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This course, "Train the Trainer: Responsibility for Financial Reports," equips participants with essential knowledge regarding annual financial reports, including income and expenditure statements, balance sheets, and auditor's reports. It emphasizes members' access to financial records and outlines the limits on their rights to information while addressing Whistleblower protections. With specific Queensland requirements for information requests, this course ensures members understand their rights and responsibilities regarding financial transparency within their organizations.
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Responsibility for Financial Reports: Ignorance not a Defence
Requests for information Section 556 Member may apply for prescribed information • A member of an organisation may apply to the organisation for information that it must, under a regulation, give its members. This includes: • Details of donations or grants given to or by the organisation • Remuneration paid to an officer of the organisation • Profit or loss on sale or revalue of an asset • Loans by or to the organisation • Non-public investments • Contingent liabilities
Requests for information • The registrar may make an application for a member, in which case the registrar must then give the information to the member. • The information must be given within 28 days (or 6 weeks if certain criteria are met) and be given in a prescribed way. • The Registrar also has powers to direct an officer of an organisation to give the Registrar information about the organisations funds, accounts or accounting records (see section 557).