On 02/03/16 09:43, Paul Wise wrote: > I'm not on the auditor team but... > > On Wed, Mar 2, 2016 at 4:30 PM, Daniel Pocock wrote: > >> a) the wiki links to different trust organizations, each of them publish >> their own accounting records from time to time. My understanding of the >> delegation[2] is that the audit team should pull in the data from the >> different trust organizations and prepare a single consolidated balance >> sheet and P&L for Debian as a whole. Does that happen? > > AFAIK the team has had trouble getting that data in a suitable form in > recent years. >
It would be sufficient to prepare a balance sheet with a disclaimer at the bottom stating whether any figures may be stale or estimates. It could then be improved in subsequent years. >> b) should some of the audit team's responsibilities be specified in the >> constitution instead of the delegation? There is already some stuff >> about trust organizations and assets in there[3], that section would be >> a good place to include some reference to annual financial statements. > > It would make sense to think about that after the team has managed to > produce a financial statement for the first time. > >> d) several people have made requests for funding on this list recently, >> is there a budget process for evaluating, prioritizing and approving the >> requests? Should they be submitted against a pseudo-package in the BTS >> perhaps? > > https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/DPL/AskingForMoney > https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/DPL/SponsoringGuidelines > https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/DPL/Reimbursement > Thanks, I've created links from the audit team's wiki to those pages.

