Guys,
I hope you are good, I am writing this in great concern of what is
happening with the chapter and finances. We are a very young chapter and we
need not be where we are at this point. When we elected the board, we
agreed to have an audit committee that will be there to keep check on the
Having an Audit Committee is a good idea, however my question is, What are
its mandates? I mean like yes I want us to have one, but what happens when
they make recommendations incases of malpractice in the board? I say this
because technically all the members have been some sort of auditors and
Oscar,
I think we defined the mandate of this committee when we were doing the
elections of the board. It is important to have procedures to solving
issues and one of the steps to handling this is getting the committee
together.
You however cannot form a committee based on one issue and I
+1 to what Oscar said.
If the Board, which has the ultimate authority, has failed to get the Treasurer
to submit all the required financial documents, what makes you think that the
Audit Committee will? I am tired of having ineffective discussions with people
who don't want to cooperate.
Abbas,
As you put it, the board cannot vet itself. That is why we need another
official organ to vet and suggest disciplinary action on members of the
board.
At this point, we know the situation has elevated to a serious point and we
need to have a formal process of doing things. That is simply
Hi All,
I'd suggest that we consider how we answer or respond to fellow chapter
members. It's really scary how
some of us get jerked off at anytime we try to respond (no one in
particular) or give our thoughts and suggestion.
And also I don't think it's wise to respond with a lot of personal
Hi,
Great idea David,
I will be available for this but first the mandate and timeline has to be
set.
Thanks
Isaac K. Kosgei.
Bachelor of Agribusiness Management
Egerton University,
Njoro Kenya.
(+254727553981)
www.linkedin.com/in/kipsizoo
Skype/Twitter: Kipsizoo
Those Cultures that allow their
Guys,
I think we discussed the mandate during the board elections, it is mainly
to ensure the integrity of the board is not compromised.
Isaac, thanks for volunteering, lets wait for more volunteers and the
people can select from the willing volunteers.
Being an email list, let us allow enough
hi,
excuse that i write this email, while not beeing directly concerned,
but maybe there are some similarities to other countries, like in this
case switzerland.
the bylaws state that the auditors have access to the financial books
at any time. if the bylaws are violated, the board, the members
