Finance Tips

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• If your college does not have a web-based system for your accounts please use this template for your accounts, copy the section inside the black outline and paste it into the box of the relevant answer on your application form. You can also upload it as a google spreadsheet and share the 'anyone on the internet can view' version and put the link into your portfolio if virtual and if not into your appendix.

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• Please make sure your accounts have a clear opening and closing balance.

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• Remember, your judges may not be familiar with your account keeping methods so please make everything as clear as possible and avoid the use of abbreviated terms.

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• You may also use this question to detail anything you think the judges may not understand.

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• Keep everything as clear and as simple as possible and easy for the adjudicators to have a clear picture of how you operated. Did you operate your own bank account, or were your payment processed by your societes officer when you handed in receipts, did you use a ticket selling platfom of a fundraising page such as i-donate, you can give links or a screen grab of such pages in your portfolio/appendix.
   

• The finance section is not just about money you can include information on non-financial gains such as sponsored hoodies, a free venue etc..
   

• You can include efforts that you made to get sponsorship such as a sample email to potential sponsors event if they were not successful this time.