2019 Financial & Resource Monitoring of Cochrane Groups

Introduction

Welcome to the 2019 Financial & Resource Monitoring of Cochrane Groups.

All registered Cochrane Groups should complete this Financial & Resource Monitoring form by the deadline of 20th September 2019. This includes Affiliates and Satellites. It will take at least one hour to complete and requires an internet connection throughout.

Purpose of the form:
The information you provide in this form supports an organization-wide data-gathering exercise that gives a picture of Cochrane’s overall ‘financial health’. It is not an audit of your accounts and the information will therefore not be exactly the same as that which you provide to your host organization funders.

It enables the Governing Board and Central Executive Team to provide information to the public about who funds Cochrane, the collective monetary cost of the organization’s work, and the number of people involved in Group activities.

It supports the preparation of statistics about Groups in order to benchmark operations and identify best practice.

It identifies whether Groups are operating sustainably, highlighting any actual or potential resource issues.

Given its important purpose, completion of this form is mandatory for all Groups, including Affiliates and Satellites. Non-responding Groups may be de-registered at the discretion of the Governing Board within six months of the stated deadline.

Who should complete the form:
This form should be completed by a member of your Group or delegated to someone in the finance department of your host organization. Before submission, it must be approved by the person in charge of your Group (e.g. Coordinating Editor or Centre Director).

Only one form per Group should be submitted!

Information you will need to complete the Form:

Access to your Group's financial records for its last complete and current financial years

Information on staff numbers and sources of staff salaries

Information on funding applications made by the Group

Period covered by the form:
Information is being collected for your Group's last complete financial year: a 12-month period ending at some point in 2018 or 2019. You will be asked to specify your last complete financial year in Question 8.

Only Groups registered before 31 December 2018 should complete the form this year; Groups registered in 2019 will be asked to complete the form from next year onwards.

Navigating the form:
You can go back and forth between pages. If there is a page you cannot complete you can return to it later, but you must make sure you do so: i) on the same computer; ii) with 'cookies' enabled on your web browser.

There is no print option on this form, so if you need to print your answers as you go, please use a 'print page' option on your computer. You will not be able to return and make edits after the closing date of 20th September 2019. Once the survey closes, the Central Executive Team will provide you with a PDF of your completed answers.

When entering figures, please only add clean numbers without any text or currency signs (+ or - symbols are allowed).

Confidentiality:
All information provided in this form will be subject to Cochrane's Privacy Policy.

Personal information: The name and contact details of the person(s) completing the form are requested to enable the Central Executive Team to query the information provided. These details will not be shared.

Cochrane Group information: Information about Groups will be published in aggregate on Cochrane's websites and print publications. Information about individual Groups will not be available to the public but will be shared with Cochrane's Senior Management Team and Cochrane's Governing Board.

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