New treasurer? Start here

The four treasurer guides on ClubHub, in the order a new treasurer needs them: duties, records, year-end and banking.

Four ClubHub guides cover a new treasurer's job at a Queensland croquet club. This page gives the order to read them.

The treasurer of an incorporated association is an officer under Queensland law, with legal duties of their own, set by the Associations Incorporation Act 1981 (Qld).

The guides work best read in this order.

How clubs do it

Duties. Committee: shared legal duties explains the treasurer's legal duties, shared with the rest of the committee.
Records. Treasurer: Financial Records sets out what the Act says the club keeps, prepares and checks each year, and which size group the club is in.
The year-end. The year-end order is to prepare the accounts (s.59A), present them at the AGM (s.59B), then lodge them with the Office of Fair Trading (s.59BA). Treasurer: Annual Obligations walks through each of these. It also covers tax: ABN, GST, income tax and the ATO's yearly self-review, due 31 October.
Banking. The Treasurer's Guide to Banking and EFTPOS covers fee-free club accounts, card machines, the card surcharge ban and bank grants.

Something not covered here? Email hello@croquetqld.org or leave a comment under any guide.

The law in detail

An officer has personal legal duties under the Act, set out in five sections, ss.70E to 70I. Two reach further: the information duty (s.70H) also binds former officers, and the insolvent trading duty (s.70I: not running up debts the club cannot pay) binds everyone on the committee or managing the club.

The Act sets what financial records must be kept (s.59), prepared each year (s.59A, the financial statement) and verified each year (s.59AB, the signed verification statement). The verification statement is for small and medium clubs that no other law requires to be audited. The size of the club (small, medium or large incorporated association) is set by s.58.

Where this comes from

Associations Incorporation Act 1981 (Qld), sch.2 (officer) and ss.70E to 70I (officers' duties)
Queensland Government, Lodging your association's annual return
Committee: shared legal duties (ClubHub guide)

New treasurer? Start here

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