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It’s that time of year again (at least for those of us with a 31 March year-end). The familiar cycle of producing the annual report and working closely with auditors or independent examiners will – hopefully – be well advanced for most charities.
The relationship with the auditors is one of the most important ones that we have as a charity finance community, yet we all too often see it in negative or even adversarial terms. I wonder how many of us inadvertently sustain and amplify the narrative that somehow the engagement with the auditors is a disagreeable piece of bureaucracy.