Audit Committe presentation
From SI Exco News
During his presentation, Markus pointed out that :
Responsibility of the Audit Committee
- The members of the Audit committee are elected by the GA
- The Audit committee received a mandate from the GA and is therefore independent.
- Based on the GA 2001 decision, the role of the Audit committee is to make internal auditing of SI expenses, supervision, analysis, interpretation, and advice to EXCO 2001-2004, as well as ongoing monitoring of actual-to-budget interim financial statements
Internal Auditing finding
- Under the review of the bookkeeping 2001, the Audit committee found that 10525 CHF are missing from the bookkeeping 2001
- Many accounts of former servas officers are incorrect
- Some expenses from one EXCO 2001-2004 member (CHF 879, 95) could not be found.
- The Audit committee has rejected officially the external audit report showing many important errors
- The credibility of the certified external auditor has been put into question
- The financial statement 2001 is incorrect
- The financial statement 2002 is incorrect
- The financial statement 2003 was not received
- Travel Funding Process for the GA – the Application rules not respected by EXCO 2001-2004
Difficulties
- The internal audit of the accounts 2001 were blocked by EXCO 2001-2004
- The internal audit of the accounts 2002 were blocked by EXCO 2001-2004
- Gin refused to collaborate with the Audit committee
- Our legitimate questions about the accounts were not answered by Gin, the Treasurer
- Our 12 official complaints to the Appeals committee have not been replied – these complaints are related to mainly on unclear financial accounts, breach of the statutes of Servas International, breach of the GA decisions. The Appeals committee has refused to address these complaints made against EXCO 2001-2004
- EXCO 2001-2004 has blocked the Audit committee of any funding for our office expenses
The Audit committee has proposed to four workshops : 1. Complete review of the bookkeeping with Gin, the SI Treasurer [refused by EXCO 2001-2004] 2. Review of the financial guidelines distributed in the last 6 months to all NGs [accepted but the result could not be presented for a vote] 3. Presentation of several stamp Fee Model [blocked by Roger Martin during his own workshop] 4. A training session on bookkeeping, especially for the SI Treasurer and all NSs. [blocked by EXCO 2001-2004]
Markus finished his presentation with the following sentence :
The Road to Trust and Solidarity passes by Teaming, Open Dialogue, Clear Accounts and Transparency.
