Fund Accounting Toolkit

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Save time, empower your teams and effectively upgrade your processes with access to this practical Fund Accounting Toolkit and guide. Address common challenges with best-practice templates, step-by-step work plans and maturity diagnostics for any Fund Accounting related project.

Download the Toolkit and in Three Steps you will be guided from idea to implementation results.

The Toolkit contains the following practical and powerful enablers with new and updated Fund Accounting specific requirements:


STEP 1: Get your bearings

Start with...

  • The latest quick edition of the Fund Accounting Self Assessment book in PDF containing 49 requirements to perform a quickscan, get an overview and share with stakeholders.

Organized in a data driven improvement cycle RDMAICS (Recognize, Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, Control and Sustain), check the…

  • Example pre-filled Self-Assessment Excel Dashboard to get familiar with results generation

Then find your goals...


STEP 2: Set concrete goals, tasks, dates and numbers you can track

Featuring 998 new and updated case-based questions, organized into seven core areas of process design, this Self-Assessment will help you identify areas in which Fund Accounting improvements can be made.

Examples; 10 of the 998 standard requirements:

  1. What are the experience and credentials of the auditor that will be in charge of the work and what are the experience and credentials of the audit organizations staff that will perform the work?

  2. Has your organization disclosed information that enables users of the financial statement to understand the nature and extent of share based payment arrangements that existed during the period?

  3. Does your system have internal financial controls that provide for a separation of duties among the receipt, deposit, and accounting of funds, and the preparation and signing of checks?

  4. Do the funds policies and procedures provide assurance that the accounting and information systems are secure and that the information is recoverable in case of system failure?

  5. Do the funds policies and procedures provide assurance that employee time and attendance records are accurate and that leave time is accounted for and recorded properly?

  6. Do the funds policies and procedures provide assurance that cash and investments are properly safeguarded, accounted for, and deposited into the appropriate accounts?

  7. Does the project have an agreed start date for expenditure and accounting principles agreed for recording, funding, allocating and communicating expenditure to date?

  8. Will it hold up to the scrutiny of an inspection, including efforts to track funds and transactions through forensic investigation or forensic accounting?

  9. Do the funds policies and procedures provide assurance that revenues are billed timely and accurately and are recorded properly in the accounting records?

  10. Will a foundation provide funds for the new accounting software, or for a program that extends service to a previously unmet segment of the population?


Complete the self assessment, on your own or with a team in a workshop setting. Use the workbook together with the self assessment requirements spreadsheet:

  • The workbook is the latest in-depth complete edition of the Fund Accounting book in PDF containing 998 requirements, which criteria correspond to the criteria in...

Your Fund Accounting self-assessment dashboard which gives you your dynamically prioritized projects-ready tool and shows your organization exactly what to do next:

  • The Self-Assessment Excel Dashboard; with the Fund Accounting Self-Assessment and Scorecard you will develop a clear picture of which Fund Accounting areas need attention, which requirements you should focus on and who will be responsible for them:

    • Shows your organization instant insight in areas for improvement: Auto generates reports, radar chart for maturity assessment, insights per process and participant and bespoke, ready to use, RACI Matrix
    • Gives you a professional Dashboard to guide and perform a thorough Fund Accounting Self-Assessment
    • Is secure: Ensures offline data protection of your Self-Assessment results
    • Dynamically prioritized projects-ready RACI Matrix shows your organization exactly what to do next:

 

STEP 3: Implement, Track, follow up and revise strategy

The outcomes of STEP 2, the self assessment, are the inputs for STEP 3; Start and manage Fund Accounting projects with the 62 implementation resources:

  • 62 step-by-step Fund Accounting Project Management Form Templates covering over 1500 Fund Accounting project requirements and success criteria:

Examples; 10 of the check box criteria:

  1. Activity Duration Estimates: How does a Fund Accounting project life cycle differ from a product life cycle?

  2. Initiating Process Group: Are the Fund Accounting project team and stakeholders meeting regularly and using a meeting agenda and taking notes to accurately document what is being covered and what happened in the weekly meetings?

  3. Activity Duration Estimates: How does the job market and current state of the economy affect human resource management?

  4. Cost Management Plan: Are meeting objectives identified for each meeting?

  5. Requirements Management Plan: Is the system software (non-operating system) new to the IT Fund Accounting project team?

  6. Quality Management Plan: Are requirements management tracking tools and procedures in place?

  7. Issue Log: How is this initiative related to other portfolios, programs, or Fund Accounting projects?

  8. Human Resource Management Plan: Have lessons learned been conducted after each Fund Accounting project release?

  9. Source Selection Criteria: In the technical/management area, what criteria do you use to determine the final evaluation ratings?

