http://wiki.cssbham.com/ 2026-07-22T23:25:00+00:00 http://wiki.cssbham.com/ http://wiki.cssbham.com/_media/logo.png text/html 2026-05-14T16:28:31+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://wiki.cssbham.com/finances:budgets?rev=1778776111&do=diff Budgets Budgets (Budget Notification Forms) are required by the Guild for all events or expenditure over £1,000, certain event types, and occasionally for other situations such as merch sales. You can check back in the Google Drive to see what historically has required a budget, but if you're not sure best bet is to ask the Guild in plenty of time. text/html 2026-05-13T08:21:32+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://wiki.cssbham.com/finances:expenses?rev=1778660492&do=diff Expenses Expenses are anything that we buy or money we spend as or on behalf of the society. For example, buying refreshments from costco, or the server hosting fees for tex-drug-den. There are 4 ways we process expenses: * Personal Expense * External Payment text/html 2026-05-13T09:14:45+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://wiki.cssbham.com/finances:grants?rev=1778663685&do=diff Grants The Guild has 3 rounds of grant: * Semester 1, applications typically open around August with outcomes back in September * Semester 2, applications typically open around November / December with outcomes back in January. * Semester 3, applications typically open around March with outcomes back in April. text/html 2026-05-13T08:36:43+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://wiki.cssbham.com/finances:income?rev=1778661403&do=diff Income Income is fairly self explanatory - it's any money that's coming into the society. Most of the semantics of this are handled by the Guild and the website, but there's a few points that may be useful listed below. It's also worth remembering that any sales through the guild website incur a text/html 2026-05-25T13:54:38+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://wiki.cssbham.com/finances:sponsorship?rev=1779717278&do=diff Sponsorship Reaching Out When looking for sponsorships, it is important to consider what particular sectors may be interested in sponsorship. Local companies are a good first step as sponsor events are easier for them to attend, which may make it more attractive for them to sponsor us. It is also important to consider companies that are not primarily involved in Software Engineering etc. but have software departments, such as engineering and automotive companies. Some sponsors will try to take… text/html 2026-05-13T17:07:08+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://wiki.cssbham.com/finances:start?rev=1778692028&do=diff Finances CSS tracks financial transactions via a spreadsheet held in the Google Drive. This is done as the statements we get sent by the Guild are (approximately, as of 13/05/2026) around 2 weeks behind reality, that is to say if a membership is purchased on the website on a given day, it may not appear on the statement until 2 weeks later, which can make financial planning tricky. Because these purchased show up on the purchase reports immediately, we can mitigate this by managing and keeping … text/html 2026-05-13T10:26:52+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://wiki.cssbham.com/finances:vat?rev=1778668012&do=diff VAT General Principles The government has a fairly good help page on VAT which I'd strongly suggest reading before this guide. VAT is a tax which is added on to certain categories of items - you don't need to know these categories, just that some have it and others don't. If you're not sure if something you're buying has VAT on it then you need to check with the supplier. Even if an item would normally have VAT on it, depending on the supplier it may not. (i.e. whether or not the supplier is…