{"id":34943,"date":"2016-05-09T10:03:46","date_gmt":"2016-05-09T08:03:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/?p=34943"},"modified":"2016-05-08T21:04:44","modified_gmt":"2016-05-08T19:04:44","slug":"luca-bisighini-for-member-of-the-audit-commission-my-idea-is-to-set-up-a-common-register-of-every-aegee-body-we-are-going-to-audit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/2016\/05\/09\/luca-bisighini-for-member-of-the-audit-commission-my-idea-is-to-set-up-a-common-register-of-every-aegee-body-we-are-going-to-audit\/","title":{"rendered":"Luca Bisighini for Member of the Audit Commission “My idea is to set up a common register of every AEGEE body we are going to audit”"},"content":{"rendered":"
Let us introduce you\u00a0Luca Bisighini from\u00a0AEGEE Brescia,\u00a0candidate for a Member of the Audit Commission. Luca is eager to put his\u00a0international\u00a0<\/em>experiences, gained while studying in\u00a0Italy, Turkey and Poland,\u00a0obtaining MBA and actively working in his antennae,\u00a0into serving AEGEE Europe\u00a0for its better financial future. We’ve decided to ask some questions, so enjoy reading answers below.\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n <\/a>The AEGEEan:\u00a0Please, present yourself.<\/strong><\/p>\n Luca:<\/strong>\u00a0Well, I don\u2019t want to take some much time from\u00a0the reader, so my name is Luca, soon-to-be 27 years old from Brescia, Italy. I am currently in my second year (and some months) in AEGEE and I finished my studies last month by taking a MBA. Also, I am current Policy Officer and Subcom for the Rainbow Area on HR\/IT. Many\u00a0people define me as a good, funny weirdo. Some others use a funny nickname I got (The Horrible) coming from the AEGEE Universe.\u00a0AEGEE has given\u00a0me some of my best memories and some of the best experiences ever. I will always be in debt with this organization for everything it did to me. That\u2019s why I am so much enthusiastic about it!\u00a0[he smiles, ed.<\/em>]<\/p>\n Can you tell, please, why you\u2019re applying for this position? Which personal and professional goals do you want to reach while you\u2019re on the position?<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n The reason is simple. I was thinking how I could contribute to this special network I like that much in an appropriate way and after few minutes of thinking, I thought the Audit Commission was the definitive answer. I thought that applying to this role with 10+ years of proven experience in the world of accountancy and economics,\u00a0was the best choice, a win-win one.<\/p>\n Personally, my desire is to keep contributing to this association again in a very transparent, clear and hard-working way after my Policy Officer\u2019s task I had. I think the role of an Audit Commissioner overall is not that easy at all, that\u2019s why contributing with a extensive\u00a0economics related experience may help the whole network.\u00a0Professionally, this potential task fits completely with what I have studied for over a decade, not only in Italy, but also in Turkey and Poland. An effective application\u00a0of my studies to\u00a0such a delicate task is what I am aiming for the most.<\/p>\n Can you specify how you\u2019re going to establish and ensure high cooperation with other audit commissioners?<\/strong><\/p>\n If I have to sum up the whole answer in a few words, I\u2019d say Mutual<\/em> Trust<\/em>, Motivation,<\/em>\u00a0addressing continuous Communication<\/em>, critical thinking and Commitment<\/em>.\u00a0I know what it means to work as\u00a0a group of people who has to Audit, to check financial statements and any kind of economic data. I have been doing it for a very long period, especially in intercultural environments.\u00a0You might do\u00a0the best work ever, but without any trust<\/em> in your colleagues, you will never get a team-work.\u00a0In fact, I am a team-worker. I will be there for any help or suggestion, if needed. It is essential for me to contribute to a team-work, motivating every single person I have to work with in a positive and happy way.<\/p>\n Of course trust <\/em>is also built through a continuous occurrence of three key aspects:<\/p>\n What are the three\u00a0core things you want to improve by the end of your term? And how?<\/strong><\/p>\n Basically, I have just one core thing I want to achieve: offering sustainability of the finances over time by addressing a series of continuous controls over the finances of every AEGEE body and setting up an Audit Register.<\/em><\/p>\n To do that we need to proceed step by step.\u00a0First, advanced reporting<\/em>. It may sound kind of trivial, but I am not looking for just a mere report to do at the end of my possible mandate in front of the Agora, with easy numbers and easy evaluations.\u00a0I want more. I want to show an advanced risk assessment of how the antennae are working today with the books, especially with relation to the income<\/em> of the single antennae.<\/p>\n Just checking the book-keeping of the AEGEE Bodies does not guarantee any future stability, especially for the bodies, which are suffering the most.\u00a0We don\u2019t have to look just at our mandate, we have to realize from the numbers the future behaviour of every body and be ready to report every single thing in the shortest\u00a0time possible.\u00a0Last but not least, I recently read an e-mail on ANNOUNCE-L@LISTS.AEGEE.ORG<\/a>\u00a0announcing possible<\/em> changes<\/em> in the status of the certain antennae. From that e-mail,\u00a0I realised, that some antennae are having problems with their Financial Reports.\u00a0Of course, they can still fix their status by sending a written justification<\/em>, but I am really concerned about how we got to this point for these antennae.\u00a0We need to understand\u00a0how AEGEE can effectively help these antennae in an independent, transparent way.<\/p>\n To do that, my idea is to set up a common register of every body we are going to audit. A register with our conclusions and opinions arising from every inspection of every book and provisional analysis.\u00a0That\u2019s the most complete tool we can possibly make together, before getting into making a final report. That\u2019s the easiest tool we and the Audit Commissioners of the future can use as a valid, clear reference for their work.