Hire an accountant

[yorikvanhavre]

Starting this issue to gather everything needed and try to estimate budgets:

Estimated time commitment

• XXX hours per month
• XXX additional hours per quarter
• XXX additional hours per year

Main tasks

• Everything happens internally in English, Belgian reports need to be made in French or Dutch (models provided)
• Working with both EUR and USD
• Monthly gather, verify, relate and organize and publish payments received and done on several platforms:
  • BNP bank account (CSV available monthly)
  • PayPal account (CSV available monthly)
  • OpenCollective account
  • Stripe
  • The FPA issues
• Monthly publish a report on the FPA GitHub account
• Regularly gather with FPA admins via video conference for syncing and checking
• Quarterly produce a report of all VAT operations, following model provided by the FPA
• Yearly produce an assets report, following Belgian model provided by the FPA
• Yearly produce a balance report, following Belgian model provided by the FPA
• Yearly help produce a financial report and graphics for the FPA yearly report
• Yearly help produce a budget for the next year
• Ensure all deadlines are met

Additional tasks, in case of Belgian accountant

• Quarterly fill the VAT returns form (needs Belgian ID + registered accountant)
• Yearly fill the tax returns (needs Belgian ID + registered accountant)
• Yearly fill the clients list (needs Belgian ID + registered accountant)
• Yearly deliver the balance report to the Greffe (needs Belgian ID + registered accountant)
• Yearly fill the ASBL tax declaration (needs Belgian ID + registered accountant)