[afro-nets] New Publication - FIMAT the Financial Management Assessment Tool

[Sherry Cotaco <Bookstore@msh.org>]

New MSH Publication - FIMAT, the Financial Management Assessment Tool
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FIMAT, the Financial Management Assessment Tool is designed to 
help managers assess their organization?s current capacity to 
manage finances and identify steps they can take to improve that 
capacity.
 
FIMAT includes both an instrument to collect and summarize tech-
nical information and a guide for applying the instrument. The 
guide provides step-by-step instructions for conducting a finan-
cial management assessment, developing consensus on needed im-
provements, and integrating recommendations into organizational 
work plans. The instrument has an assessment form with criteria 
for ten key components of an effective financial management sys-
tem, as well as forms for summarizing findings. The accompanying 
CD-ROM includes the entire FIMAT tool and two related issues of 
MSH?s quarterly publication, The Manager, that suggest ways to 
improve financial management.
 
FIMAT is designed for health managers in both the public and the 
private sectors. Organizations may especially want to consider 
using FIMAT when receiving increased funding from donors or 
other sources, decentralizing management functions at the sub-
sidiary levels, or undertaking initiatives to strengthen overall 
management.
 
FIMAT builds on the Management and Organizational Sustainability 
Tool (MOST), a process that MSH developed to enable managers to 
assess their organization?s management capacity and make con-
crete plans for improvement.
 
Funding for this publication was provided by the Office of Popu-
lation and Reproductive Health, Bureau for Global Health, US 
Agency for International Development (USAID) through the Manage-
ment and Leadership Program (M&L).
 
Browse and order this and other MSH publications online at:
http://www.msh.org/resources/publications/FIMAT.html
or contact us by e-mail:
mailto:bookstore@msh.org
 
Sincerely,
 
Sherry Cotaco
Bookstore and Distribution Manager
Management Sciences for Health
165 Allandale Road
Boston, MA 02130, USA
mailto:bookstore@msh.org