Webinar: direct and indirect costs, justifying them to the donor
Webinar · 2 hours · online
A webinar for NGO finance managers who allocate shared costs across projects and justify overheads to donors. We cover allocation methods, the accounting policy and the documents that support the calculation.
In short
Webinar: direct and indirect costs, justifying them to the donor
A two-hour online webinar by MK Audit on direct and indirect costs in grant projects. We look at how donors separate these costs, which allocation methods NGOs use, how to set the method in the accounting policy and how to fund overheads. Places are by pre-registration.
Who it is for
- NGO finance managers
- Accountants who allocate shared costs
- Directors of organisations with several donors
- Grant managers preparing proposal budgets
Format
Online in Zoom, 2 hours, with pre-registration
Programme
- Direct and indirect costs: how donors separate them
- A flat indirect cost rate versus allocation of actual costs
- Methods for allocating shared costs: staff time, floor space, budget share
- How to set the allocation method in the accounting policy
- Documents that support the allocation for the auditor
- Funding overheads when the donor does not cover them
- Participants’ questions
After the training you will be able to
- separate direct and indirect costs under a specific donor’s rules
- choose a method for allocating shared costs and describe it in the accounting policy
- prepare an allocation calculation you can show the auditor
- include overheads in a proposal budget with a justification
How pre-registration works
Leave a request in the form below. When a group is formed, we send the date, the hour-by-hour programme and the terms. Registering does not commit you to anything.
Questions
Is the webinar free?
No, it is a paid programme. We send the terms together with the date once a group is formed.
When will the training take place?
We will announce the date once a group is formed. Everyone registered hears first and gets the hour-by-hour programme.
Can you run the programme just for our organisation?
Yes. We adapt it to your projects and donors and agree the number of hours and the format separately.