<\/p>\n <\/a>How are you going\u00a0to provide an audit\u00a0quality over AEGEE Europe and the network finances?<\/strong><\/p>\n We need to act in a precise, adequate, independent and fast way.\u00a0We need to realise, that being an independent auditor, means to continuously advise the Financial Director about the right actions to take.\u00a0We need to analyse deeply the books and realise how the finances are mutating over time to address a clear situation and to advise for a sustainable path.\u00a0To do that, we need to set up month-by-month common-decided goals to reach together in a clear way.\u00a0Analyse, comment the analysis all together, make a register of our actions and then report in a unanimous way.<\/p>\n What do you think will be your biggest challenge during the term and how do you plan on overcoming it?<\/strong><\/p>\n The biggest challenge may be the lack of communication some of the bodies or antennae might have. Again, there\u2019s not so much difficulty in making conclusions out of numbers of the financial reports that we\u2019ll have to examine.\u00a0We need to communicate a lot and prevent every possible problem at its root.\u00a0How to overcome it? A better relationship with every Netcom and every antennae is the answer. We need to let them trust us. We will be there to help them.<\/p>\n How are you\u00a0going to establish and ensure effective communication? What is your strategy to keep the motivation of your team up?<\/strong><\/p>\n In today\u2019s world, there are lots of ways to communicate with each other: from good old e-mails to social media, video-chats and cloud.\u00a0Finding a way to communicate won\u2019t be a big deal: once we will decide all together, we\u2019ll easily adopt it.\u00a0I support an idea\u00a0of having an ordered cloud account, where we can work together and exchange every information.\u00a0My strategy to keep the motivation up is easy: being friendly, accurate and on time. Again, the basics of having a mutual trust<\/em>.<\/p>\n You don’t have any auditing and accounting experience within AEGEE. How would you be able to check all locals Financial Reports and do the auditing of AEGEE-Europe finances? Well, you are right, because I haven\u2019t had any official role empowered by anybody (that\u2019s why I have not put anything like that on my application), but to be fair and square, non-officially what you are claiming is not true at all.\u00a0You see, I am coming from a not so big antennae (AEGEE Brescia), where every active person is helping each other with\u00a0every task, especially on a volunteer basis. So, to be fair, I\u2019ve already taken a look at the finances of AEGEE-Europe.\u00a0Are those pro-active behaviours making me an Internal Auditor? I think officially not, but basically I did the same requested tasks AEGEE-Europe has for\u00a0their Audit Commissioners. I am not scared at all to check any financial report coming. Why should I be?\u00a0[he smiles, ed.<\/em>]\u00a0I am just eager to do what I do best with fellow Audit Colleagues. I have experience within AEGEE and my antenna\u2019s board can prove that. I have the\u00a0experience as a MBA graduated student, an accountant. I also have the experience of\u00a0working in intercultural teams on financial accounting related courses.<\/p>\n Why are you\u00a0the best candidate for the position of Member of the Audit Commission? Tell us three\u00a0reasons, please.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Again, there are proven evidences of\u00a0my transparency and integrity: the example of the Policy Paper I made on Migration is there to see. I have been looking for months across all the networks for opinions, comments, every single thing needed to ensure a good quality work that can represent all of us and AEGEE-Europe.<\/p>\n Considering the positive comments I received from\u00a0several people, I think I am reliable enough\u00a0for this task.\u00a0Second, I am a person who is easy to find and easy to talk with. Communication is more than fundamental in AEGEE to establish goals and work together in a harmonious way.\u00a0Also, it is better if it is guaranteed in a continuous way and\u00a0brings tangible results at the end of it. I can ensure stable and good quality communication.<\/p>\n Third and last: I have a proven 10+ years of experience on this matter.<\/p>\n You can read his full candidature here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Written by Dariia Kogut, AEGEE-Ky\u00efv<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Let us introduce you\u00a0Luca Bisighini from\u00a0AEGEE Brescia,\u00a0candidate for a Member of the Audit Commission. Luca is eager to put his\u00a0international\u00a0experiences, gained while studying in\u00a0Italy, Turkey and Poland,\u00a0obtaining MBA and actively working in his antennae,\u00a0into serving AEGEE Europe\u00a0for its better financial future. We’ve decided to ask some questions, so enjoy reading answers below.\u00a0 The AEGEEan:\u00a0Please, present yourself. 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\nSince the end of 2014, the time when I started to be active with my antennae, I know\u00a0what is\u00a0the state of our finances, because we share a cloud account with a special section (a folder) related to our Finances.\u00a0Also, I have been monitoring and advising every single board member about the finances of the 2015 edition of the AEGEE Brescia\u2019s SU and now I am doing the same for the 2016 edition and for the upcoming (in 12 days) pre-event, which we are going to organise before Spring Agora Bergamo.
\nSo, despite any precise role given, I know what it takes and I have 1+ year accounting experience within AEGEE at the\u00a0local level.
\nAgain, to be fully\u00a0honest, there\u2019s no appointed official role of Internal Audit.\u00a0Every single person, who wants to give an advice about any economic thing in our antenna is free to do that. And I did, multiple times.
\nChanging topic, I mentioned that I have attended a Prytania at Agora Kyiv in an active way (there are minutes proving that), dealing with\u00a0AEGEE-Europe Financial Update.<\/p>\n\n