LEARNING highlights

A set of multiple choice and discussion questions to help you check how well you have understood the process of making a budget for an agricultural cooperative.

• Author/editor:MATCOM / ILO
• Type Document
• LanguageEnglish
• Year of publication1984
• Keywords Self Assessment Exercise
• File "Check out!" Test Questions on Making a Budget

A set of multiple choice and discussion questions to help you check how well you have understood the key concepts and management issues relating to a supply service cooperative.

• Author/editor:MATCOM / ILO
• Type Document
• LanguageEnglish
• Year of publication1985
• File questions

A set of multiple choice and discussion questions to help you check how well you have understood the basic economics of an agricultural cooperative.

• Author/editor:MATCOM
• Type Document
• LanguageEnglish
• Year of publication1984
• Keywords Self-Assessment
• File "Check out!" Test Questions on the Basic Economics of Agricultural Cooperatives

This exercise is designed to stimulate thinking and discussion about how risks and costs are shared through mutual guarantee mechanisms used in microfinance. It illustrates that risks and costs are transferred to neighbors, friends, and the most economically active (but also poor) members of the community. Moreover, the lesson illustrates vividly how the risks and costs facing borrowers increases in an HIV/AIDS-affected environment, where households face extreme and often unanticipated changes in their financial capabilities and needs.

This training packet contains the following sections:

Section I provides a brief description of the Simulation: its structure, lessons, and required preparation.

Section II provides the trainer with important background information needed to prepare for the Simulation.

Section III describes how the Simulation is actually conducted: it outlines the facilitator tasks from start to finish, and provides a view of what happens in each round of play.

Section IV provides suggested information for the facilitator to use in introducing the Simulation, and then in leading a discussion after the Simulation ends.

Section V briefly describes modifications and extensions to the Simulation.

Section VI provides the “hardware” for the Simulation: instructions in preparing player envelopes, scripts for each part in the simulation, money templates needed to create the player envelopes, and the master math worksheet.

• Author/editor:Special Unit for Microfinance (SUM) United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF) and USAID Microenterprise Best Practices (MBP) Project
• Type Document
• LanguageEnglish
• Year of publication2001
• Keywords Agricultural Risk, Hiv/Aids, Microfinance Policy
• File training simulation

A brief summary setting out the main steps in the process of making a budget as a series of checklists.

• Author/editor:MATCOM / ILO
• Type Document
• LanguageEnglish
• Year of publication1984
• Keywords Agricultural Cooperatives, Budgeting
• File A summary of steps in making a budget

A brief review of the key economic principles explained in the self study manual “The Basic Economics of an Agricultural Cooperative”. A useful checklist and revision note.

• Author/editor:MATCOM
• Type Document
• LanguageEnglish
• Year of publication1984
• Keywords Cooperative, Input Supply, Marketing
• File A Summary of the Basic Principles of Operating a Marketing or Supply Cooperative
• File Principios Básicos de Economía para Cooperativas Agropecuarias Una guía de Auto-estudio para Productores y Personal de Cooperativas Agrícolas

The purpose of this case study is to provide an exercise which consolidates all the elements that have been covered in this accounting study guide. You are asked to imagine you are a loan fund manager and are required to produce a set of interim financial statements for presentation to the Board of Directors. The exercise includes preparation of a general journal, general ledger, trial balance, income statement and balance sheet. Answers are provided in a separate document.

• Author/editor:Ledgerwood, J.; Moloney, K.
• Type Case study
• LanguageEnglish
• Year of publication1996
• Keywords Financial Statements
• File Accounting Case Study

This document contains the solutions to the exercises in the six lessons that comprise the Accounting Study Guide.

• Author/editor:Ledgerwood, J.; Moloney, K.
• Type Document
• LanguageEnglish
• Year of publication1996
• Keywords Accounting Standards
• File Accounting Study Guide: Solutions to Exercises