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James Nadal (4)
10 September 2025

Top 10 charity accounting mistakes – and how to avoid them

Charity accounting is complex. Many charities - particularly smaller ones - still get the basics wrong.

Between evolving regulations, unique governance structures and the quirks of SORP, even experienced accountancy professionals can stumble.

At TaxCalc, we’ve reviewed hundreds of charity accounts and seen the same mistakes crop up time and again.

Many of these issues stem from charities preparing accounts manually in Word or Excel, where errors are easy to make and hard to catch. Here’s a rundown of the most common pitfalls - and how you can avoid them.

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Martin Davey (8)
21 January 2020

Anti-money laundering sneaks itself on hectic January tax season

For a lot of accountants, January is not the best time to think of anything else other than tax.  As you tuck in to SA return after SA return you may or may not have noticed that following a consultation back in June 2019 the money laundering and terrorist financing (amendment) regulations 2019 (MLRs) came into force on 10 January 2020, updating existing regulations.

Here is a brief summary of some of the key changes within the 2019 regulations.

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