About AccountAid India

AccountAid India is a private consulting organisation, which was set up 1992. It works with Agencies and NGOs on accounting and related issues. These issues include accounting structure, compliance with FCRA, Income Tax, Societies Act, budgeting, donor reporting. AccountAid India works only through Agencies and does not enter into client-relationships with implementing NGOs.

Workshops

AccountAid™ persons have participated as key resource persons in workshops organised by various agencies for their NGO partners or for their own program team. These include Actionaid, CAPART, CARE, CRS, CRY, Diakonia, EZE, Ford Foundation, Oxfam America, Oxfam India Trust, Swissaid as also various network groups. AccountAid conducts these workshops mainly in collaboration with the concerned Agencies. AccountAid India has also contributed as a member of the Task Force set up by the Planning Commission on Laws affecting Voluntary Sector.

In 1999, AccountAid designed and started conducting specialised Grant Management workshops. These workshops, targeted at program and accounts people working in Grant-making Agencies, have proved quite popular.

Reference Material

AccountAid develops its own training material based on needs felt during the field visit to the NGOs and provides training related to basic accounting, FCRA, Income Tax, other legal requirement for NGOs, project monitoring etc. It brings out 'AccountAble,' a monthly circular in colour, which is circulated to about 2700 persons, including Chartered Accountants. AccountAble is now also available through e-mail, on a complimentary basis. It also brings out 'AccountAble _Asia,' a quarterly circular in colour, which is circulated to about 800 persons in South Asian countries. Others sometimes use our training material during workshops (such as Bombay Chartered Accountants Society) or for development of other material (such as Accounting Manual for NGOs by Sida).

Some of the reference material, including earlier issues of AccountAble and FCRA forms, are available on our web site at http://www.accountaid.net. The web-site also provides an e-mail link for answering NGO questions in confidence and on a complimentary basis.

Field-based Accounting Advice

AccountAid also field-based provides training and advice to NGOs in accounting and financial management systems. This is done through periodic field visits. The objective of such support is capacity building rather than out-sourcing. These services are normally arranged through the concerned grant-making agencies.

Staff

AccountAid staff includes persons with diverse backgrounds such as education, cost accounting and rural banking. It also draws on the experience of professional accountants on a regular basis, who also visit the field.

You can reach us (Monday-Friday; 10:00 - 5:00) at:

AccountAid India
55-B, Pocket C
Siddharth Extension
New Delhi – 110 014
Phones: +91-11-2634 3128
Ph./Fax: +91-11-2634 6041

E-mail: accountaid@vsnl.com; accountaid@gmail.com

Web site: www.accountaid.net