Accounting 101 - Best Practice & Budgeting Workshops

Do you need help with managing your brigade's accounts? These are the workshops for you!

Accounting 101 - Best Practice Workshop

This training has been designed to provide a beginner level introduction to accounting and gives fantastic insights that will help you meet your brigade’s accounting obligations to FENZ and Charities Services.

The training will also provide fantastic tips, tricks and tools to put your brigade into a stronger financial position.

Topics Covered:

Accounting overview - why do we need / use accounting?
Accounting basics - explains how accounting works
Applying accounting - explains how to produce and read your brigade’s financial reports using accounting
Budgeting - useful for planning events, and for your upcoming brigade AGM

Also, if you are interested in getting a free Xero subscription set up for your brigade to help with accounting, submitting your annual return to Charities Services, and your FENZ brigade grant report, please contact Jane Davie (jane@ufba.org.nz) and she will start this process for you!

2026 Workshop Date

Each session starts at 6.30pm and runs for approximately 1 hour.

To register, email ufba@nz.gt.com giving your name, brigade, phone number, and date of the workshop you want to attend.

Workshop 1 Tuesday 24 March

Budgeting Workshop

This training has been designed to provide a beginner level introduction to budgeting and gives fantastic insights that will help you and your Brigade plan and manage finances.

The training will also provide helpful tips, tricks and tools to put your brigade into a stronger financial position.

Topics covered:

Accounting concepts recap (going through the fundamentals of accounting and how to interpret reports)
Budgeting exercise (to teach you how to budget and why this is important)
Advanced budgeting (understanding how budgeting can impact the financial health of your brigade and how to make decisions using this information)

If you are interested in getting a free Xero subscription for your brigade to help with accounting, submitting your brigade grant report to FENZ, and annual return to Charities Services, contact Jane Davie (jane@ufba.org.nz) and she will start this process for you!