News and Upcoming Events

News

ANGOA is politically non-partisan. ANGOA is hosting discussions with all political party spokespeople for the sector. Speeches they make to the ANGOA Roundtable are published on this page as they become available.

16 May 2012		Audit and Assurance Requirements for Not for Profit Organisations
15 May 2012		The Future of the NZ Charities Commission - update on progress of the Crown Entities Bill
15 May 2012		Government mistakes undermine community charities
14 May 2012		Delivering Real Results to New Zealanders
14 May 2012		Research Forum Presentations from 24 April in Christchurch
07 May 2012		Charities Commission: Letters from Bob Wyatt and Lindsay Driscoll to NZ Government Ministers
24 April 2012		Proposed tax change will restrict the Fringe Benefit Tax exemption for charities
23 April 2012		Notes from Charities panel presentation, 17 April 2012
11 April 2012		Report confirms poverty in the Waikato
02 April 2012		UNANZ Seminar on Rio+20 Report
20 March 2012		Invitation to participate in Special Forums: The Future of Charities in New Zealand
14 March 2012		Developing a Victims Code: Update
13 March 2012		Rethinking Local Government - International trends and lessons from Auckland
09 March 2012		Diana Shand presentation at the Wellington Roundtable
03 March 2012		An Enabling Environment for Civil Society
16 February 2012		Denise Roche’s maiden speech
13 February 2012		Draft for ANGOA's Submission to the Government Administration Select Committee
30 January 2012		Joan Cook Memorial Waitangi Day Essay 2012: Reflections on the state of the Pakeha nation
20 January 2012		New page — Rio+20 Documents, Resources and Links
20 January 2012		Proposed new Accounting Standards Framework for Non-profit Organisations

Proposed new Accounting Standards Framework for Non-profit Organisations

The External Reporting Board (XRB, formerly the Accounting Standards Review Board; ASRB) in 2011 released a Position Paper and two Consultation Papers outlining proposals for a new Accounting Standards Framework for for-profit and for public benefit entities. The related Multi-Standards Position Paper is available here.

XRB organised a series of seminars on the discussion papers. If you were unable to attend, the PowerPoint slides that were used on the day as well as three podcasts summarising the same material that was covered in the seminars can be found on the XRB website by clicking here. Feel free to share these with your colleagues.

Submissions on the Consultation Papers closed 16 December 2011, and the XRB is analysing those. The draft framework is expected to be available from XRB in March or April of 2012, and further consultations will begin then.

See ANGOA’s submission and the attached document

In keeping with the ethos of public accountability for donated funds and for the receipt of tax concessions it is expected the final reporting framework will be compulsory for registered charities, but optional for incorporated societies, unincorporated societies, and Trusts that are not registered charities

ANGOA has made a funded agreement with Ministry of Economic Development

As part of this process ANGOA will be organising consultation sessions on a new Simple Format Reporting framework for Tier 3 Organisations with annual expenditure under $40,000. Consultations will also be run by the XRB and the Charities Commission.

ANGOA will be seeking host organisations in Auckland, Hamilton, Gisborne, Wellington and Dunedin to assist with these – if you are interested please contact the ANGOA coordinator

Financial Reporting Stocktake: An Assessment of Accountability through Charities’ Filing on New Zealand’s Charities Register.
Why do we need to do this?

Upcoming Events

24 May 2012		Auckland Research Forum
14 June 2012		Wellington Roundtable
11 July 2012		Dunedin Research Forum
12 July 2012		Wellington Roundtable
19 July 2012		Auckland Research Forum
09 August 2012		Wellington Roundtable
05 September 2012		Dunedin Research Forum
13 September 2012		Wellington Roundtable
25 September 2012		Christchurch Research Forum
11 October 2012		Wellington Roundtable
18 October 2012		Auckland Research Forum
08 November 2012		Wellington Roundtable (AGM)
06 December 2012		Wellington Roundtable (please note change of date!)

Wellington Research Forum:
Discussions have begun with potential organising and hosting partners. For further information, contact ANGOA Coordinator
Dave Henderson dave.henderson@angoa.org.nz

"Good Intentions"

An Assessment of the Statement of Government Intentions for an Improved Community-Government Relationship. ANGOA's 2009/10 examination of the state of the relationship between the sector and government, with 15 recommendations.

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