The profit and loss figures Sharon was giving me didn’t meet the budget the board had agreed and our draft end-of-year accounts showed us to be in the red. Before I joined, the charity had been in the hands of the trusted finance manager, Sharon. I employed a highly experienced finance manager who knew what she was doing and spent hours and hours with her – redesigning our system. She had been in post for years and I was told “if it hadn’t been for Sharon the charity would have gone under”. Confessions of a charity professional is the Guardian Voluntary Sector Network’s series where charity workers tell it how it is.

Source: The Guardian July 26, 2016 09:00 UTC