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Wednesday, March 12, 2008

All About Admin

This week is primarily dedicated to doing all the stuff I have neglected to do over the last few months and get caught up:

  1. Organizing and filing the last of the 2007 financials so I'm (almost) ready for our audit.
  2. Figuring out what can be destroyed based on our retention policies.
  3. Finding our retention policies!
  4. Entering our 2008 budget into QuickBooks because NOW I have to start generating variance reports for '08.
  5. Bi-monthly cost allocations so we can release those monies from restrictions.
If I was not also doing program stuff (which I do enjoy) I think would be more on top of this, but maybe not. Some of this is grunt work that needs to get done but is rather boring.

What administrative tasks tend to get put on the back burner at your organization?
Have you found any good tips / tricks / tools to help?

Posted by CAN at 4:53 PM

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