As with most organizations of its size, The Augustan Society, Inc., normally controls it's finances using an adopted annual '''Budget''' approved by the [[Board]]. The various [[Sub-Groups]] normally establish their own Budgets, with confirmation from the Board.
It The Board has been quite some time since the Society last not always adopted a complete Budget, and several changes of staff size years have largely eliminated any organizational memory of how they were created seen the prior year's budget adopted without change or structuredconsideration of change. One hopes that a new [[Treasurer]] will develop and post here a procedure and structure along with the next Budget developed.
It has also developed that reporting to various governmental and private agencies require us to express our Budget in a different format. It may prove prudent to adapt our Budget and accounts design to reflect these external requirements as this may be easier than generating an alternate version on each occasion. Current plans are to use the results of the 501c3 status repair to define a suitable format.
In developing a Budget, the Treasurer is expected to work with: