History: Finance Team

The Finance Team handles everything to do with accounting, and managing the assets of the Tiki Software Community Association (Ex.: domain names)

Works in close collaboration with the Fundraising.

• Fundraising: raising money
• Finance/Administration: making sure money is well managed

Urgent

• Review US gov procedures with respect to Affiliates (Nelson)
  • "W-8BEN: Certificate of Foreign Status of Beneficial Owner for United States Tax Withholding"
    • form snapshot is here
• We received affiliate commission from Hostmonster on 2013-02-19 but we didn't yet receive any payment from Bluehost.

Tasks (do and cross out)

• Re-imburse Marc for 2012-10-25 purchase of SSL and domain names C$396.22
  • Remove Marc as the paying contact for this (pay directly with Tiki.org account)
• Re-imburse Marc for 2013-05-16 purchase of Easy Dns technologies C$41.95
  • Remove Marc as the paying contact for this (pay directly with Tiki.org account)
• Transfer tikiwiki.org to the Association, and change easydns payment

Ongoing responsibilities

• Annual reporting to community (Nelson)
• Pay yearly incorporation fees and fill out paperwork (Nelson)
• Oversee expenditures
  • Server costs (renew annually in coordination with changi)
  • Domain names
  • SSL certificates
  • EasyDNS
• PayPal account management (Nelson)
• Bank account management (Nelson)
• Manage the assets of the association
  • Phone numbers
  • Domain names
  • Trademarks

Projects

• Use Tiki Accounting for Dogfood use for the Tiki Software Community Association, and get Jörn Ott involved

Chart of accounts

• Assets
  • PayPal
  • HSBC
• Expenses
  • Hosting
  • General
• Revenue
  • Affiliates
  • Donations
  • Sponsorships
• etc.

Who

Related links

• Priorities for TSCA funds
• http://producingoss.com/en/money.html