A lack of training 'is causing chaos'

By Mathew Little, Third Sector, 17 September 2008

Charitable donations are being wasted or stolen because small charities don't have basic accountancy skills, according to a voluntary sector financial adviser.

Tom Fitch, chief executive of Cash, which provides accountancy training to small voluntary organisations, claimed that up to 35,000 charities were in "financial chaos". Fitch was responding to last week's news that the Charity Commission blamed poor accounting for most charity malpractice. He said the main reason for bad accounting...