Re: [Wikimedia Kenya] URGENT: Appointment of an Interim Audit Committee

2012-07-25 Thread rupert THURNER
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 p

Re: [Wikimedia Kenya] URGENT: Appointment of an Interim Audit Committee

2012-07-25 Thread David Mugo
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 t

Re: [Wikimedia Kenya] URGENT: Appointment of an Interim Audit Committee

2012-07-25 Thread Kosgei Isaac
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 pe

Re: [Wikimedia Kenya] URGENT: Appointment of an Interim Audit Committee

2012-07-25 Thread cliff argwings
PS -- For the record, I never volunteered to be part of the Audit > Committee. > > > -- > From: oslim...@gmail.com > Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2012 11:23:05 +0300 > To: wikimediake@lists.wikimedia.org > Subject: Re: [Wikimedia Kenya] URGENT: Appointment of

Re: [Wikimedia Kenya] URGENT: Appointment of an Interim Audit Committee

2012-07-25 Thread David Mugo
to be part of the Audit > Committee. > > > -- > From: oslim...@gmail.com > Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2012 11:23:05 +0300 > To: wikimediake@lists.wikimedia.org > Subject: Re: [Wikimedia Kenya] URGENT: Appointment of an Interim Audit > Committee > > >

Re: [Wikimedia Kenya] URGENT: Appointment of an Interim Audit Committee

2012-07-25 Thread Abbas Mahmood
Abbas. PS -- For the record, I never volunteered to be part of the Audit Committee. From: oslim...@gmail.com Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2012 11:23:05 +0300 To: wikimediake@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikimedia Kenya] URGENT: Appointment of an Interim Audit Committee Having an Audit Committee is a

Re: [Wikimedia Kenya] URGENT: Appointment of an Interim Audit Committee

2012-07-25 Thread David Mugo
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 strongl

Re: [Wikimedia Kenya] URGENT: Appointment of an Interim Audit Committee

2012-07-25 Thread Limoke Oscar
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 ha

Re: [Wikimedia Kenya] URGENT: Appointment of an Interim Audit Committee

2012-07-25 Thread Branton Obwari
Hi , matters of integrity ,n accountability are bound to rise ,in this kind of organisation i personally thought the issue we just heard on the mailing list would have been avoided if there was an audit unit as suggested earlier . i am available to volunteer on that capacity together with othe