News and notices. November 11, 2014

Improve your accounting skills

Spreadsheet software can be a helpful accounting tool. © Heiko Philippin
Spreadsheet software can be a helpful accounting tool. © Heiko Philippin

No institution can survive without balanced books. Financial and administrative management are fundamental to any institution. This applies also to eye care projects. Eye care managers benefit from a solid understanding of accounting and financial management as it will help them to work in, or supervise, this important area.

This article gives defines the basic concepts behind accounting for eye care programmes and introduces some general accounting software packages that can be used to for easier and safer data entry, planning and reporting.

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