  10. Procurement Management Plan: Are the appropriate IT resources adequate to meet planned commitments?

 
Step-by-step and complete Fund Accounting Project Management Forms and Templates including check box criteria and templates.

1.0 Initiating Process Group:

  • 1.1 Fund Accounting project Charter
  • 1.2 Stakeholder Register
  • 1.3 Stakeholder Analysis Matrix


2.0 Planning Process Group:

  • 2.1 Fund Accounting project Management Plan
  • 2.2 Scope Management Plan
  • 2.3 Requirements Management Plan
  • 2.4 Requirements Documentation
  • 2.5 Requirements Traceability Matrix
  • 2.6 Fund Accounting project Scope Statement
  • 2.7 Assumption and Constraint Log
  • 2.8 Work Breakdown Structure
  • 2.9 WBS Dictionary
  • 2.10 Schedule Management Plan
  • 2.11 Activity List
  • 2.12 Activity Attributes
  • 2.13 Milestone List
  • 2.14 Network Diagram
  • 2.15 Activity Resource Requirements
  • 2.16 Resource Breakdown Structure
  • 2.17 Activity Duration Estimates
  • 2.18 Duration Estimating Worksheet
  • 2.19 Fund Accounting project Schedule
  • 2.20 Cost Management Plan
  • 2.21 Activity Cost Estimates
  • 2.22 Cost Estimating Worksheet
  • 2.23 Cost Baseline
  • 2.24 Quality Management Plan
  • 2.25 Quality Metrics
  • 2.26 Process Improvement Plan
  • 2.27 Responsibility Assignment Matrix
  • 2.28 Roles and Responsibilities
  • 2.29 Human Resource Management Plan
  • 2.30 Communications Management Plan
  • 2.31 Risk Management Plan
  • 2.32 Risk Register
  • 2.33 Probability and Impact Assessment
  • 2.34 Probability and Impact Matrix
  • 2.35 Risk Data Sheet
  • 2.36 Procurement Management Plan
  • 2.37 Source Selection Criteria
  • 2.38 Stakeholder Management Plan
  • 2.39 Change Management Plan


3.0 Executing Process Group:

  • 3.1 Team Member Status Report
  • 3.2 Change Request
  • 3.3 Change Log
  • 3.4 Decision Log
  • 3.5 Quality Audit
  • 3.6 Team Directory
  • 3.7 Team Operating Agreement
  • 3.8 Team Performance Assessment
  • 3.9 Team Member Performance Assessment
  • 3.10 Issue Log


4.0 Monitoring and Controlling Process Group:

  • 4.1 Fund Accounting project Performance Report
  • 4.2 Variance Analysis
  • 4.3 Earned Value Status
  • 4.4 Risk Audit
  • 4.5 Contractor Status Report
  • 4.6 Formal Acceptance


5.0 Closing Process Group:

  • 5.1 Procurement Audit
  • 5.2 Contract Close-Out
  • 5.3 Fund Accounting project or Phase Close-Out
  • 5.4 Lessons Learned

 

Results

With this Three Step process you will have all the tools you need for any Fund Accounting project with this in-depth Fund Accounting Toolkit.

In using the Toolkit you will be better able to:

  • Diagnose Fund Accounting projects, initiatives, organizations, businesses and processes using accepted diagnostic standards and practices
  • Implement evidence-based best practice strategies aligned with overall goals
  • Integrate recent advances in Fund Accounting and put process design strategies into practice according to best practice guidelines

Defining, designing, creating, and implementing a process to solve a business challenge or meet a business objective is the most valuable role; In EVERY company, organization and department.

Unless you are talking a one-time, single-use project within a business, there should be a process. Whether that process is managed and implemented by humans, AI, or a combination of the two, it needs to be designed by someone with a complex enough perspective to ask the right questions. Someone capable of asking the right questions and step back and say, 'What are we really trying to accomplish here? And is there a different way to look at it?'

This Toolkit empowers people to do just that - whether their title is entrepreneur, manager, consultant, (Vice-)President, CxO etc... - they are the people who rule the future. They are the person who asks the right questions to make Fund Accounting investments work better.

This Fund Accounting All-Inclusive Toolkit enables You to be that person.

 

Includes lifetime updates

Every self assessment comes with Lifetime Updates and Lifetime Free Updated Books. Lifetime Updates is an industry-first feature which allows you to receive verified self assessment updates, ensuring you always have the most accurate information at your fingertips.