05 October 2010

training courses for charity trustees

Our 2010-2011 programme comprises 10 sessions including a charity law update, understanding charity accounts, what every trustee should know, good governance in your charity.

20 October 2010

Accounting and Legal updates for charities: 2010 programme

23 June 2010

Emergency Budget June 2010 - Charities

The budget again included little specific detail of changes targeted at charities but did include some promising news on the substantial donor legislation. The main points of potential interest are outlined below but by far the biggest and most costly change for many charities will be the increase in the rate of VAT.

Charity Finance Audit Survey - December 2009

haysmacintyre is pleased to announce that its clients have again responded positively to the survey and the Firm has retained the best “Overall Service Award” for the third year running.

iXBRL accounts and other electronic filing

From April 2011, HMRC is making it compulsory for organisations to file company accounts, tax returns and computations in an electronic format called iXBRL – inline eXtensible Business Reporting Language.

not for profit budget summary 2010

please click on 'download document' below to read our not for profit budget summary 2010

fit and proper persons

The 2010 Finance Act introduced changes to the definitions of a charity and CASC as well as strengthening the non chariable expenditure rules for payments to overseas bodies with effect from 8 April 2010.