Financial Process

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Process Design Introduction

  1. What? This process describes how all funds are generated, handled, accounted, documented, and communicated, and RACI Cubed.
  2. Why? To streamline operations via procedural clarity for members of Factor e Farm team and remote collaborators. What efforts does it save? How does the process promote transparent operation, openness, and sound governance?
  3. Who? - Who is responsible/accountable/consulted/informed about the process? Use RACI Cubed.
  4. When? - When is this process executed (day/time, frequency
  5. Time Requirements - when executed effectively, how long should this process take per day/week/month?
  6. Links - What are all the relevant links to the working substance, documentation database, source, list, account information, etc. that allows somebody to execute the process? Note: make special provisions for private database
  7. Execution - Step by step procedure for executing process
  8. Documentation - Produce documentation by which anyone in the world can observe the results, see if the process is being executed, and learn how to execute the process itself if needed?

Specifications

  • Radical Transparency
  • ongoing balance sheet updated 24 hours. Visible to Core Team. Shareable with outsiders on demand. Receipts in cabinet according to policy.
  • Monthly income and expenses. Visible to world.
  • True Fan Revenue - updated every month in a clearly visible graph
  • 10 Month Budget is visible. Budget Review Committee meets every 3 months.
  • Annual Reports Visible
  • Budget Rationale - $2.1M+Org Infrastructure
  • Prototyping Cost - Total prototyping money spent vs. number prototypes built. Goal: if the cost falls, that means we are succeeding at collaborative.mission-aligned development.
  • Core Project Efficiency (total expenditures vs. prototypes built)
  • Receipts saving policy
  • Document Retention Policy clear
  • Revenue generated from Product Sales.

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Financial Controls Strategy

Financial controls include a broad range of issues related to the effective procurement and allocation of resources:

  • fraud, property theft, embezzlement, contractual violations
  • legal battles
  • performance management of workers for effective generation of value
  • audit processes
  • structural checks and balances within processes
  • efficient organizational processes and structures
  • in-kind, barter, mentorship, collaborative, and other contributions that displace need for money
  • low cost overhead and import substitution

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