Quote Originally Posted by Deeranged View Post
When I first joined the DFCSS (as it was then) board I sat in my first meeting in the Dens Park boardroom where the DFCSS Treasurer asked one of the then DSA head bummers to account for costs and expenditure at a PoTY function that they'd arranged. Seemingly this was the third or fourth attempt to get someone that had been involved in organising the event to appear at any meeting to account in any way for this.

The 'organiser' proceeded to say this that and the next thing with 'that cost around....... we sold X tickets and took in something like' etc. He then produced an amount of cash from his pockets, notes and bags of coins in absolutely no order, and presented it as the takings from the event - not a single receipt or invoice was presented. When asked how much was spent and came in and how much money there was in total he just said 'I have no idea'. I was totally gobsmacked by all of this and here's the best bit - the man in question was seemingly a successful local businessman.

The estimate was that there was a significant shortfall to which the response was simply 'we had guests, paid their expenses and gave out gifts on the night'. The word 'unbelievable' barely does it justice.

ETA - to this day I believe the main driver for DSA exiting DFCSS was that they were being found out as less than competent to properly organise and account for a pi55 up in a brewery (PoTY dnner is no better than that) and being asked to provide evidence of income and expenditure didn't fit their ethos.
Good account of the first meeting you attended, Deeranged. Does not sound business like and one would hope that the accounting process has improved. Dee4life accounts are quite straightforward, surely DSA accounts have improved? Any comments from DSA office bearers?