provider ... Is this to manage the one salaried employee? Or > is the payroll provider also providing other services to the TDF? > The former. > Bank surcharchages ... are there no monthly bank charges? If not, is > this due to the amount kept in our accounts? > This is again an idiosyncracy of the German reporting - that dedicated account for bank surcharges is for costs incurred for capital management. Normal bank account costs for the charitable part of TDF are subsumed under account 2900. > Insurance costs ... are there no monthly insurance costs (for > example on our infrastructure/servers, hardware etc. or are these > paid in one sum at the start of the insurance terms? > Those are annual payments, yes. > Is there a location on our pages where we can see a complete > breakdown of the budget items on the report? If we are publishing > these as budget items, then we should also be publishing a page > location with a complete breakdown of all of the stated costs for > the membership to see. If we do have such pages, I would suggest > that the location be reported on the Budget summary for the purposes > of clarity and oversight. > Not sure I get your request right - you are asking for itemized, transaction-by-transaction reports for the budgets? Or a decision wiki page or somesuch, where budget decisions are collected? Cheers, -- Thorsten
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