HI I am not a book-keeper, but do have a professional accountancy qualification (CIMA) although I am not, at present, a member as I chose not to pay the subscription as I am now a teacher.
My son's parent council asked me to look over their accounts. I put them into a Receipts and Payments account and Income and Expenditure Account, but now the treasurer is wondering whether I can 'sign them off'. Does anyone have any experience of this?
I'm not sure if I can because my membership of CIMA has lapsed.
I think a lot of it depends on the amount of funds they have and who the funders are. I used to be a community development worker in a past life, and with no official bookkeeping/accounting training we were able to sign off the accounts for most of our community goups.
The views expressed in this post are my own personal (HRA protected) views, and are not representative of any organisation I have any involvement with.
