Assessing Your Organization’s Capacity to Manage Finances (The Manager)

Assessing Your Organization’s Capacity to Manage Finances (The Manager)

This issue of The Manager offers financial and program managers (from headquarters to the service delivery level) solid reasons to assess their financial management systems and a method for performing this assessment. It introduces FINMAT, the Financial Management Assessment Tool, a step-by-step process and instrument for rapidly assessing budgeting, accounting, purchasing, and other financial systems. It describes how managers can use their assessment results to develop detailed action plans that can be incorporated into their organization’s annual operational plans.