News You Can Use - Accounting Bulletin and other Updates/Reminders

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November 9, 2020

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Featured Department - Accounting

SCORE Accounting Staff

Click to view the full Accounting Bulletin which includes:

AP Processing Update & Paying Bills Now
Update Bill Approval Designee for your Chapter or District
90 Day Reimbursement Deadline Policy
Document Meals Please
Form 16: Reviewing Bills and Emails in Bill.com
SCORE Chapter Accounting Policy and Procedures
Chapter FY21 Budgets
Weekly Webinar Schedule

Update Bill Approval Designee for your Chapter or District

Chapter Chairs and Co-Chairs: Please take the time to help us update who may submit and approve bills for your chapter or district by filling out this survey: https://tinyurl.com/SCOREDesignee.

Only Chapter Chairs and Co-Chairs may approve chapter bills unless they appoint a designee either by the position or by the name of the person. This designation lasts until revoked by the Chapter Chair. District Directors can use this form to add either the ADD or another district leader as the person who approves bills for their district account.

90 Day Reimbursement Deadline Policy

All volunteer reimbursement requests for amounts over $25 are due within 30 days to the chapter to aid the chapter in their financial planning. (If you have outstanding reimbursements from FY20, please get those in ASAP before December 15).

Reimbursement requests are to be made by filling out a Form 14 Expense Form. Please make sure you turn all Form 14s in to your chapter in order to give them time to submit within 90 days of the oldest receipt to allow SCORE to honor your reimbursement request.

CLIENT SUPPORT

Field Editorial Calendar FY21

The SCORE Field Editorial Calendar has been updated for FY21. This editorial calendar provides a detailed overview of SCORE events happening each month and tips on how to promote them, as well as the HQ email schedule, upcoming national webinars, Hi-Per Local social media posts, and national observances/holidays.

SCORE infographics, success stories, and blog posts, and sample social media posts are also included in this calendar to ensure your chapter has a consistent flow of marketing ideas and materials all year round.

To view the Field Editorial Calendar please click here.

Upcoming Live Webinars for Small Business Owners

November 12: Navigating Your Small Business through Financial Uncertainty

November 17: Google Analytics 101 - Improve Your Online Business by Understanding Essential Data

November 19: Building Inclusion and Diversity Strategies into Your Small Business

VOLUNTEER SUPPORT

Calling all Workshop Chairs!

Workshop Chairs are invited to a knowledge-exchange session on November 18th from 11am – 12:30pm EDT.

Meet other Workshop Chairs around the country to listen and swap best practices in running successful workshop programs. This 90 minute session will include breakout sessions to allow you to collaborate with others in smaller settings.

Come ready to learn and bring back some new ideas for your chapter!

Registration Link

Lifelong Learning Webinar Series - November 2020

The November Lifelong Learning webinar will focus on optimizing your client success stories and will take place on November 19th at 12 PM EDT.

SCORE HQ's Marketing and Field Ops teams will share the importance of effectively using client success stories, examples of strong stories, how to share these on your websites, and conducting client reviews on Google.

As always, we will include plenty of time to get your questions answered.

Registration Link

Workshop Resources

If you plan on presenting web-based workshops (live interactive workshops which are presented online only), a workgroup of SCORE volunteers have developed a series of best practices to help you produce the best quality workshops possible.

These short 8 to 15 minute videos help you present a professional appearance and get a large audience for your workshops. Whether you are a seasoned workshop presenter, a workshop chair, or getting started doing workshops for the first time, we encourage you to give them a look. Watch them in any order.

View the videos here.

**For guidance on sharing Zoom recordings on the website please view here

**Please note: recorded webinar views cannot count or be entered as workshop views. Only live workshop attendees can be counted for SCORE local workshop clients.

For further questions about the best practices presented here, please contact any of the volunteers involved.

Many thanks to the volunteers who put these resources together!

Peter Hildebrandt, Fred Dunayer, Eileen Buchanan, George Kerestes, Jay Morgan, Jessica Starks, Michael Downing, Stan Segal

CHAPTER OPERATIONS

New SCORE Volunteer Calendar of Events

We now have published a central calendar where you can find all upcoming SCORE volunteer events!

Where to find it:

It is promoted at the top of the Support Center, Communications & Announcements category. Direct link here.

How to use it:

If you are holding a major volunteer event that you’d like to share with the rest of SCORE, you can add your event directly to our calendar using the form on this page. The event will publish immediately after completing the form*.
Check this calendar for upcoming events including: Leadership Calls, Lifelong Learning webinars, Treasurer Tuesday Webinars, etc. By clicking on the calendar day and event name you will find details about the event and links to register or more information.
At the bottom right of the calendar on this page you will see a button ‘+ Google Calendar’ (2nd screenshot below). If you would like, you can click add this calendar directly to your own @scorevolunteer.org gmail calendar. By doing this, your calendar will sync with this event calendar and will automatically update when new events are added.

*Note: SCORE staff hold the ultimate discretion for which events are appropriate to stay published on the calendar.

New Constant Contact Template

A holiday email template called, “Holiday Sales Prep - Chapter Template,” has been added to all chapter Constant Contact accounts. This template features content and resources to help small business owners prepare for the busy holiday season and make the most of it.

This template will appear in the Drafts folder of your account, and please feel to add in your own local content or leave as is.

SCORE COVID-19 RESOURCES

Resources for Clients

SCORE is collecting resources to answer client's critical questions during the COVID-19 pandemic—and afterward. Updates are being made regularly.

Click Here

Volunteer Toolkit

These resources provide the latest communications and notifications around SCORE’s policy and guidance during this trying time.

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