13. 4.3.19. Financial Management Certification, hereby referred to as FMC)
4.3.19.1. Purpose: to ensure AIESEC US financial sustainability and upkeep by tracking
the financial activities of our entity
4.3.19.2. Before submitting reimbursement request, all members of AIESEC US must
complete the FMC
4.3.19.3. The FMC status will only last until the last day of the fiscal quarter, at the start
of the new quarter members must then resubmit the FMC with updated information
4.3.19.4. The Finance Subcommittee may remove any individual on the FMC pool at any
point with a unanimous vote of all the members of the Finance Subcommittee
4.3.19.4.1. Removed members will not be allowed to resubmit a FMC until the start
of the next fiscal quarter
18. Question 1:
What coding would you use to reimburse
someone from your entity for conference
travel to a National Conference?
6304-02 Conference Travel National
6140 Travel and Meals
6251 Strategic Fund
19. Question 2:
What coding would you use to reimburse
someone from your entity for Marketing
Materials?
6251-04 Strategic Fund COMM
62000-02 OGX Marketing
6162 LC Merchandise
6128 Printing
20. Question 3:
Who is your entity's account responsible?
(Required for Reimbursements)
Local Committee President
VP Finance
VP Talent Management
MCVP Finance
21. Are you allowed to submit
reimbursement requests 2
months after the day of
purchase?
61. CHALLENGING
ENVIRONMENT (Event
Planning, potentially
remove, evaluate)
TRAINING
(Send to conferences,
summits and work
directly with EB, foster
pipeline)
INDUCTION
(Get trainers in your LC!
If your LC doesn’t
improve, it will never
grow)
NATIONAL
INVOLVEMENT
(Conferences, Training,
making the LC relevant)
Skill
Will
For our Member
62. BRING IN AN AIESEC
COACH (Pragmatic,
Skilled)
BRING IN A TRAINER
REGARDING EITHER
AIESEC OR A SKILL
THAT YOUR LC LACKS
INVEST IN A COACH
TO BUILD A
DEVELOPMENT
TIMELINE
INTERNATIONAL
PARTNERSHIPS AND
NATIONAL PROJECT
SPEAR HEADING LC
Skill
Will
For our LC
Goal: is to start the conversation. Don’t go over what it means
Finance is a function in AIESEC that had served a powerful purpose but at the same time had no complete ownership over that quadrant
In AIESEC. Finance is a Bottleneck. To the people, it is a bottleneck because
“Oh we don’t have money”
“I cant give you that”
Etc.
But it is only because we are BASIC
Story Time (Overcoming a challenge with Finance)
Samson: Deciding to become MCVP Finance was not a easy decision. Coming from a finance background, I wanted to break away from this constant cycle. AIESEC offered a chance, I was able to move away from the assumption that as Asian my place was to be good at math and become either a doctor or accountant. That is why when Dom offered to accept me as the VP Finance, I was a little taken away. I knew of the finance function in AIESEC and I know that historically I thought it was “basic.” I thought that at this moment, what do I care most about?
I knew I cared about success, efficiency, and education/training. I knew that I applied for this job as my way of finally giving back to the plenary. Thus, I finally understood that Dom chose someone, not for their experience, but for their passion to change.
I know that finance is meant to be more than just an accountant, I know that finance education in AIESEC needs change.
I know that in order for our organization to grow, we must not be the bottlenecks that it thinks we are. That is why for this RoKS, I made it an effort to drive down, not only new education, but strategies. Finance members needs to be educated on what is efficient, what is working and what is cool.
My goal is to take everything I know now and bring it down and then challenge myself and the organization to find new education, new materials and new mindsets in the year to completely
Upgrade our function.
We need to solve the issues that hurts our organization the most.
For that, we need to rise. Which is why I challenge you guys to challenge your current LC’s reality. If you are a VP, start taking up the responsibility of managing the organization. (Make sure that you identify the issue before someone brings it to you) If you are a member, make sure you keep your function aligned, report to the VP but at the same time, make sure the LC gets the information. Diagnose the issues and make a commitment to solve it.
“There is a reason why doctors are respected.”
I don’t believe in constantly newsletters. They are hard to read and they are frustrating since you don’t know you have them until you get a sludge of emails in your inbox.
I opened this as a platform for you to stay updated and at the same time know exactly when I am about to release informaiton.
This platform is a one way communication for:
Notification
Deadlines
Reminders
With this I want to ensure that you are being completely updated with the most relevant information AIESEC US has to offer. Members, I will be sending out a fun emails and so make sure to write your name down
31,671 bankruptcy's in 2014
If we go bankrupt, we risk losing 2,400 experineces
We lose the connection to over 1,300 members
We lose 40 local entities
And we lose the 1platform for our cities and towns to connect with the world’s largest student organization
To change all this requires a group effort and a push by all of us. Id recommend for you guys to really take down this information ;)
First one
Last 3 all works
First two
No
Break
You have returned! And perfect time to introduce our next topic
It’s a joke since they just returned
How many of you here know what ROI is? Can you explain?
Can you do it locally?
ROI is a concept that overcomplicates the simplest idea
Ask the audience for a dollar. “Does someone here have a dollar?” How did they feel
When we invest in members or materials, it is a trade. As finance you must see it as “I will get something in return” This for That.
That means it is in your place to take something back
Key question to ask yourself “What should I get in return that I can track”
Give me your plan for making sure these investments have a return
What does this mean?
Ask them to list out.
The ideal is that they identify that each member can go.
If your LC has enough money $100 reimbursement is more than enough to help out your members. For each exchange you make at least $600 which mean you are still making $500. Would you rather have $500 or no money at all
Now talk about the return. The return must be trackable.
20 – average drop in number of exchanges predicted.
12000 is the “lost” due to the adjustment
20 is the exchange that we would have if we made this in to a strategy.
10000 is the revenue we would have had
Money makes money
Money makes money
What is the difference between Focus vs. Reality
Feedback – Fact based only, refer to only events in the past
Judgment – Emotion based, try to avoid.
No judgment
You must take it back. You are the change maker of the organization. You have the ability to see above the daily operations and you must constantly review what your LC needs and take action to help.
I asked iin the beginning…
There is a difference between DOING finance and WORKING finance. You can do finance right now, you can sit there and do reimbursements and think that you can call yourself a finance person, OR you can take a stand to WORK finance for your LC and identify what it needs, predict the issues, manage the mess and ensure that your LC do not allow mediocrity . At the end, it is powerful.